I just realized that I haven't even talked about my new, HUGE and very time consuming "hobby"/volunteer job but the sheer absence of posts should be a good indication that something is up :)
It all started with me addressing our PTA last November, offering to run an after school art program.
The idea found lots of applause and then our Principal said "why not do it during class sessions for ALL grades!".
WHAM!!!!
And so it begun!
The school purchased a program called "Art in Action" which provides a curriculum and some materials and off I went, marching into class rooms, looking at big eyed kids eager to get their craft on.
Class by class, with the help of many volunteers, we painted and created.
About three weeks ago I talked to our Principal and told him I'd run the sessions alone next year, for all grades, every day if he can provide the materials and a room.
One PTA meeting and a $3000 PTA Grant later I am launching a full Art Attack on our school.
And now it's getting busy!
VERY busy!!!
The scheduling alone, the material search and project preparations take hours and hours.
I am in school until 4:30 pm on some days.
I bring my lunch and Pat meets me in the parking lot to drag Lulu from Ls school to her school.
My POOR baby, she is totally getting ripped off!!!
I planed to teach M/W/F afternoons, since Lulu is in school during those times, but of course that is not enough and some classes, like the Kinders, have to have their sessions in the morning.
I drag my poor Lulu with me everywhere and every kid in school knows that I am Ls mom and Lulu is her sister.
I walk through school and kids call "Hi Mrs. C!" "When are you coming back Mrs. C?" "Because of you we are better artists Mrs. C!"
Boy nothing like praise and excitement from Elementary kids!!!!
These comments make me beam with pride and I just want to work harder and harder to squeeze in even more sessions.
NEVER IN MY LIFE did I think I would want to teach and yet here I am, LOVING it!
I have to try and control myself so I don't come up with too many projects at once (all sourced through the thousand of art blogs I subscribe to!).
I could go crazy with projects and ideas.
And our school ... you should see all the art work hanging everywhere.
Sunflowers over sunflowers, amazing Miro drawings and now we are working on selfportraits with the 3rd Graders.
It's mind-blowing how fast time can go by when you are so busy.
My AAA personality, hyper and in super-over-drive combined with my "slight" OCD and my micromanaging skills just woke up from 6 years of hibernation.
It's been so long since I had contact with the "outer world", people, schedules, things to do and date lines to meet.
It almost feels like old times ... just without the wonderful incentive of pay.
But thats ok, we are used to being poor by now ;)
Anyways, my pay is to be able to do art with kids all day long, to be able to see L (even thought I am NOT allowed to kiss her in front of her friends anymore :(
I can drag Lulu along and she is getting more and more used to being in school and her Kindergarten anxiety is getting better and better.
She has used EVERY toilet on the school grounds!
Like her sister she LOVES public restrooms and has the urgent need to "test drive" each and every of them.
I now am working on preparing a huge recycled art project for ALL grades (K-6) and oh, they have to be completed by 04/21!!!
We are having a big community clean up event / Earth Day celebration.
The school has to be decorated to it's limits with recoiled art for that day!
Never mind my NL blog, don't even think about Heart and Soul Works or Ls blog.
If I don't plan, prep for a lesson or blog on my new school art blog then I am most likely out cold in bed, dreaming about my new art room and lots of crafts.
Just within one month my/OUR lives went from busy to ueber-super crazy and I miss my lazy days playing with Lulu, hanging out at the park, SEWING or just doing nothing.
Now my house is a mess, the kids eat pizza that Pat brings home for supper, the dog doesn't know what a leash is anymore and the cat is losing all of her fur???
Plus I will soon have VERY flat bum from sitting too long on this VERY uncomfortable desk chair of mine (hint-hint hubby :), staring at the computer, schedules, material lists, art posts and volunteer informations.
But it's all good and so worth it and I am so excited about this new venture ... I just pray I don't mess it up too badly!
This is a great opportunity for me to get into something very new and so dear to me.
It would really suck if I find out I am no good at it and they tell me to "go home and sit on the couch again".
I have always envied Pat for his love for his job.
He lives and breathes optics and LOVES what he his doing.
He never complains about working long hours and if it wouldn't be for my demanding demeanor he'd probably stay at work until 11:00 pm every day (oh wait, it's 11:06 pm and he is still at work ... but he did come home for supper and brought the Ls to bed. GOOD Papa!).
Off to bed ... I do have so many nice pictures of Lulu and her ladybugs from today, and Dork with bib and baby cap ... but it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
A) It's 11:08 pm and I am SUPER tired and
B) My butt is numb!
Good night!
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