I'm pretty stressed. I'm learning all the ins and outs at my new job and there is a LOT to take in. Workshop style teaching, SGOs, PIPs, planning, grading...about the same amount of stress as my old job, just different. I'm worried I'm not going to make it. But it's much better than my old job so I just have to keep trying.

I'm also stressed about my son. He is having a hard time adjusting to kindergarten. He wakes up every morning saying he is sick and can't go, and I have to drag him out of bed crying to get him dressed and ready to get on the bus. I took him to the doctor on Monday just to make sure he wasn't actually sick and he's not. I leave at 7:30, then my mom watches him and takes him to the bus at 8:30, and she has reported that he spends the whole time wailing and crying that he misses me. It's so heartbreaking. It's only been two weeks though. He did much better today. I drew him a Picture so he could take it to school with him and look at it and know I love him. I'm thinking about getting him a "worry stone" or something like that that he can put in his pocket and rub when he misses me. I'm also thinking of taking him to play therapy because this has been going on since before kindergarten started (about 3 months now). I know I had horrible separation anxiety when my father died and I want to help him with that if that's what's going on.

The stress hasn't caused an episode per se but I've been having more down days recently.