Had two difficult students this morning followed by dodge ball for D11 where I marketed.
I'm taking this new student with us to dodgeball and he makes all my other difficult students look like Pollyanna. He is sooooo hard. I think he may be on the spectrum but never diagnosed. He's another one who was adopted from Russia.
Anyway, I'm glad he is going to dodgeball because I saw him laugh and be a kid. He is very serious always and ALWAYS has to have the last word. He has terrible social skills and has alienated the other students by dominating conversations and talking over them. We have lots of work to do here. Poor guy. I know he doesn't mean to and he's terribly lonely.
But, he makes for a very long, long, long day. I'm whipped at the end.
The bad feelings didn't overcome me too much today. I was able to push through. There was one point where the screen door broke and it felt like one more thing to fix.
Then, my mom has made plans on Friday during the time I need to go pick up D19. This, after I told her on Saturday AND Sunday that I couldn't leave to get D19 until Friday at 2. SHE was the one who insisted I didn't cancel students (I didn't want to). So, today, she tells me she can't do it then because she has a dinner.
This means I will have to rent another effin car. I was really pi$$ed. I need to work through this resentment. This is sooooooo my mom.
Then, when I confront her, she acts like she had no idea that Friday afternoon was the plan.
I'm going to go take a brisk walk.
I set this aside until now, but now that I'm writing...grrrrr.
I'm also trying to set aside the jungle in my front yard that I just don't have the energy for...
I'm going to walk.
"You know, it's times like these when I realize what a superhero I am." Tony Stark/Iron Man
“Focus on what you can do, then do it with all your heart.” Lois Wilson
