A Good Kind of Tired

Join the amazing group and share your celebrations We've just finished our first full week of school--with kids. If you teach, you understand how I fell back to sleep for another hour this morning when I really intended to just close my eyes and cuddle Chloe for a few minutes. If you teach, you'll understand why I slept most of the way to the lake last night. And that when we got to the cabin, I put my pjs on and wrapped up in a blanket for the rest of the night. It's a good kind of tired. It's the tired of learning new names and making sure to talk and connect with every single kid that walks in my room. It's the tired of creating family with a group of strangers and Of making my room a safe place to land. It's the tired of finding the right book for the right kid and learning why 42 kids took creative writing. It's the tired of welcoming a student into speech class for the 3rd time and then two class periods later welcoming him to dra