Sorry I didn’t post Thursday. I was too busy taking my last final exam (ever) and moving out of my dorm. Commencement was today, and now I’m officially a college graduate.
It feels weird. I’m happy, scared, excited, and nervous all at the same time. School is quite literally the only thing I’ve ever known–assuming you count homeschool, of course, which is more like real life than most other forms of education. I’ve been working pretty steadily since I was 16, but always part time. Since my dream of being an author hasn’t played out in a way that will pay rent, I’ll have to find something else. Maybe the school I’ve been subbing for will hire me full-time. Maybe I’ll find something else. I have no idea. All I know is that being a teacher (when the kids aren’t brats, anyway) is an amazing and rewarding job that I enjoy way more than I thought I would.
I’ve been bouncing around the idea–it’s literally just an idea, I’m probably not going to do anything with it–of opening a school of my own. I wouldn’t teach normal things–although I suppose I could. Rather, I’d teach practical skills. Sewing. Cooking. Cleaning. Gardening, maybe. Crocheting and knitting. I’d either call it the Mary Jean Murr School of Home Economics (after my grandmother, who taught me almost everything I know) or The Academy of Lost Arts. I have no idea how many people would be interested in it. I have no idea if I’d be teaching adults, teens, or children, or a little bit of both.
But you know what? If Pickles and Pottery, a local paint-your-own-pottery shop, can stay in business for years, I think that I could probably start a home ec school. The fact that my Aunt Hope made a living by teaching baton twirling for decades gives me hope that, maybe, the world needs my niche skills after all.
Anyway, we have a ridiculously busy weekend. I’m off to see a school play that my sister is co-directing. Speaking of my sister, she gave me the biggest hug after commencement. She never hugs me, so this was special and I felt so nice and warm and loved inside. Thank God for moments like this.
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Follow your heart..and God’s leading…..know you are loved and cared about from so many. You have encouraged me with your friendship…love you sweet girl!!!