November is a great month and a hard month. As a teacher, it's a blustery, indoor-recess, parent conference month. We talk among ourselves about how many parents came, which conferences were great, and sometimes cry on each other's shoulders about the ones that went badly. And there are always a few for which the parents didn't show, didn't call, nothing. I hunt them down.
I am a little pleased with myself that I have an awareness that I need to get ready for Christmas. Usually, I just become stunned and depressed when the Christmas season is suddenly upon me come the day after my birthday at the end of the month. I'm never ready for it, and I always wish I could go back a month and spend time thinking about how I want my holidays to be this year. So, again, I'm glad that I'm thinking about it now.
So my need to be ready has me now hosting an Advent Study Group at my house on Wednesday nights. I'm looking forward to being focused on the "reason for the season" before December rolls around. Maybe the spiritual focus will help me through the good and bad of parent conferencing, as well.
I'm praying for a couple of my friends specifically; one is sick for unknown reasons and the other has lost a mother and has a daughter in the hospital. I pray that they are relieved from pain and grief. In the same breath, I pray my gratitude for my own family and friends who are well, my life, the Candymaker and his son, and the fact that I'm employed as a teacher and I get to do parent-teacher conferences this month.
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