Counting my Blessings

Dear lonely Reader...I am 42 years old. I think that my age is important in understanding why I am so whiney. I have four children. I think that is important to understand why I can be absolutely cranky. I have wanted to be a teacher for what seems like forever. I have tried and tried to find a real teaching job for two years now and had to settle for being an aide....not critical of that...I just need more to keep me happy.
So I am a paraprofessional in this Intermediate School in a very rich area working with SPED students in Content Mastery. The first thing I learn is  1) I am not smarter than a fifth grader !!!!

I decide pretty quickly that I want to teach for real...that I am so certain that I can do this thing and make a difference is on my heart. The second thing I learn 2) What I want and what God wants sometimes are two different things or in laymans terms..."you've got more to learn little girl..it's not going to be that easy, you are going to have to really really really want this"

I go through Alternative Education and decide I'm ready and apply apply apply...The third thing I learn 3) Just 'cause you fishing...don't mean they're biting!

I work another year in CM...I am devastated not to get a job in my district  that I interview for over the summer.

I begin another year (yes my third) fall of 2012 in CM. I learn 4) Humility, patience and silence are strengths that I didn't know I had.

I decide to student teach...I have to go to my inlaws for financial support ...I learn 5) People love me better than I ever dreamed.

I am allowed to student teach with my friend...
She is going through Chemoterapy and not only does she help me, but I am allowed to help her and take a burden from her in her classroom...The last thing so far that I have learned 6) God knows better...I am having the best year of my life...I am absolutely the luckiest unemployed teacher there ever was...ever.

Janet Taylor teacher extraordinaire...signing out.