Oh the busyness of starting a new school year! Learning to schedule your life again after a leisurely summer…or not so leisurely.😏
I had taken a year off mainly because I didn’t want to teach grades 1 and 2 again. I had taught them for 2 years and was exhausted as well as feeling like my brain was going numb from teaching “A is for apple” etc. So I had told someone that if the grades 3-5 class would need a teacher I would consider it. Therefore here I am.
Somehow I was not physically ready to start the year. I thought I was prepared but found out I had to go early and stay late every day for the first 2 weeks. Finally in the 3rd week I felt caught up enough to spend less time at school. And now ten weeks in I feel like maybe I can finally post something again!🤯
The juggle of keeping 12 small people busy and happy isn’t for the faint of heart. Some days I am so ready for them to leave.. make that most days. 😰 And yet they give me so much.
I don’t know how else I would fill the mother love that I long for. They come to me with their stories, their childish–sometimes not so innocent–take on life, their innocence, their aches and pains. No wonder Jesus said we should become as little children!
My prayer this year is that my students (who I affectionately call my children) will see Jesus in me, that I might somehow show them the love He has.
Susie Fehr 