Well, the moment is almost here. I am so excited to get those kids in my room and get this year started! I left today with the thought that tomorrow is the first official day of my career. Tomorrow I get to do what I've wanted to do since I was a second grader.

I was riding my bike around the neighborhood last night to clear my head, and on my way home I rode on the sidewalk near my elementary school. I looked in the windows and was hit with deja vu. I've done that so many times before, and every time I've looked to my right into the third grade hallway windows and checked out the classrooms thinking, "that's going to be me some day." And last night, my thought was, "that's going to be me on.....WEDNESDAY!!"

To have reached this point is somewhat unbelievable to me. About 5 months ago I recall wishing desperately that I could just skip the end of second semester, skip the anxiety of the job search, skip the unknown that lay ahead of me, and get to whatever it was that my future would turn out to be. But here I am, SO LUCKY to be employed in a great district, working with people I admire already, after only a short time.

I'm ready for school. Are you?