hooray

Finally, I have a washer and dryer installed upstairs. I've just washed a load and put it in the dryer...pretty exciting! Pretty sad that these are the things I get excited about now, eh? Hopefully sometime in the new year, I will have some great people renting!

It was a rough morning at work, as lots of kids are awfully deregulated right now. Christmas is often very challenging for a lot of them and maintaining compassion is sometimes difficult for us as staff.  I'm very grateful that the staff are so supportive of each other, as they all understand how fragile and precarious our own mental health can be at times, given the conditions we work in. I have been spending the afternoons this week at the public library with a student who has been suspended from another school. I help out when she needs it and otherwise I knit. She's a lovely young woman, like they all are, and the quiet time helped to compensate for the morning.

Tomorrow is our big Christmas dinner at school, and I hope to be able to eat before heading to the library.

I think I'll watch the corner gas movie and call it a night.

Love, elly