The Beal/Cannon Family: Birthday Weekend!

Things this past week were a little intense with the election shenanigans. I don't think about it a lot but I could feel the tensions people were feeling around it. I was also more tired at the beginning of the week adjusting to daylight savings. I wish they would do away with it already. I was ready for the weekend for sure! It's hard to keep track of which of my students are in person and who is at home and who has taken the test and which assignment students need to be working on. It's a lot to keep track of and plan for. It was parent teacher conferences for my kids last week. My small three are doing great and hitting all the marks in school. I wasn't sure how Ryan's report would be but he is on grade level on everything and is doing great. Corbin is going through a learning curve in Middle School. Some of his grades are not good and it's mostly because of missing work from absences so we had to have a conversation around increased responsibility to make up work and check in with his teachers in Middle School. He will bring his grades up I have no doubt. Unfortunately he is going to get further behind because he was sick on Wednesday and he can't go back to school for 10 days. I'm SO annoyed. I get it but it's beyond annoying. He can only go back if he gets a negative covid test. He isn't even sick anymore so I don't think he could even get tested so he will be home this whole week. UGH! Gabby too, she was also sick and can't go back to school. This year is a dumpster fire and I am over it!

In more exciting news it was my birthday on Friday. It was a chill day at school and my co-worker Janet, who I love, bought me flowers and a cookie cake. She is so nice. Scott also bought me some flowers and candy. After work I went to the mall and bought myself some new clothes and a new coat. I love new clothes. That night we went to dinner with the kids and watched The Sixth Sense with Gabby and Corbin and they didn't even think it was scary. What the! Saturday morning I went to my niece's bridal shower. I was a little freaked out to go because I really don't want to get covid, mostly because of work shame around it, but I went and tried to be careful. My sister in law Christy threw it and she does such a good job with stuff like that. That night we took our kids to the Miller's house for the night so we could have the house to ourselves. We met our friends at Kyotos as is my birthday tradition. I was also worried about going to that but decided to anyway. It feels like a balance between having caution and also living life. Afterwards our friends came to our house and played games. It was SO fun. Sunday morning Scott and I headed to the Millers and we had a birthday breakfast and got our kids back. Tonight Scott is making me stir fry for dinner. Was I spoiled this birthday or what? I have to admit....I love my birthday. Ha.