Reflections on a Monday morning

As I was driving to school this morning, I reflected that I only have two more Mondays to teach (Memorial Day is the 26th, so that doesn't count).  Two more Mondays.  That made it sink in, along with the fact that we had a garage sale this weekend and got rid of quite a bit of stuff.  I'm going to make it a priority to really begin purging this week.  Here's my list:
Monday: Go through my closet - sort into keep, donate, toss.
Tuesday: Go through my books - sort into keep, Bailey, donate.
Wednesday: Extra day for books (I have a lot).
Thursday: Go through the extra boxes in my bedroom that I STILL haven't unpacked from September and toss/donate pile them.
Friday:  Nothing.  I have a conference at 5:25 with a parent and then Jon is taking me to the beach for a makeup session from our foiled Mother's Day plans.  More below.

Mother's Day- started out awesome, sucked a little in the middle, then got good again.  First of all, Aurelia decided to get up at 4 am, so we headed down to the couch and went back to sleep after nursing.  Then Papi came downstairs, followed shortly afterward by Marley, and made me a delicious omelet for breakfast. (One of the pieces of advice I'm giving my girls on marriage is to be sure you marry a man who can cook!)  Once Ty made his way downstairs, I got my presents (a basket of all my favorite things from Marley - including Rice A Roni - don't ask!, a lovely shirt from Ty, and a preorder for Stephen King's new book Mr. Mercedes from Jon and Aurelia, along with sweet cards from all).  Then we headed for the beach.  And promptly turned around and headed home again when we found that everyone in the free world had beat us to it.  That is the ONLY time since 1992 that I haven't been able to find a spot to park at the beach.  Crazy.
After making it back home, I begged for only one thing - a nap.  My lovely family indulged me and it was so wonderful to snuggle down in my bed alone for an hour.  Felt like ten minutes, but I was reenergized and went down to the kitchen to make lasagna and meatballs for our dinner with Jon's mom.  We had a great visit with her, Jon's sister and Jon's sister's boyfriend (who, weirdly enough, I taught in eighth grade).  Aurelia had a blast playing with everyone.

All in all, just finishing up the year and getting ready for my summer job is proving to be pretty easy.  I'm hoping that the summer is productive and goes quickly.  Looking forward to my Bailey visiting on the last day of school for a week and cleaning out my classroom!  Have a wonderful week everyone!