Shortest day

Today I worked my shortest day since I began working at Marietta. I know it is Saturday but I had a catering which usually means I will be at school between 13 - 15 hours but today was out in 8. Well this summer, I developed a catering plan that had a checklist with specific positions. I also lowered the pay so that the students were not payed hourly but instead got a flat rate. All of this helped so much. Today was the first time that I did a catering and did not raise my voice. Normally it is pretty crazy and I have to put out about a billion fires (not literally); students arguing, students sitting down instead of working, students complaining, etc. Today everyone worked together and I had no stress, no knots in my stomach, and even had time to eat. Everything is done. I have never seen my kitchen so clean and organized.

I guess I felt like I should share this because I developed a lot of plans this summer and have been discouraged because many of them have not worked as I had planned and I have had to spend many hours trying to tweak them. I was almost beginning to think that maybe nothing I spent my summer on was going to work but I hit a homerun today. It was worth everything to have a day like today.

Thanks NTI!!!