Hello, my friends! I am embarking on this new journey and testing the waters with creating a blog. I follow so many teacher friends this way and am in total awe of what they do. I am a newbie when it comes to blogging so please bear with me...
I am a 16-year elementary teaching "veteran" that loves to collaborate. I am open minded and always willing to learn, as I truly believe that is how to grow as an educator. There are many days in the classroom that I feel confident, like "I've got this!" and there can also be days that I feel like, "What am I doing?" With every new year comes many new things (and/or people): students, sometimes curriculum, programs, colleagues, leadership, support staff, and the list goes on...In the past few years, it seems like I've taken on more "new" than I have in all my years combined. I know many of you can relate. Sometimes the plate is "officially full" and running over.
I live in Southern California and have two kiddos that I adore. My daughter will be 7 (going on 17, lol) in a couple of days and my son will be 2 this September. I have a non-teacher hubby that I love mucho. We love to go camping, watch movies together, and are planning our first "entire family" Disneyland adventure this week. The hubs, daughter, and I have been when she was younger (aka free--under 3) but have yet to take the little man.
With this blog, I hope to share in my "not-so-balanced" life of being a teacher mama. I love my family. I love my job. Finding the perfect balance of the love, care, time, and devotion I give can be difficult for me. Being a working mama with littles can be such a challenge. I have many successes but I also have many failures and I am trying my hardest to balance all of it.
I hope you will join me on my new adventure. I welcome advice, comments, suggestions, you name it. Thanks for stopping by.
xo,
L
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