Today will be spent digging in the dirt. SO MANY WEEDS! And I have 4 plants and 7 bushes to put in. It is good to get them in now as it is going to be raining for the next 5 days. Next weekend will be paver walkway time and 'fix the new garden I started time. During the week I will put plastic on the garage floor and do some spray painting...the bird bath, the rebar to support my privacy screen. I also have the railing to paint but I can put that off for another week.
This next week will be my last week of school. Not my last week of work, just my last week of school. The following week I will work on the student progress reports. I can finish those in about 2 days. I hate doing them. I start with the longest ones first, then do the shortest ones then leave the medium length until last. I have 3 or 4 students that have EVERYTHING on their IEPs. I have 6 students that barely came to any Intervention classes this 2nd semester. In hind sight, the padlet that I started as a resource for them to use...I listed the links to extra help lessons for their gen ed work, step sheets, study guides....that was supposed to be as much help to the parents as it was the students, and save me some time, it may have caused them to quit coming to Interventions. They simply did not understand that the Intervention classes were not the same thing as the gen ed assignment help. No matter the amount of emails that I sent to the students and parents. So I had to go by work samples if they were doing better or not. Next year...I am making my plans for next year....
The interview went as I feared....they don't have a SOLID job opening. They have some tentative job openings but they are waiting on enrollment numbers. If those numbers go up before the 1st of August and she wants to make me a job offer then it will be considered. If I don't hear anything out of them then I know I am meant to stay at OHVA for whatever reason. If the latter is the outcome, I am trusting that God has something in the works to help me with my income situation. I will need more in order to afford a car replacement.
I am also trusting His guidance on my housing situation. This place is nice but the summer traffic gets on my nerves. He knows me and will work it out as it should be. I just have to relax and go with it.
I have barely heard anything out of my son all week. This means that he and the wife are getting along okay and that he is also feeling a little guilty about complaining about her to me so much. He did text me that he is getting a bonus from the job he is on right now and if he adds that to the money he has been saving, he will be 3/5 of the way to the down payment he is saving for a house. All I said was, Just make sure your relationship is solid before you do that. He replied, Definitely. And that is all the unsolicited advice I am giving on that. In order to lure him back home, his wife had told him that if he came back she would give him the credit and debit cards except the debit card for her personal bank account. He felt that was a good start and, frankly, I was stunned that she would relinquish them. That is why I said to him that if he was going back, he needed to leave that day. I knew he would at some point and it was not only because I was concerned with him driving in the rain but I wanted my quiet routine back. I didn't want to listen to the roller coaster that is his relationship. I had lived through my own for 25 years and I just didn't want to deal. He will have to decide if he wants the ride to stop so he can get off or just continue for many years to come. I feel as much to blame that he is on this because he is just living the life he grew up with. I have tried to convince him that there is a different kind of life out there but it is up to him to decide if he believes me or not.
I don't hear a lot out of Bethany. She stays fairly quiet. She and Jordan support each other, as far as I know. I don't like to poke at her too much because she feels attacked and gets defensive. I could ask her the simplest question such as, "Are you and Jordan doing okay with your jobs and the stress?" and she would get defensive as if I had said something negative. Yet, I sometimes worry that if I DON'T ask questions and show an interest that she will feel as if she is abandoned by me.
Well...time to get ready to go dig in the dirt. I am looking forward to the end result. However, if I am truly going to 'end' this today, it will be a very long day.
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