Hi Ho! Hi Ho! It's Back to Work I Go...

Yes you read that correctly….I am returning to work!  I will be teaching 5^th grade Reading/Language/Social Studies at Stanley Elementary (about 3 minutes from our house) next year.

Here are the questions I have gotten from the few people I have told….

I thought you weren’t going back until both boys went to Elementary?  Have you been thinking about this for a long time?  I didn't even know you were thinking about going back?  When did you decide to do this?     

To answer them all….it all began on Sunday July 24^th.  I had not been thinking about returning to work this soon until that afternoon.  I had been looking at teaching blogs all weekend for some odd reason and decided to email a few people I knew to find out about openings in the district.  After finding out that they were bringing back 200 positions that were taken away last year and interviewing good candidates I decided that this was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.  Cory and I decided if I got a job then it was fine and if not that was fine too.  I turned in my application Monday night and had two interviews set up by the end of the day Tuesday.  1.  Stanley @ Noon on Thursday 2. Woodcreek @ 11:30 on Friday.  I interviewed with The Principal, 2 APs, Kinder, 1^st and 2^nd grade teachers.  I left feeling very confident but also a little nervous because it was over in 20 minutes.  The boys and I ran a few errands and then came home for naps.  At 4:30 they called to see if I would be open to a 5^th grade position and if so could I come up and meet the team leader.  I headed up to the school (with the boys in tow since Cory was out of town) to meet her and left there with a strong feeling I would be getting an offer.  I finally got the call and it is now official!!!

It's hard to explain the way I feel, because my thoughts contradict themselves all the time...I LOVE my boys and will miss them TREMENDOUSLY (and have shed a few tears here and there about not being with them 24/7) but I truly love teaching also and have missed it.  My number one request when we had Colton and Blake was that I stay home until the boys weren’t “babies” anymore.  Now that Blake is mobile and a toddler I feel very comfortable taking him to daycare.  I actually think he will do much better with more structure.  J  Colton loves going to Mothers Day Out and asks to go to “school” every day so I think he will really enjoy it as well.  I have put them in Kids R Kids Daycare at this time.  We are going to re-evaluate and look at The British Private Prep Preschool in December when Blake is a little older…he has to be 18 months in order to attend so he can’t start right now and I want them both at the same school.

I know that it is going to be hard some days but I feel that everything just fell into place and happened for a reason.  

Love,