Yesterday I headed to my classroom.....and if you are a teacher....or know one you can appreciate how overwhelming it is to walk into your room after summer.....everything needs to be taken off shelves and any other storage areas and put back.....and the walls need to be adorned once again with all of your things.....things need to be passed out.....desks set up.....everything organized......and then the paperwork begins;) I remember one time my dad came to help me years ago and it was lovely......such a gift, and yesterday was reminiscent of that.....it was the first time my kids were really interested in helping and got to work with me......and they were SO HELPFUL!! It was a game changer.....what normally takes days took us a day......and it was lovely, I was so appreciative for their help! They are so cute and worked so hard, lugging stuff from one place to another, and back to it's home for the 2023-2024 school year.....completing all the tasks I delegated to them with a great attitude.......I think this is my 20th year at Bushkill.....crazy right.....it is funny I was thinking that that fact is in line with my personality too.....when I was a teenager I worked at DQ from when I was 14 to when I was 24 through college.......and having a mini career of sorts lol:) My loyalty and Taurean routined self staying grounded in one spot for extended periods of time....always.....I also had another problematic (ish ) relationship that spanned a decade before my 20 year marriage so there is that too lol:) I just stay.....a long time.....wherever I am, sometimes that being a good thing other times....meh;-) I digress, sorry;-)......but yeah Bushkill has been a long run so far.....it is a place that is so familiar to me....in the strangest and most comforting ways .....the people there I have known for so long.....through all my spans of life.....I was Miss Pearce when I arrived there and now am again.....they have seen and supported and witnessed it all......As I got my classroom ready and read my roster and thought of another group of kiddos coming my way, I felt gratitude.......Despite the challenges in education on repeat....and certainly through Covid, I have never had to question my love of teaching.....it has been there all my life.....for as long as I can remember......I am the type of person that could have been lots of things when I grew up, and still can;-) but teaching has remained....there are many things, amid the challenges that I love......and I felt excited yesterday at the thought of meeting a new group of 9 year olds on Monday and traveling a year with them......in their stories and lives.....and while coaching is my long term plan....I am perfectly satisfied at the moment to remain where I am till it is supposed to change.......only the future will tell what the plan is.....we make plans and then God does, so I trust it all......feeling gratitude that I get to have a job I don't wake up dreading.....one in my wheelhouse.....and one that makes me feel fulfilled and like I am making a small difference in the world.....So today my alarm went off at 4:30 and it didn't hurt too much lol:) Hoping. my body clock catches up again, and I begin to wake before my alarm again......We have in-service today and tomorrow.....I am bracing myself, it is normally information overload and feels super overwhelming.....I am going to meditate and workout this morning like I do, and get my head straight and go into it all with appreciation......appreciation that I found my way there 20 years ago......that teaching still ignites a part of my soul......that I have a career that allows me to support my kids alone.....that I work with a bunch of people that I love.....all of it.....:) blessed and ready:)
jperuso
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