Will This Be a Glass 1/2 Full Kinda Day?

Now that we approach our second week of quarantine, I have been forced to think about continuing to keep a glass 1/2 full mindset. My typical weekly days when I wear my hat as Principal for a Special Needs program, doesn't allow me time to think about such things. That's why my job works for me. I don't have time during the day to think about all of the trouble in this world. Usually 1-3 am is when my troublesome thoughts occur. :( We all have trials. If you think you don't, you need to get Real with yourself. The nice thing is knowing we all have trials, so we get through them together.

I woke up this morning on March 22nd or it 23rd? Everyday is mushing into the next. My dog who thinks this quarantine is the next best thing to Heaven (or a tennis ball), needs to go out and I am faced with 3ish inches of snow. Yes, I live in Chicago and this is what can happen on first day of Spring Break. My instinct is to swear, cry, scream...etc but I turrn it around when I observe the snow that stuck to the trees and outline every branch. It was beautiful. I also got a reprieve from picking up old dog poop since it was now covered in snow. That was a win-win. Glass half full

There have been a few first "Back to School Staff Days", at the beginning of the school year, when I have reminded staff that instead of saying, "It's August, we Have to go back to work, say "We GET to go back to work." This can apply to anything, we get to wake up, we get to spend time with our family, we get to drive a car, we get to impact lives, we get to wash our hands, we get to Facetime loved ones.......you get the idea.

That idea came from a book, The Energy Bus, by Jon Gordon, an excellent positive motivational author. We bought our staff that book one year and made it our theme. Gordon uses a Bus Driver named Joy (It always goes back to those bus drivers. Those heroes that are the first smiling faces for our students each day). Sure, some drivers scowl, wouldn't you? But they just want to be heard occasioally and after they are heard, they bounce back and continue on. Joy was such a daily cheerful positive person that the tone of her Bus was positive in result. Positivity can change a bus, a room, a house, a school, a mind. Glass half full.

I don't know what today will bring but I do have a plan. I didn't sleep well last night (the 1-3 am thing), but now I am home and can take a nap. We are quarantined but we can take a walk or go for a jog. I have a goal to eat healthy today (instead of 20 pizza rolls) which are my new fave staple. Who Knew? My daughter asked me last night if one of our activities today could be for her to do my hair and make-up. I excitedly said Yes, then realized that would require washing my hair. I Get to wash my hair. Hopefully she will make a snowman with me too......I Get to make a snow man on March 22nd or is it the 23rd? Who cares....Glass half full

Peacing out for now,

Stay Healthy in body and mind,

Kath