A Productive Day

On the adoption front, I am still waiting for the Provincial approval to come back. I talked to one of the gals at Anne Scully's office (Faith or Grace?) and she said that it would be signed in a week or two and then sent back. But that was a few weeks ago now. Every morning I zip over to the post office first thing to check on the progress. I know it doesn't really matter when it comes. I still have tax stuff to do, but I just need to know I'm making progress. I'm moving forward. I'm sure others who have been here have felt the same.
On an aside, I've been getting ready for this upcoming school year, and have made some serious progress today. I got a bunch of binders full of everything I need to teach Science 7 this year, but didn't take them home in June (because the are HEAVY!) but I got into the school today (I couldn't get in earlier, because they were waxing the floors), and nabbed a binder. I hadn't even looked at it before, but SCORE! It actually has everything I need. And since I'm teaching 6 new courses this year, I'm going to go ahead and pretty much teach it exactly as is. It seems good and, well, I'll have time to tweak and change things next school year (if I'm not on mat leave). There are 5 Units in the year, and I finished putting the notes from Unit 1 into 4 PowerPoint shows (52 slides, complete with graphics), so I am pretty stoked. I started settling into my new class this afternoon, and Jonah fell asleep on a blanket on the floor for a couple of hours (so rare -- an afternoon nap!) and so I was able to do a lot of work and it's really starting to look great. Aah. A very satisfying day.