Well, its that time again and although I am REALLY excited to get back into the swing of school, meet my new kids, try out all the things I learned at I Teach K, etc., etc., etc.  I know its not going to be easy.  Even if I  had the “perfect” class I am still very hard on myself and push myself to be a better teacher everyday.  It’s not going to be easy.  I have promised myself that this year I will blog more during the school year and I know it’s not going to be easy (I can attest to that right now as I just want to crawl into bed at 7:30 p.m. after working in my room all day)!  I have learned that balancing it all – wife, mommy, teacher, friend, daughter – is not easy.  But through all this “hard work” I have learned that IT IS WORTH IT! 

When I saw this it was love at first sight.  I know that in the “not going to be easy time ahead” I sometimes need a reminder.  So I used this image to create a new desktop background for my computer.  To me this just said “pair me with some chevron” so I did.  Here’s my new background: