Trying to make it!!! (and NOT fake it)

Just a quick update, folks.  That's all I have time for this week.  Maybe more on Friday, when my co-workers are taking me out for a drink to say goodbye.

Only two weeks of school left.  I can do this.  I can do this well. 
 JUST. KEEP. SWIMMING!

Tomorrow is my 4th annual poetry slam, as well as my son's 7th birthday.  I need to make 27 designer (mud/worms) cupcakes tonight.  Finals start on Friday, Europe trip meeting tonight, and Europe trip chaperoning 20 students begins in two weeks.

The house is a mess.  The laundry has been neglected.  The gardens aren't all planted (let alone DUG UP) yet.  More time, I need more time.  Preferably 36 hours in a day.  Please.  Put in that order for me.

I should hear on June 14th whether or not I was accepted for the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago.

I'm tired.  Exhausted really.  But the end of the tunnel is IN SIGHT!!!!!!

♥Rose

Quitting my Day Job - Teaching

So, my day job is teaching.  My whole life has revolved around teaching for more than 4 years.  If you include going to college for teaching, student teaching, etc.....  more like 8 years. 

So it is sad.  Sad that I am leaving the profession after so little time.  Sad that I've become so disillusioned with the politics surrounding teaching.  Sad that the government and our society so little value the time and effort we put into molding students lives. 

I will miss them, those goofy kiddos.  I will miss the job.  I will miss making a difference, EVERY single day.  I'm good at this!  Teaching comes naturally to me.  Connecting with kids and making them see the importance of things in the classroom comes naturally to me.

BUT.  What does NOT come naturally is sitting idly by, watching my pay, insurance, and retirement cut by the state government every single day.  Michigan has cut my pay alone by over $600/month this year alone.  And to work for 30 years to receive a tiny $1200/month retirement, with no real guarantee of even receiving that??  THAT does NOT come naturally.

So...... I have resigned from the teaching profession after 4 years of blood, sweat, and real tears.

The plan?  Do something that makes me as happy as teaching.  Creating.  Selling things that I've imagined and then made with my own two hands.

My etsy stores, craft shows, really focusing on the development of my two young boys, my market garden.  That is what will be taking my time from now on.   

I hope I never regret the decision to work for myself, and focus on my children.  :)

Now...................

Who wants to help me clean out my classroom?