Lift Huge Weight Off Shoulders: Ease Gently Down

I met with a local teacher yesterday in the hopes that she’ll welcome in me, a complete stranger (well, I do go to school with her co-worker) into her classroom full-time for 13 weeks.  She said yes.  Bless her.

I feel so utterly relieved to have my student-teaching set up I feel like prancing.  Turns out, unlike every other teacher in this area, she does not have 15,678 helpers each day in her classroom, and sees the benefit of having me there to help, and is even into evaluating me when I do a few lessons on my own.  Few.  And I even forgot to tell her she gets a free 3-credit class out of the deal!

Something funny happened in the conversation, though.  I’m not quite sure how it happened - first I was explaining how I’d be needing to take a week off at the end of January when the baby comes, and the next thing I know we are talking about chlomid and injectibles and the stress of TTC for so long.  Turns out she and her husband tried a long time before they conceived their twin boys, who are now grown.  To put it mildly, she’s quite friendly, and although I felt a bit exposed at sharing all this stuff with someone I had just met, she seemed to view it as just getting to know one another.  Whatever.

Now crossing huge, monstrous thing off my “to do” list = giddiness.  In addition, E. and I both have today to sit at home and DO NOTHING.  We’re owed this BIG TIME since we were out all weekend.  Super-fantabulous YAE.