Counting on being exhausted?

This is a Tuesday Slice of Life for Two Writing Teachers. 

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Dizzying day at school, 

one in just a long line of dizzying days. 

I'm really wondering how to simplify these teaching days. 

Why must they be so long and full? 

We're five years into a new school, and 

I keep thinking that predictability and ease are 

just around the corner, 

but 

there 

is 

always 

something. 

Always.

A lot of it good,

a lot of it exciting, but

all of it 

very, very full,

each day,

long and full.

I haven't been writing enough,

I haven't been blogging enough,

I haven't prepared a slice for this week.

So, here's a gift of numbers,

written by adorable preschoolers,

somewhat jumbled and quite mixed up,

like the lists in my head.