This week has been a whirlwind. The last of our visitors (Lauren) came to visit. Although I was so excited to have her here, I knew it meant that I only had a week left of being stay at home mom Rachel. Lauren had never been to Arizona, so we gave her the usual tour of the state, meaning South Mountain (FREE) and the Grand Canyon (Logan's first real car trip!). While at the Grand Canyon I all of a sudden had horrible visions of something happening to Logan. I mean, there are places where there is no fence, it was windy, oh my gosh he could fall. Therefore I kept a tight hand on the stroller at all times and refused to go anywhere near the edge to get a good view. I was made fun of, but I love my son, therefore I don't care if people think I'm ridiculous. Logan also had a stranger kiss his head ::strange:: and had rude strangers not move on the bus for us to sit down. Really, he was sleeping the whole time and will never remember any of it, but we had fun anyways.
Lauren left on Thursday and on Friday...the L man turned 2 months! Two month milestones are that he is finally smiling while being awake and it's the most adorable thing ever. He's "talking" to us and focusing completely on the person he's talking to. He has also slept through the night a total of one time. Let's hope this number gets larger soon.
Although all of these wonderful things are happening, there was a turn of events in another area. I am getting ready to go back to work on Monday, which is not a happy subject for me at all. I really love staying home with Logan and wish I could do it full time, but I know that there are only six more weeks before summer vacation. So, with the dreadful back to work subject on my mind, I got a phone call from my administrators on Thursday. I was told that because of budget cuts, several teachers were going to have to have an involuntary transfer to another school since classes will now be larger and we will not have a need for as many teachers at our school. I am one of the chosen ones. Completely shocking to me. You see, I have four years in my school district and have already been moved around quite a bit because of this same reason, which I have always understood. However, the reason for me moving before was because of low seniority, which I no longer have. I then find out that all of the teachers chosen do not have low seniority. Quite suspicious. I immediately wrote to my union rep (a quick pat on the back to me for signing up for the union 4 years ago) and explained the situation. She wrote back, sending a copy of our district policy, and guess what, the lucky chosen are supposed to be chosen because of seniority. So, I have scheduled a meeting with the union president and my principal and am hoping that I win the battle. I do not want to have the stress of packing up my entire room once again and moving to a new campus, meeting new co-workers, and making connections with new parents and students. So many of the parents at school know who I am, as do the students. Fingers crossed that this works out the way that I would like and my administrators get some sort of consequence. Ok, procrastination over, back to the paper...only two more weeks and I have officially earned my Masters!
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