This school year I started in a new position. I'm half time as a elementary learning specialist and half time in a new position, created this year, completing academic testing for Special Program for our school district. I go to any school requests my help to tests student's academic levels. We're almost two months into the school year and I can honestly say I'm loving my job. I was surprised last spring when I found out I would be moving from middle school to elementary and a little scared. I hadn't taught elementary in over ten years and felt I was just getting a handle on middle school standards and curriculum. And ta da! I completely enjoy and am thankful for this opportunity. I'm learning so much about myself as a teacher, person, teammate, and mom with my new job. I can honestly say, I'm having one of the best years ever professionally.
My own kids are thriving. My step son is in 8th grade, doing well, in Advance Band, and is a typical 13 year old boy. 6th grade has been great for my step daughter. She's in Band as well and can't wait to tell me what she made in Family and Consumer Studies (FACS, formerly Home Ec) that day. Hudson is loving his new daycare. He is even cheerful about going in the mornings and doesn't cling to me when I drop him off.
We've made some headway in our sleeping arrangements too. Hudson decide he wanted to sleep in his own room, in his own bed. I turned his crib into a toddler bed and he sleeps in it all by himself. There is a caveat to the tale - one of us has to be in the room while he falls asleep. Good thing we have two queen beds. Now we just have to not fall asleep in Hudson's room getting him to sleep so we can sleep together. And who said if we practiced 'family bed' and all slept together Hudson would never sleep in his own room until he was 8 or 9? Well, I'm here to prove you wrong. Potty training on the other hand, we are still fighting that battle.
