Last Day with Kids - Here We Go

It is finally here. The last day before Winter Break. It is also the last Holiday Sing that I will lead as music therapist at my current job. I may be involved in other holiday concerts in my future, but not at my current job. This is it!

I am exhausted, but hopeful that I can get through it and then collapse into sleep without stress for the rest of the day. My last two groups are cancelled due to the 
Sing, so I have two more groups to lead before I am done being a therapist for 2025!!

This is manageable. I need a shower and some somewhat festive clothing that will accommodate getting onto the floor with some of my students. After my sessions, I will spend some time getting my playlist, amplifier, and microphone setup before heading into the world of Sing time.

Santa is coming during the dance party part of the Sing.

That should throw everything off the rails, but it is something that we can do to help our students and our staff through a rough month. In addition to the usual holiday angst that happens, our faculty had a loss recently. Our administrative assistant passed away a bit over a week ago. It was due to complications from colon cancer (something that she and I had shared about in late May/early June) and was not entirely unexpected, but she had her rally day the day before she passed away and came to work on that day. People were shocked. It has been a rough couple of weeks as we try to navigate the things that she did that are not easily transferred to other people.

A visit from Santa will be bittersweet this year as she used to help our Santa get ready in years past.

Tomorrow is a day of physical management technique practice, curriculum training, and work time. I am hoping to be excused from the curriculum training so I can have more work time. I have no need to know how to run reports on IEP objectives since I don't have IEP representation. I do not use the curriculum at all, so there is no need for the training. I am REALLY hoping to be excused.

After Friday, I have three and a half days to get things in better order around here. After those days, I will get swept up in the holiday hoopla and will have less opportunity to do things around my house.

Anyway, it is time to get started on my morning routine before I leave the house. 

My mom and I shared a brief adventure yesterday when I told her that a box was delivered, but it wasn't at her house! After talking to a chat with the shipping company (the guy who was there had my dad's name - first and middle - it was a bit freaky), we found that it was in a stack of boxes in the neighbor's courtyard - behind a locked gate. Mom finally got it back. I had to navigate the situation from 1400 miles away WITHOUT revealing that the box was full of the glue that my mom asked for - well, kinda - she never really asks, just says "I can't find THAT glue ANYWHERE," but I listen and then find it pretty much immediately. The neighbor would have been really confused to find a box of glue in the Barbie stuff. Anyway, my mom got to know her neighbor a bit better, and we found the box of glue!

Good thing that my mom doesn't read my blog or even really understand what a blog is...

My sister, on the other hand...

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