February 2024 Life Update

February 2024 Life Update

New Job

I’ve been teaching second grade for about six weeks now, and I absolutely love it. I am so happy, that when an Elementary Principal position m came open at a nearby school, I decided not to apply for it. I am content with raising my family and focusing on teaching right now. My husband got a new foreman position, he has worked really hard for this. This promotion in his career is allowing me the opportunity to just focus on raising the family and teaching. I am happy with where I am in my career and I know that in the future more opportunities will come about when I am ready to take them on.

Books

So far in 2024 I have read nine books. I really enjoyed The Sweet Rom “Coms” Series: Commit, Complex, Complete and Compared. It is a serious about the Johnson siblings. Each book focuses on one sibling and their love story. I really liked the book Compared, it was about a second grade teacher. I have to admit the book I could not put down during Presidents’ Day weekend was Brittany Spears I am Woman. I prefer fiction books, but this nonfiction book was amazing. Her story is incredible. There were so many things I never knew about her and it reminded me the importance of not judging somebody because you truly don’t know what they’re going through, and what trauma they have endured.

Brittany said in her book her focus is to get spiritual life in order, pay attention to the little things and slow down. I loved the idea and now it’s what I want to focus on as well.

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