It’s been a cool, crisp, peaceful morning here. The temps remind me of a crisp fall day. The kind that I like. The kind that envokes happiness in my soul. The kind that make me think of going back to school. More specifically, the kind of morning that takes me back to the days when I had graduated from high school and was preparing to leave for college at Mizzou. New Year’s Day might be January 1st, but going back to school has always felt like the new year to me.
I love this time of year and I think that maybe it is why I became an educator. There’s always been a level of excitement and anticipation that I have felt at this time of the year. It’s more than just cool air and college football. I love those things, but it goes deeper than that.
There’s new students, new parents, often new coworkers. New clothes, new backpacks, new pens and notebooks. Everything is new and with that comes the potential to do something new with the year. To make, or re-make, yourself.
It’s a time of setting goals for the school year. What do I want to accomplish? How do I want the year to look? How do I want to look? What’s my schedule look like? What can I incorporate into my daily routine that will help me to achieve those goals?
Am I ready to give up my summer freedoms like slow mornings and drinking my coffee while it’s still hot? Living in my pjs and having a clean house? Not quite. But I am ready to go school shopping. 🙂
~Sondra~
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