November 5, 2025 - Wednesday

Another terrible night of sleep in the books! Today was the day that I've been dreading for a week and it honestly did not go badly. We all got up on time (me, after 5 1/2 whole hours of sleep) and got to Main Campus when I wanted to. The tablets all worked, the printers all worked, and the parents arrived in a slow trickle, rather than one huge crush, like they usually do. We were well staffed and had plenty of people in each room, despite two call-offs. Nathan was there to show me how to use the printer because I had no idea how to use this one. Of course, there was nothing complicated about it and I felt like an idiot. But the opportunity had finally come to tell him how I'm feeling about the job!!! And I certainly did not do that. Not at all. We talked about a few inconsequential topics and then he headed back to the admin building and I helped out in the baby room. I'm a coward. I did express that the job is more stressful than I expected, but that's as far as I got. 

After that was over... You know what, I need to add that parents also ALL came on time to grab their kids! It really was as good as it could possibly be. Maybe this was God communicating with me that I should keep the job? I have no idea, honestly. Anyway. After it was over, I got McDonald's for the kids as a thank you for serving in the rooms. They all do such a wonderful job caring for the littles. I'm so proud of them. When we got home, I cleaned the leaking shower, then ran to Home Depot to get some supplies. I worked on the shower for almost two hours when I got home. I'm really hoping this fixes the problem! I have no idea if it will work and we need things to dry before we can test. By tomorrow afternoon, we'll be able to try it out. Fingers crossed! Once this one is back in working order, I think I'm going to attempt to fix our master bathroom shower. It got messed up like six months ago and doesn't get hotter than warm anymore. While that was okay during the summer (not great, but I survived), it is AWFUL now that it's cold. All I want is a hot shower to warm me up and instead I get a shower just slightly warmer than my body temperature and I'm cold the whole damn time. I'm so frustrated with my ineptitude! Why don't I know anything about freaking plumbing?! I've been telling myself that I need to learn for years and still haven't done anything about it. 

I was feeling pretty good after the parent meeting, but quickly realized that I have another stressful day ahead of me tomorrow, doing the pictures for CACH. Lauren is being an a-hole and I really regret allowing her to participate again this year. I feel bad for my class, for not following through on our assignments, but we just haven't had the time! I'm sure they don't really care, but I feel like we need to give some money back to the parents. I thought we were going to be working with clay and getting it fired in a kiln and whatnot, which is all very expensive, but we didn't do those things and parents got way overcharged. I'm hoping to talk to leadership about it tomorrow. Maybe they could credit $5 back for each student? I don't know. I really hope I'm able to sleep tonight. I need some rest. I know my period is coming in the next day or two, I'm completely drained and exhausted from the overwhelming week, and I need some freaking sleep.