I just took a left brain/ right brain quiz on the internet (so of course I must believe it's completely accurate) and it said I was 50% right and 50% left brained. It doesn't really seem that interesting if it's split right down the middle, does it? I really like to do creative things, but also love organization. Most math and maps are a mystery to me, but I love planning for almost anything.
All this rambling has a point. Maybe. I was thinking the other day that it is surprising that spring is here. (This must be my 50% right brain talking... spring always comes at the same time, right?) Every year since I can remember, my life has revolved around the school year. I have only missed teaching a handful of times this year, but I do miss how I organized my life around the school calendar. This is how I have always marked passages of time. For instance, this week I'm supposed to be really, really tired because I have stayed up way too late every night. This is because I know next week is spring break, and I'll catch up on sleep then. After spring break it's always time to start freaking out about end of the year tests and deal with all the stress that goes along with May. Then I always make a paper chain or some kind of calendar to count down to care-free summer.
Now that I'm home every day, phrases like "meet the teacher night" and TPRI have meaning, but no longer fit into my life. Kinda weird. I really have no desire to go back to work (especially after I realized our new budget would work! Woohoo!), but I am going to have to figure out some new points of reference to mark passages of time. Clearly, my right brain won't let me just look at a calendar. That would be way to boring. But my left brain knows that I can't just hurl willy nilly through a year without some kind of meaningful markers.
Time for some new traditions! Anyone have any ideas? Maybe we'll start with a paper chain from O's half birthday to when the community pool opens. Then waiting for our summer vacation? The funny thing is, I think it's going to take more than one year to figure out some of these new traditions, and by then S-Man will be starting school. Then of course the years will be back to "normal". Starting in August and ending in May, just as they should.
All this rambling has a point. Maybe. I was thinking the other day that it is surprising that spring is here. (This must be my 50% right brain talking... spring always comes at the same time, right?) Every year since I can remember, my life has revolved around the school year. I have only missed teaching a handful of times this year, but I do miss how I organized my life around the school calendar. This is how I have always marked passages of time. For instance, this week I'm supposed to be really, really tired because I have stayed up way too late every night. This is because I know next week is spring break, and I'll catch up on sleep then. After spring break it's always time to start freaking out about end of the year tests and deal with all the stress that goes along with May. Then I always make a paper chain or some kind of calendar to count down to care-free summer.
Now that I'm home every day, phrases like "meet the teacher night" and TPRI have meaning, but no longer fit into my life. Kinda weird. I really have no desire to go back to work (especially after I realized our new budget would work! Woohoo!), but I am going to have to figure out some new points of reference to mark passages of time. Clearly, my right brain won't let me just look at a calendar. That would be way to boring. But my left brain knows that I can't just hurl willy nilly through a year without some kind of meaningful markers.
Time for some new traditions! Anyone have any ideas? Maybe we'll start with a paper chain from O's half birthday to when the community pool opens. Then waiting for our summer vacation? The funny thing is, I think it's going to take more than one year to figure out some of these new traditions, and by then S-Man will be starting school. Then of course the years will be back to "normal". Starting in August and ending in May, just as they should.
I know what you mean about marking years by school. I don't have too many helpful insights because I try to avoid countdowns b/c I'm the sort to needlessly wish life away instead of having fun in the present. But countdowns to birthdays sound fun though or to vacations or maybe just to whatever day you choose (like if you brought the boys home on the 13th, celebrate every 13th). One unadvertised benefit of not being school-oriented is the ability to take vacations during the cheap season. I love being home too--can't say I do crazy big things most days, but I really enjoy Liv and seeing her change/develop.
ReplyDeleteI think the time flys without the countdown :)
ReplyDeleteAs for the right vs left brain
i am an expert- art teacher you know.....
i always tell my students, landing in the middle makes you brilliant :)