Crunch time...

My husband was standing near me the other day after dinner, and we were just having a conversation...

J: "Do you realize that less than a month from now..."

E: "DON'T SAY IT!!!"

J: "HAHAHAHA!"

E: "SERIOUSLY!"

J: "You'llbebackinwork!!!" (Rushing to get it out before I could stop him)

Yes. That time has begun. The countdown I hated as a child and it still bugs me to this very day. Interestingly enough, when I first considered teaching, I said that I didn't want to be one of those teachers that lived for summer break. Then I realized that, summer break is an incentive to keep teaching :-p. You need that time to recuperate from your year!!!

I love my job. I teach seventh grade special education in a nearby county. This year I might be teaching seventh and eighth grade special education. This will be my fourth full year teaching. I've done 3 1/2 (taking over for a teacher who was fired). I've taught 3 of those years in underpriviledged, country schools. I've learned so much from each student I've worked with. (Seriously though, I have some great stories about my kids...some that made me laugh, some that made me cry and others that made me go doh! why am I teaching?)

I come home some days and cringe about all the work I have, all the IEPs I have to write, and all the phone calls that I need to make, but if it came down to it, you would hear me say I love to teach.

However...that doesn't mean I want it to come so quick! I love summer, even if I am dying of boredom and ready to go back when August hits. It's just I know that the year will go by in a blur and I get so nervous about what the year will bring to me!