Jr. High

I cannot believe that it has been three years since i first wrote this draft of a post: I'm old, I've got a daughter who's going to the same Jr. High School that my wife and I met each other at. It was in our PE class while we were running, she saw my twin brother and I running together and exclaimed to her friend, "there's two of them?" To which her friend responded, "yes, those are the Baugh twins." not exactly a love at first sight story, but it's ours. When our daughter confides in me, after she clearly asks me, several times, "to please not tease me."about her boy problems, I try to understand her from my own insecure and awkward Jr. High days. I steal the fact that I never grew out of that "phase" from our Abbers'(AKA Trouble) 6th grade teacher who still checks up on her by asking me about her. The last time she came through the library and did this I told her, " that it's not fair that she(Abbers or Trouble) is thriving during her awkward phase of life."
My Co-librarian also has her son in Jr. High School. she made the statement that she wished she could teach her son, "that people are just as worried as themselves as much as he is worried about himself."

"Take 5"

This year in the library, I decided to try a different approach to starting storytime with every class that comes into the library. I wanted the students to learn to calm themselves dow and feel that the library is a safe place to come and find a welcomed quiteness. So I have them all "Take 5" after coming in: 5 deep breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth. At first I thought they wouldn't want to participate and evn make fun of the whole idea, but now they remind me, if I'm still caught putting books away from the previous class. I have found that most of us don't make the time to do something as simple as mindful breathing. It is changing me. A month after school started, I had a dr's appointment and my BP was the lowest since the accident. I attribute that to the fact that I get to "take 5" atleast 7 times a day.I am also calmer and able to deal with the everydayness of dealing with elwmentary schoolers every day.

Make-out, Munchie, Buckhead(?!) Monday

I needed to find some motivation to get out of bed on a Monday morning, so I came ou with "Make-out Monday" and thought that I'd ask my ex to see if she was up for it. What did I have to loose? My CHAMPION Kiddos vetoed that really quickly, so I made them come up with an alternative, which was "Munchie Monday." we now have a standing lunch or dinner date every Monday and it is the best. I love spoiling them weekly. They were a bit slow to come up with this CHAMPION Idea, so while they were still coming up with it, I started to wear a bucket on my head every Monday to help remind the students that come to library, "To change the world one bucked at a time in 2023." his goes along with my "comer el tarro(google this if you want to know what this means in English)"book that was recommended to me by my CHAMPION FAV Daughter, Abbers: 'Have You Filled A Bucket Today?' My "buckethead" Mondays lasted a few months, until I bought a custom bucket-hat with "Fill A Bucket Today" printed on it. That's replaced my actuall bucket. The kids love it and so do I. Take that Monday mornings.

BOOK WARS

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Speech Therapy

I was able to start back at Neuroworx this summer. It feels like I came home, finally. PT(Physical Therapy) wanted to see me twice a week. How CHAMPION Lucky am I? I pushed that luck and go to OT(Occupational Therapy) and ST(Speech Therapy) both once a week as well. I love all of my therapists for, "Pushing (me) for more(Neurowox's theme.)." Tricia is my Speech Therapist and we have so much fun, while still getting work done too. She gave me a new diagnosis: Impaired Response Inhibition(IRI). I'm CHAMPION Excited to put a name on it and have a game plan to get at it too.

Broken

CHAMPION Idiot

when I mentioned to my mental health therapist, Dr. Jeff Robinson, that I was nervous as my ward's Sunday School President about leading the teacher's Counsel Meeting held once a quarter. He reashured me that I'd love it as well well as that I'll do a CHAMPION job by acting like an idiot. He laughed nd said that it'll come naturally to me. That's why he gets paid the big bucks.

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