Here’s the card I made for my niece. Echo Park dies, Altenew embossing folder, and some really old ribbon that says “love” from my stash that I used for my cousin’s wedding 15 years ago.
I hope he likes it! Masculine cards are always challenging!
I am obsessed with making these card boxes to house a group of A2 cards as a gift.
The tutorial is from Theresa Brown on YouTube.
A birthday card for a dear friend of mine who is a runner. I love using vinyl stickers from Amazon as ephemera. Once the recipient is done with the card, they have stickers to use on water bottles, laptops, etc.
I can’t wait for her to see it!
I have been out of school a week. I had to have a medical treatment yesterday and my blood pressure was really high, despite being on blood pressure medicine. The nurse at the office told me to contact my PCP about it and my PCP had an appointment for this morning.
While talking to my PCP at today’s appointment, she asked if I was still taking my blood pressure at home. I told her I had slacked off the last 3 weeks of school because I was so busy. Then she asked about any changes to my diet or lifestyle. I told her I was surprised my blood pressure was so high because it usually comes down in the summer. Then, I just started crying, and telling her about how bad this year was, how I had received written and physical threats by students, about how my admin hasn’t backed or supported me or the teachers in the building, etc.
She said I am probably still carrying the stress from the school year. In the meantime she is changing my med, encouraging me to continue my exercise regimen, and to return in 2 weeks.
Throughout the day after I got home, I alternated between being fine and crying, with no rhyme/reason.
I think this school year actually broke me.
UPDATE: Thank you all for the kind words and suggestions. I wanted to clarify that I kept taking my blood pressure medicine, I just didn’t take my blood pressure at home with my home monitor. And my blood pressure the other day was higher than it was during the school year. I haven’t given up going to the gym and I went again yesterday evening.
I feel much better today. Maybe I just needed a cathartic breakdown in order to shed the last vestiges of a very bad year. Sending solidarity out to all of the other teachers out there that we all take whatever steps we need to stay happy and healthy, both mentally and physically.
We have already taken our EOC, but I had to delay a couple of tests until after the EOC, especially since I have the students for 3 more weeks. To help students review, I gave them a packet to work on for the test later this week.
One of my students was asleep. They sleep often in my class, and with 3 weeks left, I am done telling them to wake up. On the way out at the end of class, I told the student not to forget to turn in the review packet. They said I never gave it to them. I told them I put it beside their head on the desk.
At this point, the student doubles down and says that they never got it. I told them they wouldn’t know as they were asleep. Then, when I showed the student the packet, they said, “Oh, I did get it,” and they left. The audacity! Is it summer yet?