Today grades are due! In the past I would be up late at night/early morning still grading papers so I can input grades by the 8:00 am deadline, beg for an extension, roll my eyes at the 10:00 am extended deadline (um, did they forget I’m a teacher so from 8:00-10:00 am, the extension window given, I’m TEACHING!), beg for it to be until 12:30 pm so I can use my lunch time, get them done, teach the rest of the day, and then go home and crash from exhaustion!
Not this year! This year I got my grades completed by Tuesday morning!
Beep! Beep! Beep! I look at my phone and see it is 4:30 am. I hear the beeping so I assume Tessie’s blood sugar is either high or has lost signal. 157. In range. Beep, beep, beep! I go to her room to see her pump is completely out of insulin. I head to the bathroom, splash some water on my face to wake up, and gather all her supplies for a pump change. Thankfully she stays asleep for all of it, not even a flinch when the needle goes in. She wakes up as I am walking out, “Thank you, Mama.”
“You’re welcome, my girl.” She will be the only reason I am awake at this time and not complain!
Craziness of Being a Kouts 
What a lovely post celebrating the love between a mother and daughter. Congratulations on getting your grading done early!
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How impressive that grades are done! Tessie is lucky to have you! A positive your post is done also, I guess tonight might be your night to crash!
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I was so like that with grades too! You’d think we’d learn! I was also sooooo excited when I would have them done anytime before midnight the day before they were due. Like I was a superhero, lol. So I’m so impressed with you getting then done before today!
Also, your paragraph about your daughter just warmed my heart and made me smile.
Have a great day!
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See, maybe you aren’t a procrastinator after all!
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Congrats on finishing grades and being the best Mama-nurse!
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I literally have thought about you every year since we met and report cards are due! I remember being at Edgewood one night when you, Pam, and I were working until, who even knows when, and you were saying that you wake up super early or get an extensions for report cards and I got a bought of anxiety just thinking about not having them done! SOOO happy to hear you got them done and happy that Miss Tessie slept through her pump change! ❤
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You are way on top of things this year with SO much on your plate!
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I thought it was going to be an alarm you set days in advance anticipating needing to get up early to do report cards. Murphy’s law… why would you get a day to “sleep in”? Tessie is lucky to have you!
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Oh, those beeps! I would sometimes hear those beeps in the wee hours of the morning too. My phone would be hooked up to students CGM’s and my phone would beep at night if I did not turn off the volume. Glad your Tessie slept through the pump change. Just hearing “Thank you, Mama” must have melted your heart!
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Tuesday morning? Its like I don’t even know you any more!! Well done Kouts! Tessie couldn’t have picked a better person to be on her side through this journey. You are so amazing with her, and she is so brave!
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Awe Jenny you are such a good Momma. So glad you finished early with grades!
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