Light in the Middle (beginning really) of the tunnel?

Here it is the second month of MILI (read Ides of March) and this is my first blog.  So many times I've wanted to just give up and drop out and then I see one of my sixth graders struggling with things that are so difficult for him/her and take heart from the student and go back to trying to learn this stuff (hum some uplifting song to yourself here).  I read some posts from people who are now in their second year in which they wrote how frustrated they were last year and now they're humming along.

The one thing I attempted was to set up a blog for my team so we could communicate about students we're trying to worksheets 1 and 2 on without having to have face-to-face meetings. . . .  It didn't work.  I'll try something else.