I went to school this weekend to do some housecleaning stuff like cleaning my desk, cleaning their desks, putting out a new seating chart, and JJ helped by cleaning off my bulletin board, helping with the kids’ desks, and scrubbing my whiteboards squeaky clean. As I looked around the room, I started to wonder when it was that I stepped from that awkward post-college phase into full blown adulthood.
Earlier this year I waited with some of my swimmers to be picked up by their parents and as we waited and chatted it dawned on me that it was MY responsibility to make sure they got home safely, and if their parents forgot to come get them, it was my job to make sure they would be picked up or to deliver them safely home. When did this happen? And there are 18 sets of parents out there who entrust their children to me for 8-9 hours every day. Good grief.
Now, as we move towards really settling down, with me quite happy teaching and coaching, and JJ happy at his job, I have come to realize that, like JJ, my life has begun. If you had asked me 5 years ago where I would be when I was 24-soon-to-be-25 I am not sure exactly what I would have said, but I don’t think I would have predicted marriage. I don’t think I would have predicted being a teacher. And I don’t think I would have predicted being in North Carolina. The only thing I have now that I wanted back then is the dog. I have always loved dogs and while I adored our little dog, Happy, when I was a kid and growing up, I always wanted a bit larger dog. So now I have my Roxy and I’m happy about that.
At any rate life is good. Busy, but good. I’m going to try and be better about posting even if it’s just mundane stuff. Plus, in a month I will be celebrating my 25th birthday so there might be some birthday-nostalgic-historic- posts coming. More about Angela than you ever wanted to know probably.
