This is the Day

Today I'm going to fill out and send our attendance/grade reports to our umbrella school. We finished school a couple weeks ago, and even completed exams last week. So now we're ready for that last and final step. I've made a cup of tea, the kids have done all their chores and won't need me for a little while. My computer duties are caught up and now I have some time to do it.

I put this off every year. I love the planning, I take a day or two to schedule each day's tasks and print off a copy for each student so that all they need to do is look at that day's assignments and know exactly what needs to be done. And the day-to-day is pretty smooth, no problem there. But filling out and sending our attendance reports is a problem. I always procratinate. Two years in a row, I finally sent them in with our September re-application forms. I don't know why I always put it off, it takes all of twenty minutes, and when it's done, I always wonder why it seemed so overwhelming.

No, I know why I drag my feet. It requires a certain amount of paperwork (the kids' daily schedules from the year) to be in order and in my hand, and my presence of mind to fully focus for a block of time. And it requires both of those things at the same time. I need to have the papers in hand at the same time I have a block of uninterrupted time to sort my thoughts, figure out my filing system, and transfer the information from the year's papers to the form. This is the most challenging task of my school duties.

And I'm going to get it done. Today.