First day of inservice

Well, here we go! Off to another exciting year in the field of Art Education. Year four. Baby 2. If I keep having babies at this rate, I am not going to want to come back any more...which would really suit me fine. I love to teach, I hate school politics.

But, one load off my shoulders, I am not teaching yearbook anymore. A strange turn of events. The yearbooks were in my room this morning and for a split second as I was looking through them I was thinking of all the things we did and how we could do things this year...then I realized that I was not doing it any more. No more worrying about students not getting things done, or having to go to all home events to make sure there are pictures, or actually taking over lazy student's pages.

*sigh*

It will be good to have a year off from that. I don't know what next year will bring, but for now, maybe I can focus on some things that I always neglect. Things like interacting more with the students in my classroom, entering artwork into fairs, doing my own art. We'll see.

I really hope and pray that I can be more positive this year. I have a feeling the lack of yearbook will help me with this. But I also know that there are some school politics that will be easy for me to complain about, especially in the teachers lounge...may have to avoid the area sometimes if I really want to stay positive...

I have great ideas for this year. I hope that I can follow through with them.

Emmett is 18 months old today. Baby #2 is 18 weeks old. Fun coincidence. :)