So tomorrow is my last "work" Monday for a very loooong time- I hope! I have two more work days left and I'm a little sad. Okay- I'm a lot sad. I've loved working in education- ten years of my life have been dedicated to teaching children and welcoming them into my heart. I can easily remember my first day teaching. I was so nervous! Only to think that they were as nervous as I was.... I can see all of their little faces walking into my classroom that I worked so hard on to get clean and ready for the first day of school. I remember their names and their families and all of their little stories. Then the 2nd year, I felt a huge sense of "Hey- I think I know what I'm doing here!"- only to be knocked down by that one student that challenged every fiber of my being. This little girl had seen and heard more in her 6 years than I had ever experienced in my (at that time) 24 years. Oh, the fits she threw! She was just so lost and so was I. Yet I loved her. And I wonder where she is right now and if she is okay. That's why I love the teaching profession. You love the ones that need you the most and by the end of the year, when she told me that she loved me, that she didn't want to leave me, I realize that for 7 hours- I gave her exactly what she needed to get through another day. I remember them all, really- I loved them all and I hope that they left my classroom with just a little glimpse of how much they mattered to me. And how I hope that they will remember me as well as I remember them...
I'm on to another career in two days. Stay at home mommy is my new title. I'm ready, it is what I wished for, but man, I will miss all those kids.
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I did not know that you were a teacher! I was too before I quit to stay at home too.
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