Isaiah Joseph,

My mind is currently overwhelmed and I can’t stop it from spiraling. I’m happy I’ve been working as much as I have been because it allows me to kind of shut everything out for a little bit. Maybe that could be considered “running away” from reality, but it’s a chance for me to just focus on what I’m doing in the moment.

Today in kindergarten, we read a book on how to catch a leprechaun and then they wrote in their journals about a leprechaun. I had spelled out “leprechaun” for them and put it up so they could easily spell it in their journals. One of the kids was questioning the spelling of the word and told me there’s no way a “ch” could be in there. I made a comment about how some words in the English language are weird and I can’t quite explain them. He replied with, “I don’t know English”. We then had a wonderful class conversation about how we were speaking English, there are many other languages that people speak depending on where they live or where they may be from, and that some languages even have different alphabets. One child claimed to speak a language in which they combined a few different languages into one. That’s one of the reasons I enjoy subbing for kindergarten, there’s always entertaining moments.

I love you so much, baby boy. I’m trying to find some sort of inner peace. Goodnight and sweet dreams.