Funky Ceilli

Happy St. Patrick's Day to one and all!
Two years ago today I fell on ice in the parking lot at work and wound up with 4 stitches in my chin and bit all the way throught my lip. I was really banged up-skinned both knees and my hands. As a result, while I used to love St. Patrick's day, its not so high on my list any more.
I slept in this morning a little bit and probably won't go beyond the yoga daily dozen. I'm tired and a little sore and achy, but that's par for the course. Its Wednesday, and I had PTO last night. I am a nominee for president, and the election is next month. I am a little nervous about it, but what will be, will be. I have a few thoughts about activities for next year (however the election winds up)I loved the Harvest Hullabaloo and Pizza Bingo, and the little things we do like Usborne and bake sales and Tiger Wear work well. I would love for us to have a Stampede night (the local hockey team) where the school gets special pricing for the game and a few other bonuses. I also would like to expand on our Terra Cycle brigades and increase our recycling (sends the kids a good message!)I think we need more major activities regularly (like a scrapbooking night or a night where we make neck rolls and weighted vests for the classroom sensory boxes-and yes, they use these with non-special ed kids too)I would also like to see more parent participation. Right now, its the same 20 or 25 people who do everything-they are the class parents, they volunteer for the events, they bake for the bake sales, they help with the class parties. We had a huge turnout for the meeting last night-well over a hundred people-but that's because the 4th graders put on Seussical the Musical (and I don't think most of the people that were there paid any attention to our meeting).
I am also juggling things with church. I am starting a new ministry group after Easter, where we break down the altar flowers and rearrange them for parishioners in the hospital or are homebound. Its being a good steward and it will brighten someone's day too. I just need to get volunteers. Plus we have the pilgrimage coming up, and there's a lot going on with that. I am not going to lie, I am very frustrated with our interns who are supposed to be leading the youth group-and they really haven't invested in our curriculum. In fact, they really don't use it. At all. I feel like my role as curriculum coordinator is diminished. Then there is the big change with our parish administrator leaving at the end of April. We all deal with change, its a fact of life. It just seems like so much upheaval at the Cathedral.
Today the little man has a dentist appointment after school, so I am leaving early this afternoon. Drop off and pick up from the library too. Come home eat our feast (crock pot corned beef and potatoes, pistachio pudding). Jet off to choir practice. Come home, do a little around the house and collapse into bed. Lather rinse repeat. Tomorrow night I have a lot of tidying up to do since my March of Dimes posse will be coming over to make Easter presents for the NICU babies. Add to it, needing to finish my book for the book group, as well as some other stuff to get done-like catch up on my scrapbooking, etc etc etc. I don't manage the hours in my day as well as I would like to sometimes.
Sometimes I think I'm overloaded, and I felt awful that I only had about 45 minutes of time with my little man last night-and some of that was trying to convince him to go to bed. Not very well or totally pleasant either. I think I could get 24 hours of sleep and still be tired. Supposedly exercise, drinking water and eating healthy is going to give me more energy. I haven't seen that spike yet. What I have seen though is less back pain, and feeling more relaxed.
Unfortunately I am being too relaxed right now and need to get my butt in gear to get the little man to school and myself to work. Erin go bragh!