So this is my first post, my first attempt at blogging. I admit its a little daunting to let the world in to your life. Of course I have always said my life is an open book. It's wondering if anyone wants to read the book that's daunting!
In the last two weeks life has changed dramatically. Thoughts, dreams, wishes, and prayers have been merged into the possibility and then the reality of one event. I am sure others have been in this place before on the verge of something new filled with excitement with a twinge (ok some moments BIG twinges) of fear.
Perhaps I should just get on with the story so if anyone does read this they will know what I am referring to! (Yes I know that you should not end a sentence with a preposition, but this is more about what I have to say than having correct grammar! LOL)
This year marks the beginning of my ninth year teaching high school. The first three years I taught Agriculture and the last six years have been spent in a ninth grade only science classroom. (I have always said that you have to be crazy to teach ninth graders and its true. They make you want to pull your hair out one minute and love them until you cry the next.) Now at Christmas I am leaving teaching to pursue an opportunity to love on my own boys and maybe live out a dream of mine.
I didn't want to teach when I started college. I wanted to be a motivational speaker. Travel the country talking to young people convincing them to be all that they could be and all that God would have them be. Then I convinced myself that I should just settle on being a teacher. Nothing wrong with security, health insurance, summers off, long Christmas breaks, etc. I also believed (and still do) that in many ways teaching is being a motivational speaker. Perhaps not very glamorous but what an opportunity to have somebody listen to what you say and maybe, just maybe, take it to heart. In nine years, I am estimating that 1100 students have walked through my classroom doors. Wow. I can only pray that I have made a positive impact somehow.
So the opportunity.... God has been working hard to get my heart ready to say yes. Thanks to the generosity of my mother I am staying home after Christmas with my two precious, lively boys (Lane is almost 4 and Ethan is 14 months old). I will also be trying my hand at a baking business. I have loved baking since I was a little girl. One of the ways my heart sings is to hear someone tell me how great something I have made was.
Perhaps this will really be a road to Sweet Beginnings for me. (That's going to be the name of my business too!)
