Back on Track
Today was a good day for food. I had a protein full breakfast and a very healthy lunch, and an orchard fresh apple with cashew butter for a snack when I got home from the conference. There is something about apples from the orchard that makes them SO much more appealing than store bought ones. For some reason, they just don’t taste as good. My mission this week is to find a healthy recipe I can bake my apples into; I have TOO many apples!
I am so glad that conference is over. It was a good training in how to use this social competency program our school uses, and I am all about the “feelings” thing, but two days of the touchy-feely, “I’m ok, you’re ok and that’s ok”bullshit has just been overload. I love my job, but sometimes I feel like some people take the boundaries of making kids feel good about themselves way overboard, to the point to blowing smoke up kids’ asses. Kids are astute, and they know when we are being fake with them. I try to be as real to who I am as an adult with the kids, but still be sensitive to their needs and treat them like kids. It’s a tough balance, but I think I’ve got it down! The one thing I can’t do during the day that I really need to do is swear. Obviously, saying “sit the fuck down little Johnny” isn’t gonna fly, so I get a huge release when I come home. I swear like a truck driver. I don’t know WHAT I will do when I have kids of my own and can’t get it out here either- I’ll be the crazy lady in the car with insane road rage, swearing and beeping, swerving in and out of lanes. Either that or I’ll develop Turrets Syndrome. At least then I’d have an excuse!
Wow, do I ever agree with you on this one!!! My pet peeve is the generic “You can be anything you want to be/ do anything you want to do” bullcrap that is fed to all kids day after day; it’s no wonder they develop such a sense of entitlement and can’t take “no” later in life. People (and this includes kids) are limited by many different things: aptitudes, attitudes, physical abilities and just plain lack of IQ.
Maybe not quite what you were getting at but having to do with blowing smoke….Stepping off my soapbox now…..
Congrats on having a good day food wise. Thats a major accomplishment. Wish I could do the same.
LOL, on the swearing part. THat so reminds me of my best friend. She’s a teacher too and when I talk to her after class,she is always cussing up a storm. Then she goes, well I have to say it somebody, I can’t say it to the kids!
I loved seeing the title to your post. I am so glad you’re back on track and love your food choices. I’ve never had apples from an orchad , but I bet they are divine.
YUM orchard apples, we have a guy who brings heirlooms to the farmers market down here, and I buy a big bag full, wash them, and stick them in the fridge. My family LOVES them, and eats them constantly. I was cracking up the touchy feely stuff with kids - dritta
Great post - LOL!