Tomorrow.

Tomorrow is a day that I am looking forward to and dreading at the same time. 

I have been a teacher for 5 years now and every year I get so 'Christmas morning excited' about Meet the Teacher. It's a big event! I love meeting my students for the first time. Shaking their hands, saying, "Welcome to 3rd grade," showing them the classroom where they will spend their day over the next 9 months. I am so proud of this classroom. It is the classroom where they will work hard and have fun, where they will laugh and grow and learn and explore. Where they will make new friends and learn valuable lessons that they may remember for a lifetime. It is the classroom where they will feel loved, supported, and at home----always.

I don't meet my new students until next Friday. 

Tomorrow isn't about me being a teacher. It is about me being a mommy. Tomorrow, I meet my daughter's very first teacher. We have Meet the Teacher at her new pre-school tomorrow. I am so eager for her to discover all the magical moments that her classroom holds. I want her to feel secure there and be able to thrive in the environment she is in. I hope that she adores her teachers and that her teachers love and cherish her as much as I do my students each year.  I have full confidence that she is going to enjoy being at school each day and begin to look forward to the structure and activities that it provides. I am beyond excited for her opportunity to be in such an amazing place.

She is so ready for this. I don't know if I am, but she definitely is.

She is so lucky, but her teacher-------her teacher is even luckier. I know, because I too, am a teacher and I know just how she feels. Lucky. To have a classroom full of brand new smiles, brand new ideas, brand new voices........a brand new start. That's blessed.

Hung these babies today in my new classroom. Love seeing my past students, they have a special place in my heart---especially now that I have moved schools and will not get to keep up with them.