Waiting for Spring

It's May 2nd, and waking up to 40 degree weather with 70% humidity is not my favorite weather in "Mid-Spring". Every morning I run my little starter trays to the back patio with bare feet stinging on the brisk, and sometimes wet tiles. They have been growing well, the tiny cherry tomatoes definitely doing the best, the long romaine and asian greens also growing well. The basil didn't make it, I don't know why, they sprouted, and didn't grow much past that stage.
Our last few weeks have been something in between pandemonium and productive busyness. Our pre-marriage counseling classes have hit the mid-point and now we are heading towards the last two weeks of classes. The wedding planning have gotten a little ridiculous, we have a four page, double-sided list with approximately 500 things we need to do between now and the wedding. We are also trying to pack up to leave Boise by May 14th, so we can get down to California. All of this while subbing full time in the Boise school system.
Subbing this spring has been sort of a roller coaster of work, some jobs being duck soup, and others leave me practically exhausted. Some jobs: Band teacher, Orchestra are really easy, and sometimes incredibly boring (when the band is out at a concert and you have 2 or more periods without students). On the other hand, most of my jobs are rather difficult, and require lots of classroom management, and some old-fashioned discipline. For example, I had taken the job "detention monitor" Thinking it would be cake. It wasn't. Long story short, the principal got involved and took the student away.
My favorite jobs are the full classroom 1st graders. Reading to them, teaching spelling, cutting and pasting, recess... 1st grade is the best. If you can quiet a whole class by threatening to not give them a shiny star sticker, sign me up. Besides that, 1st grade also offers students that have better behavior then kindergardeners, and are still so small and fun that you don't get burned out like with middle-schoolers.
Laina is having her wedding shower this morning. She is very excited, and has been spending the morning in anticipation. I am not invited.