Bad day at work

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Today was the kind of day that goes slow and fast all at the same time. It was probably the most chaotic terrible day anyone who has worked in education could only really visualize in their nightmares. I mean it could have been worse, it could always be worse but the amount of chaos and bad behaviors were at another level. Today was a leap day as we all know so of course we had to have leap day activities, that in itself isn't so bad. It's everything else about the day that mounted. We had a new student (the poor kid was not prepared for this level of chaos), we are also celebrating Dr. Seuss all week, we had an actual leap year birthday for one of our kids (he also has a twin brother in another class), then they decided to throw on an added lockdown/evacuation drill during a time super close to the end our encore class (encore is PE, art, music) which means we were close to transitioning between rooms. The kids were terrible all day. The birthday boy seemed to think we should have to deal with his terrible behaviors because it was his birthday. I know I'm not his favorite person because I get after him a lot because he's always in everyone else's business and doesn't listen to the directions himself while tattling on everyone else. They chose one of the coldest days to do this drill where we had to go outside with the kids half of whom didn't have anything on their arms and the kids were terrible not realizing if this was the real thing how much danger they'd be putting us in or maybe knowing and not caring. Honestly, I'd probably have to kiss my butt goodbye if this were a real drill because they'd lead the shooter to us. They were giggling and goofing around and being loud not caring at all how serious this situation is. We explained it to them beforehand and told them how serious this was and how we shouldn't be scared but that following directions was important so we know what to do in the event of a real situation but of course once again they didn't care. All day long these kids were loud and didn't listen and the poor new student seemed overwhelmed. She told me that this was a weird first day and I told her that our friends weren't being very good role models for what we should be doing and that not all days are THIS bad, I failed to mention that they are usually bad but not quite this bad. It was bad enough that the teacher had to walk out to take a breather before coming back in and addressing a situation. I yelled all day long. I think I upset one of my friends when she told me she wasn't being bad and I informed her I saw everything and I knew better. She's one of my buddies that I feel relies on me for support and love but I try to be fair and because I love her I feel the need to correct her behavior. She can be super sweet but she's sneaky and doesn't always listen the way she should. I was done with all of the behavior today. She had never seen me get on her quite like today and part of me felt bad but I know I wouldn't be doing her any favors by allowing that behavior to continue. I think it hurt her but in that moment I didn't care it wasn't until later I started feeling a bit bad for how I spoke to her not for what I said. I snapped in a way I don't usually snap but today was overwhelming. Once we got back to the classroom it got worse and the buddy I work with was struggling to get ready so I could get out the door in time. I was a little later getting out today but still got out in enough time for my husband to be able to get me home and go back into town for his second job. It was an insane day all around.