Queen of Rambles

I wanted to write a deep and meaningful blog entry today, but I started coughing up shards of glass last night and couldn’t sleep at all. My night went something like this: cough cough babykick babykick gas pains cough roll over wipe sweat off neck and boobies cough babykick cough cough gas pains baby kick and so on and so forth ALL NIGHT LONG. I finally got up at 3 am and played a very long game of Chuzzle, my new favorite game. I really hope I get a little more sleep tonight.

Why the need to write a deep and meaningful blog entry? A few days ago I got an e-mail from someone doing research on “educators who blog,” which really surprised me. I always think of myself as being careerless and jobless even though I work my ass off every day. I tend to have an extremely unrealistic view of myself sometimes. So now I’m thinking I need deep and meaningful education posts. But I don’t wanna.

I’ve decided I really shouldn’t feel like a fake when it comes to the world of education. I’ve been involved in different aspects of education for the past 12 years so I think I have a valid viewpoint. In fact, my viewpoint might even be more interesting/diverse than someone who has been doing the same thing for 12 years since I’ve done a variety of tasks. In addition to being a regular classroom teacher and newspaper advisor, I’ve worked as a paraprofession (VERY eye opening), taught job skills to high risk youth, ran a summer drop in center, subbed in four different school districts in two countries, and volunteered as a guest speaker in Sweden. So I refuse to feel guilty about being a “fake.”

Of course, now I’m moving on to the next phase of my life and I don’t know when I will step foot in a classroom again. I always say that and I always end up doing education related activities so I wouldn’t at all be surprised if I get bored this summer and start volunteering at a reading program or something like that. If Mike really does get his two days of telecommuting after his company moves to Maryland I know I will start subbing those two days. I want to be a stay at home mom, but I think getting out of the house for two days a week while Mike pulled dad duty would be really good for me.

I really don’t think I helped the education blogger research person out all that much since I don’t see myself as an “education blogger.” I’m just a “person with a blog” who writes about whatever is going on. I’ve gone through so many stages that it must be confusing for those people who like to stick their blog reads in categories. I started as an ex-pat in Sweden, then became a manic bride, and finally kind of evolved into an education blog (I guess). I just hope I NEVER NEVER NEVER get the label “mommy blog.” I want to be a whole person. I enjoy several different “mommy blogs” though the ones I enjoy are just “people blogs” and the people happen to have kids. I really don’t enjoy the mommy blogs that are All Kid, All the Time.

Ramble ramble. I’m trying very hard to avoid taking a nap right now. I took a big nap yesterday and I think that’s why I had such a crappy time last night.

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