Ooffff, it’s been a week! Happy Saturday, all.

Weather. On Monday and Tuesday we had weather in the high 70s! After school, my kids rode bikes with neighbor kids, kind of late into the evening and it was fabulous. I took the blanket out, poured myself a glass of wine and sat outside, watching the kids and enjoying a beautiful spring evening.

Meanwhile on Thursday, I left work, and it was snowing. This weather is WACKY! On Friday, it was crisp and sunny. And today, more of the same.

Spring is in the air regardless of snow.

I started wearing my spring stuff! Short sleeve blouses and block heel shoes!

I noticed I wore a lot of red, coral, and white this week… Perhaps I was trying to wake myself up with brighter colors.

Self. Because of the time change I was moving at a snail’s pace at work. And at home. I gave myself early bed times, and yet did not feel my sharpest. BUT! I went to the gym twice (Tuesday and Thursday). This was my luteal phase week, too, so the bloating, the hormonal fatigue in addition to time change fatigue. Interestingly, mood-wise I was okay. I attribute not feeling down or rage-y to exercise.

I also deleted Substack from my phone. I realized I was spending too much time on it and, while I liked the articles, it felt a lot like being on social media. So, no more Substack on my phone.

I added Chevron and Lockheed Martin to my investments.

Work was intense. Finished one unit, and started a poem with my Spanish 3 honors. With Spanish 2 students we are in the weeds of using two past tenses in one sentence. One of the hardest grammatical concepts in Spanish. We need lots of practice.

In spite of work being intense, I feel satisfied with the types of lessons I created and how students responded to the activities. I did well by me and I did well by them.

Related to work. This article on ambition from The Purse made clear why I sometimes day dream of stocking shelves at Costco or delivering for Amazon.

Family. My son went to jiu jitsu three times and my daughter had her weekly piano lesson. Lately, she has been sitting down at piano on her own accord. I wonder if that is because she knows her lessons are coming to an end.

We decided that this June, when the school year ends, she can stop piano lessons. We have tried to convince her to continue and she wants to take a break. I am sad, of course, but I also want her to make her own decisions. T and I are also tired to be cajoling her to do piano.

Spring break. Is still happening!! I don’t think it will snow so much that they have to close the school but, you just never know. I remember in 2016 we had snow days at the end of MARCH.

This weekend…

1. Go through kids’ clothes and see whether warm weather stuff even fits them anymore.
2. Clothes that are too small: donate/send off to be recycled
3. Go through my closet, weed out pieces that are too small or just not comfortable.
4. Call mom
5. Put away laundry
6. Pick up the house
7. Read “What Kind of Paradise”
8. Drop off three pairs of work pants to be hemmed (this is for my “work uniform” initiative)
9. Go swimming
10. Exercise Saturday and Sunday mornings
11. Sunday: a visit to Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Our classical station, WNYC is doing an event where the kids can touch and try to play musical instruments. It’ll be a whole day kind of trip. Broolyn is about 1 hour away from our house.
12. Watch a movie+spend time with my husband.
13. Sketch out a plan for our spring break road trip (what to pack, snacks to bring, etc).