Summer has been pretty much over for us for a week. I didn't do as well as I hoped keeping up with this blog. Oh well. We had a wonderful summer. Even when I'm exhausted and crabby, I still remind myself that I am very blessed.
Tomorrow Shelby starts kindergarten in Mrs.N's class with 2 of her friends from Little Leopards and 2 new friends she made this summer at her day "camp" plus 12 other new faces and future friends. I still distinctly remember the day I learned I was pregnant with her and the day 7 months later that Dr. W told us we needed to go over to the hospital, the baby needed to come TODAY...the ride up the elevator to the 3rd floor, how I was received by the nurses, what was said , what was done, the song that was playing in the delivery room as they delivered her , seeing her for the first time....( then it gets pretty foggy) ...but then I start to remember again. It was a wonderful, amazing, joyful day.
Tomorrow will be another wonderful day , likely etched in my memory forever. I won't be able to sit and dwell on it as , of course, I have a responsibility to 80+ other students starting their first day of 9th/10th/11th/12th grade. But I will be thinking about her and I'm excited to hear what all she has to tell us at the end of the day !!
Tomorrow is also my first day in my new classroom. This is the first time I have a classroom all to myself!
It's great! I'm so thankful that my first 2 years of teaching are behind me. This year won't be EASY, but the stress of being a new teacher and being a travelling teacher is gone. I'm still anxious-- but I know it will all be ok.
Hope all the other first days of school go well tomorrow and everyone will have memories to treasure forever.....
