Sunday, March 1, 2015

You're Never Too Old...

This is my first blog. My first post on my first blog. Hopefully I'm doing it right. Luckily I have a wonderful mentor to help me. Shout out to Crystal!
I'm excited to join this community of educators via the internet. As a fairly new teacher myself, I'm amazed by my colleagues and their insight and abilities. I've been a 2nd grade teacher for three years now and I can honestly say I love my job! So I'm eager to read other posts and see what everyone else is doing in their classrooms.
Full disclosure: I'm new to this profession, but I'm no kid. I'm 50+ years old, with two grown children and an amazing husband who financed me through graduate school a few years ago, just as our oldest daughter was getting ready to go to college. I worked as a paraprofessional in my daughters' elementary school for a few years and I felt I had found my calling (too cliche? corny? but true!). So I did it...kept on working while going to school at night. I sat at the kitchen table doing homework with my kids. I cried to my husband when it felt overwhelming, when I doubted myself and thought I couldn't do it. I rethought the whole thing when medical issues arose and I had to have some surgery but luckily I was okay. I persevered and here I am. Teaching and blogging. 
I'm looking forward to sharing with you this month.

5 comments:

  1. Of course you're never too old, and I'm so glad you're here! And how lucky you are to do this work with a mentor by your side. You clearly have the "stuff" to persevere - that will set you up just right for sharing your stories over the next 31 days. Hooray!

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  2. Welcome to SOL. I'm sure you will persevere here, too. Words give your thoughts and feelings a place to make meaning out of the small moments of your life. Enjoy the ride.

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  3. I entered the profession in much the same way. Now 56, I wouldn't change a thing about the way I've lived my life. It is really fun to turn to women my daughter's age to help me learn. I recall a math class I took in my teacher cert program, my son on one side of me at the kitchen table and my husband on my other side, me in the middle crying!!

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  4. Welcome - both to teaching and to the life of a blogger.

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  5. Very impressive! WOW! What a role model for your children - both at home and at school...find your dream, make it happen. Welcome to slicing!!!

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