I've got a job!

I got this call this afternoon offering me the job I've had two interviews for. I'm incredibly excited about it. I was worried I would feel like I'm abandoning my son, and maybe that feeling will come on my first day of work, but right now I just feel like this is God's calling for me.

The job kind of fell into my lap. I went to the school asking to volunteer and out of my interview for volunteering they decided they wanted to consider me for a job opening they had. They asked if I'ld be interested and I say sure, just to see where it went. Such a contrast compared to the year of applying, supply teaching, struggle, and low self-esteem from being rejected over and over again that preceded my first full time teaching job.

I'm the Learning Resource Teacher at a Christian school close to my house. In this position I'll be coordinating the individual learning plans for students who struggle. I'll be working with the Eduational Asistant and the current Special Ed teacher and the parents of these students to help the student suceed. I wont be spending a lot of time in the classroom which will be a change, but I'm excited about the challenge it will be. I'll be researching new teaching techniques, recomending teaching ideas to the other staff, listening to concerns, and a thousand other things.

I'm only working two mornings a week, and possibly one or two afternoons a month. My husband can have one morning off a week so I just need to plan for the other times and find a babysitter. I need to pray about this a lot. It is such a responsibility to find the right person to watch my son. There are so many qualities I want the person to have, and I don't see how an interview of a potential babysitter will be enough for me to judge their character and parenting style.

So, I'm excited and thinking a million things at once, including how I need to go shopping for clothes for this summer.