Mother's Day

My Tuesday class was packed to the gills......it was no surprise that Thursday's class would be smaller....Cinco de Mayo. Our country's excuse to go out drinking! It's not even Mexico's independence day....that's in September! I had about 20 people in class.....not too shabby but for a week night, especially lately, not that great. I still had fun, though.

Today, for Mother's day, I was sure I would have a smaller class. Really, most people are going to take the day off to go to brunch, take their mothers out, take the day off. Me? I was ready to go. Especially since my morning was not great.....and it caused me to have several blips in class. Oh well. I am coming to realize that my mood, my state of mind, can really affect my performance in class and I have to get better at really shutting my mind off to whatever is going on at home and focus on the class.  We had fun, and there were many of my die hard regulars, both moms/not moms, and they made it fun. I had a brand new participant, as well as a lady who comes down from SF because my class is only one of two on the entire Peninsula that has a Sunday class. She is an awesome participant and really gets into the class.

After class, I had hoped to have my family do SOME housecleaning, and was pleasantly surprised to see Cassie in the bedroom working on a "list" of chores that came in her card that she made at school. The card had a pocket with individual pictures of a child doing chores, like folding clothes, making the bed, putting away dishes, putting away toys, etc. She was going through each picture card and doing the chore one by one. She had taken her clothes out and was re-folding each item of clothing. She then made my bed, pushed the button on the dishwasher, picked up some toys......She wouldn't stop until she finished all the cards!


Alex was in his room cleaning it, vacuuming, and doing a load of laundry. I just wish that all this would have gotten done without the drama of the morning. Teenage boys......I shouldn't be surprised at the level of narcissism with them but really? I never want a repeat of the way I was treated this morning. Just so frustrating.


Took Mom to dinner. Service was crappy. Not a good experience at all. Ended up with the manager giving us 5 free dinners on the next visit. I did get some nice pictures, though. All was not lost.


Last Mother's Day, I remember being in excruciating pain in my upper back. All I wanted was to go to Kimi's BC and BP classes. I had to skip BP, went to combat and couldn't finish. Kimi gave me a back massage after class but I couldn't get in for a massage till the next day. And today? Taught my own BP class. Very cool.


This coming week will be interesting....no school tomorrow but in a summer bridge planning day in Cupertino. I begin teaching at PAC on Saturday. I have to begin assessing my students. I am so tired right now I can hardly keep my eyes open. Need to head to bed. I really hate how quickly the weekends pass. I am counting down the weeks until summer break. I am certainly going to enjoy this one.