It has finally happened, the World has gone BANANAS!

Feeling nostalgic in my classroom Thursday 2020...Go BULLDOGS!

On Monday morning 16 March 2020 I walked into my school building and a cloud of uncertainty. None of my colleagues thought when we left on Friday, we'd be coming back to no students. I spent the work week in my classroom diligently working on turning my normal daily routine with students into a totally digital learning setting but every second, those babies both present and former, were at the front of my mind. I miss their noisy faces. It was great having the luxury of a potty break (with plenty of toilet paper) whenever I needed one, but I'd have gladly traded it for halls filled with our funny, annoying, delightful little human creatures. The World is going to look different when we come out of this, y'all. All I can hope is that different will equate to better.

I've been preparing all week for what seems to be the eventuality that I might not go back to a brick and mortar school building for the rest of the year, all the while lying awake at night contemplating our ever-changing definition of "normal". It was stuffy in the house last night, as Spring slipped in just the way it always does. I felt as if the walls were closing in around me, the too warm air trying to suffocate me. I got up and opened windows sometime after midnight. No street noise. The only sound I could hear was a fat frog waking up from winter's sleep and letting me know he was still hanging out in the pond out back. Had I told everyone what I needed to say? Have I apologized to the people who deserve one from me? What bags am I still carrying that it is way past time to put down? These questions bounced around in my brain as I attempted to fall asleep. Exhaustion finally won that battle but from the moment I woke up today, the questions without answers and the crazy uncertainty of the times came back in full force.

On the other side of this, I want the World to be a better place. I hope that people will have "fresh eyes and more patience" with one another. I hope we will love each other and our Earth more and obsess over our differences less. And may we finally, finally realize that every role, every job, every face, heart, and mind has value. 

Oh, and please stop hording the toilet paper FFS! Nobody needs to have enough toilet paper to last them till the end of time! Also, keep making the funny memes! We need to be able to laugh now more than ever!