I started going to a personal history class last week. I missed the one today because I was substituting. It was fun to talk to other women around my age. We all seemed to have played the same games at school, dressed the same way, remember things about the same way. That is all except Stacey Smoot who doesn’t remember playing hopscotch with a hoppy taw. She only remembers it as a taw. We all had one!
I am the mother of five. The oldest is 25; Amanda, 23; Nate (who now goes by his middle name of Jack), 20; Sarah, 17; Spencer and 14; Avery. My husband Ken and I have been married for 27 years. Wow, that is a long time! I remember when we had been married for 19 years and I had been married for as many years as I had lived at home with my parents. That is quite a pinnacle point in my life.
I am a substitute teacher. There was no school Monday or Tuesday of this week but I did sub half a day yesterday and two hours today. What is nice about that is that even if you only sub for two hours I still get paid for half a day. I like that. Usually the money I earn substituting I am able to use as fun money. Since the starting of this school year, subbing has been few and far between. Over the last couple of weeks things have picked up and I have been subbing more. Over the last four years I have had several surgeries and teachers had stopped calling me as much and started depending on other subs. Every time I am subbing at least one teacher stops me and askes if I am up to subbing again and how am I feeling. I also always get another subbing job for another day when I am there, so it is good to get out. I really enjoy it! Most of my time is spent nowadays at J.P. Stewart Elementary. Yesterday I worked in the Library and today I was with Mrs. Thomas’s 5th grade class. Over the last couple of weeks I have subbed a lot in the Functional Skills Class which is the class for kids with Special Needs. That has also been enjoyable.
