Snow Day
So, I’ve recently started teaching science again. I accepted a job teaching at the middle school level and the Omaha Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. Teaching at a reservation school is both delightful and challenging. Being a mom who works outside the home is even more challenging. (The irony here looms like Mt. Everest, since it has taken me six years to become passionate about being a stay at home mom… just in time for me to start working again.)
Since my first day three weeks ago, I’ve been living for the weekends and working to stay caught up with my many responsibilities moment to moment. I’ve found that something I once loathed has become the thing I look forward to most: the day when school gets canceled due to weather. As a stay-at-home mom, these days struck fear into my heart. It meant that my kids would be home-bound and my normal routine would be completely shot. Now “snow day” means that I can return to the bliss that is staying at home on a blustery winter day with my kids.
In honor of today’s snow day, I thought I’d share one of my winter layouts that I made a few months ago for the Spellbinders gallery. The photos of Maiah are from last winter. She’s growing up so fast!
