Teaching Confession

So I know I have been missing from this here blog and my Instagram photos are filled of beaches and sunsets.

Tonight's cloudy but still gorgeous sunset. 

But there is a reason for this and it is not just because it is summer...

I moved.

Yup, I moved my little old self back to the other side of the state. You know the side where all my family and friends live. The one where I can do all the things I love and have all the places I love. The list even includes biking up hills and having snowplows that can really plow the roads.

Yes, it was so bad I missed hills.

Here's the problem, I had to give up my teaching job for this to happen.

I know on the surface it doesn't make sense. Giving up my teaching job for everything else, but seriously all that everything else is what holds me together. After making many pro/con lists, it just made sense. I have to be honest this is one of the first times I have ever made a life decision of this magnitude based more on my heart than my head. However, I just couldn't do it anymore. I couldn't juggle living in two places and shift between the person I was in each place every week. And I am a tough person.

And I am not just saying that either. How many people do you know enjoy roofing (yes the kind where you are laying out and nailing shingles) in 90 degree humid weather for days? Or run a triathlon with a broken bone in their foot?

My hand is up as a yes for both.

So for now, I have become a teacher without a classroom.

I get super jealous of all of you busy preparing for the upcoming year as I secretly hope and pray a job will appear before September 3rd.

However, my lack of my own classroom has not stopped me from cooking up so teaching ideas or reading teacher books so this blog will not be lacking with those. So do please continue to stop by and visit!