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I haven't posted since June.

I have not accomplished any impressive curriculum projects. I have not even updated my Teachers Pay Teachers store in months.

The reality - which I'm sure all other teachers feel - is that I don't have a single ounce of energy to expend on anything extra. I have nothing more to give outside of my coaching responsibilities and teaching my three classes. 

I want to create amazing materials for my readers, but there has not been a single weekend when I felt I had the energy for it. I work out 4-5 times a week, and still, I have no energy to do anything beyond the bare minimum. 

For me, its a rare form of self-punishment to keep myself from being creative or from building new things. 

But that's where we are at. We are surviving.