School is approaching...

     ... Too quickly.  Two more weeks of summer break, and then it's back to work.  One work week without the kids, and the first day of school on August 27.  I really (quite desperately actually) need to begin lesson planning, re-organizing my classroom, creating videos for my Calculus students, etc. before my work week.  However, I have absolutely no - none, zero, zilch - desire to do anything for my job.  I find it very saddening because I remember when there was a day that I was excited about teaching and prepping for my students.  What happened!?!  What is even worse, so many of my fellow educators are getting out of education.  Someone once told me that recently the teacher survival rate is about 5 years - eek!  (I don't know if that statistic is true...)  I could get on my "soap box" about teaching which would explain why so many young teachers are getting the heck out of education, but.... I won't bore you with my opinions.
     Last school year was an extremely rough year for me... and Andy too.  We had never been so emotionally, mentally, and physically drained because of our jobs.  There are advantages to working with your spouse, and seeing each other throughout the day is not one of them.  However, Andy and I bear each other's burdens way too much which is so easy to do since we know everyone and every detail of our frustrations.  Definitely a huge negative.  I would be mad at people at work simply because they said an ill word about my husband or just coaches in general.  Same with Andy towards me.  It's very difficult.
     So, I have found some verses to help us through this upcoming year...

Do all things without grumbling or disputing; so that you will prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you appear as lights in the world, holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to glory because I did not run in vain nor toil in vain.    Philippians 2:14-16

Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.   Ephesians 4:26-27

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.  Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.   Ephesians 4:31-32