A Day at School

Here I am at work, my students are doing a long worksheet on the Civil Rights movement, I've answered all my emails and entered all my grades, I've exhausted every possible home search on HAR.com, so now I have a few minutes to write a little bit.
Yesterday at our kids' Bible study, a friend made the comment, "During pregnancy and immediately after giving birth are not good times to make big decisions." That really hit home for me. Right after giving birth to Laney, I was ecstatic about how precious she was (is), that she didn't have galactosemia, and that I got to be home with my 3 girls for a whole 6 weeks. Probably not the best time to decide to quit my job. Now that I'm back at it, it's really not that bad. Yes, I have complained about it alot, but through this, my mindset has changed, and I truly feel thankful for my job. It is a blessing to have a job that only takes me away from my kids for 2-3 hours per day, and what a blessing that my girls have two grandmothers who don't work who are more than happy to take care of them in my absence. My girls are not suffering at all from me working, in fact, it's hard for me to admit, but they might be even better off, getting those special times with their grandmas and all the wonderful wealth of love and knowledge that their two grandmas provide. Now that my job is very uncertain, I find myself praying that God WILL give me my job back!! What a change of perspective. I hope after all this, I will be much more reluctant to complain about my job, and instead look at all the positive things it provides for me and my family:
*the chance to move to a bigger home for our growing family
*the opportunity to involve our parents very closely in our family
*the blessing of my kids getting to benefit from their grandmas' love & knowledge on a daily basis
*the chance for the Lord to use me in the lives of these high school kids every day
*the blessing of being my husband's helper
*health insurance and retirement benefits
*the blessing of missing my kids, so that I value my time with them so much more when I get home

Hopefully I will come back and read this list and add to it whenever I feel like complaining about work. Besides all that, I feel like the Lord really has answered my prayers by keeping me at this school for all these years. I want to be where He wants me, and it's seems pretty apparent that He has wanted me here, and hopefully will provide so I can stay here at least one more year. I'm eager to see what He is going to do.

Our poor house is in complete chaos... we are painting walls, cleaning out closets and loading boxes in the garage, fixing things, changing lightbulbs, moving furniture around, you name it. The final touch will come Friday when we're having laminate installed in our living room. It was going to cost the same as re-carpeting the whole house, so we figured why not? I am excited to see how it will look. We always wanted laminate while we lived here, but never got around to it, so it's kinda sad that we're going to get it done right before we move, but I'm excited for the next family who lives here to have pretty floors. Hopefully by Saturday morning, our house will be officially on the market!

Okay, the bell is about to ring, so I guess I better take up the worksheets. I love worksheet days!