Ready, Set, Grob!

I just ended my 3rd week of school, teaching 5th grade. It's been a roller-coaster of emotions. The balancing act has been strong. There's has been and will continue to be a lot to balance, especially because I have a family and I'm very involved in my church. I have to say even with all the balancing things and the frustration there have been some amazing moments thus far. I'm very happy with my choice to be a classroom teacher. Don't get me wrong, I also enjoyed being an Instructional Aid teaching small groups for intervention and then becoming the In-School Suspension Supervisor which wasn't nearly as stressful as one would think. What helped me and has helped me personally has been God. He's been such a great anchor for me to balance myself in for the past 7 years and I will continue to fight for my relationship with Him. I want to offer other year teachers some advice: FIND YOUR ANCHOR!! Find the thing that will keep you balanced and not going insane. T...

Oh boy, no one said how hard this concurrent teaching will be. I mean I did have one friend who's a teacher in another school district tell me that it would be difficult butman was I not prepared. The hardest part is getting the virtual students to stay engaged...the whole time. The crazy thing is, is that my district uses a system where we can see what websites the students are getting on in real time and we can kick them off and block them, but it's so time consuming and can take away from the in-person students. Granted, it may be harder for me because I go into the classrooms as a sub but man. I tip my hat to the grade level classroom teachers. This stuff is hard. 

    March will be a full year in quarantine for me and my family aside from my husband leaving to go to work, which he was furloughed a one point so we are grateful that he did get his job back, and outings with a very specific circle of people in our families and in church. Church is virtual, I miss my Sunday hugs from those that I only saw on Sundays, I miss being able to get together with a bigger group of people because of our own underlining health issues and because the body count would be too high between the families. Sitting a a computer from 9 to 4 for work and then again from 5:30 to 9:30 for my college classes, not to mention for 2 hours once a week for ladies mtg, then once a week for 2 hours for church and then 2 hours or so for small group. It's a lot of computer time. I took every break that I could to just rest my eyes and not look at a screen unless I had to. I mean I didn't even record as much as I wanted to for my YouTube Chann...