Moving On

Last year was officially the most difficult school year of my career.  I was gone for 3 and a half months with baby issues and we had the most challenging group of kids yet.  I also lost Lindsey.  It was a really, really rough year.

This year was rough, but for non-kid related reasons.  We ended up with quite a bit of personnel change on our team and it definitely took it's toll on me.  Yesterday I was trying to decide why I had no stress about the end of the school year this year.  And then I remembered that the ends of the last two years had been punctuated by terrible departures.  Two years ago, we lost Luke, our Language Arts teacher.  I was devastated.  I was pregnant, so that didn't help matters, but I bawled like a little baby when he left.

Thank the Good Lord Cindy is still here!

And then last year it was Lindsey.  If I thought losing Luke was bad, this was heart-breaking.  I cried for days up until it happened, and then I cried all afternoon and the whole way home.  It was awful.  So awful I'm going to just move on right now.

BUT!  I survived!  There were definitely moments when I didn't think I was going to.  There were definitely moments when I missed these two people more than I could ever imagine.  We have had struggles with our team this year that I could have never anticipated.  BUT! We made it.  I made it.  It is a small kind of personal accomplishment to slam the book shut on this school year and move on!