I have found over the years that I don't like change. It's not that I don't new things and new places, but when it comes to certain things, change and me don't necessarily get along. For instance, our homeschool coop. We had been part of the same great group for all of first 4 years of homeschooling. And then....I thought about changing.
It's not that I wouldn't change, it's just, I knew the routine, knew and enjoyed the other moms, and could go in and still be the same me. But I wanted something different this year for me. I wanted to be an assistant to some great wonderlady who is gifted at teaching a group of 2o to 30 kids. I wanted to smile and hand out papers and escort kids to the bathroom. Anything, but teach!
But that would mean that I would have learn a whole new routine, get to know a group of new moms and be changed myself in this whole process. So, I signed up kicking and screaming. Not literally, but in my mind I wanted back the security of 4 years of sameness.
We're gone through about 5 weeks now. Did my kids have to push me down the hall the first day? Well, no, but the first week is always the hardest! I can say truthfully now that this has been a good change for not only myself, but for the kids too. I am meeting new moms and learning and growing and changing.
A quote from a not so wise man I know: (Redundant I know, but you would have to know him)
"Change is the only constant in life."
Amen, brother, amen.
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