With Gratitude

It's been a reflective two days.
I am BEYOND APPRECIATIVE of your sweet, kind, heart-warming thoughts.
Blogging--and blog responding--is a lot like therapy (except you don't have to rehash your earliest childhood memories--and you get to choose where to start the conversation!)

I think I am "stuck" at school (I'm working this hard and they are STILL failing?!), so it spilled over into my sentiments about blogging too.

I have read lots of blogversations in the last year. It really is an "anything goes" friends-will-like-you-anyways kind of interaction.  That's one of the many reasons blogging is so wonderful!

And I do (now!) recall reading posts from a few other people questioning whether blogging was worth the time and trouble at that particular time in their lives.So at least I wasn't alone in the questioning and the self-doubt. (Certainly makes me more sensitive to those who experience this!)

I really do want to get better at this--which won't happen if I quit trying.

So here's what I would like to try to do...
I tried to take pieces of your advice and weave them together to readjust my thinking a bit.
I want to let myself off the hook a bit and let boring posts be boring posts. I want to blog more often but make it less stressful (Sounds a bit more oxymoronic, but I think it might work.)  My goal is to post a few times a week--but mostly real-life stuff... the stuff teachers live each day.

HOWEVER, I have one ultimate request.  If you are one of the people who left a message (until
I have a chance to get back to you personally), please KNOW your responses felt like sweet hugs.  Each note warmed my heart like a venti mocha WITH whip... until I felt like I owned a Starbucks franchise.

Ahhhhhhh. Such JOY.

So along with my can't-even-tell-you-how-much-it-meant THANKS, I leave you this interaction from the line after recess yesterday.

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Brian:  Nathan kicked me

FrazzledTeacher: Nathan, did you kick Brian?
Nathan: No, I didn't kick him.
FrazzledTeacher: Really?  He said you kicked him.
Nathan: No, I didn't kick him
FrazzledTeacher: Hmmm. Can you think of a reason why he said that you did?
Nathan: I didn't kick him.
FrazzledTeacher: Okay. What did you choose to do at recess today?
Nathan: Well, we were hanging out like always, and we were kicking each oth...
FrazzledTeacher: Oh. So you did kick him?
Nathan: No, I didn't kick him
FrazzledTeacher: But you just said...
Nathan: He kicked me and then my foot...
FrazzledTeacher: Uh huh... then what?
Nathan: I didn't kick him. My foot was moving and he was in the way.
FrazzledTeacher: Sigh. We'll talk more about this later. In the meantime, please keep your moving foot away from others...

Nathan (mumbling under his breath): I didn't kick him...

 
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