DESSERTS

Wow! I can't even begin to describe how BUSY today was. Being my first day back I am EXHAUSTED and it is already passed my self-designated bedtime. (I'm already not doing well with that this year!) So my blog tonight will be short and sweet...

We had a wonderful inservice today and I just wanted to share with you a thought that I hope will stick with me this year...Stressed spelled backwards is Desserts...and even when you go through hard things (stress) in life, there will always be dessert somewhere in it. Though it may be hard for us to see at the time, and we may never be able to look back on our hard and stressful times and see the good, I firmly believe God puts the good there for us. It's all a matter of perspective and how we choose to see things. So with that being said, let me give you a rundown on my first day back.

STRESS:
My Keurig breaks on  my way out the door as I am making my coffee this morning. Now if you truly know me, you know this is BAD. I mean I have literally had kids in my class shush each other when I come in sans coffee cup. B.A.D.
DESSERT:
I was up in time to go by Dunkin Doughnuts. LOVE. And the Keurig people were so nice on the phone. I already have another in the mail and I got to demolish the old one and send back the broken parts...fun?! I think so!

STRESS:
Long, LONG, Long meeting in which I really learned a lot, but it was VERY hard to focus with my mounding to do list.
DESSERT:
Wonderful inservice! Learned so much that I think will help me be a much better and less stressed teacher this year.

STRESS:
Waiting on rosters and state debit cards before I can finish some things in my classroom.
DESSERT:
Maybe my sister will get to come help me tomorrow, and I wouldn't have thought to ask her if I wasn't so stressed. And I am super excited about my roster. I can't tell you who is in my class yet, but I have a great feeling about this year!

STRESS:
Insurance men who don't do what they say they are going to! (For those of you who don't know this, we got into a wreck on the way home from the beach. Craziest thing I have ever seen. EVER. Luckily everyone was ok, and I am not having to pay a dime to get my car fixed, BUT I still wish the insurance man wasn't a poop.
DESSERT:
We have a wonderful friend that owns a body shop that is going to fix my car. So hassle free! He was so quick to get a quote and have it all taken care of and I am SO THANKFUL! AND maybe, just maybe I'll get a really sporty hip rental car.

So with all this said, remember that stressed spelled backwards is desserts. Always take time to look for the dessert in your stressful moments. And as my wise mother, lovingly known to many as CC says, It is what it is, but it will become what you make it.

One last BIG DESSERT! I am blessed with the sweetest boyfriend EVER! I was so stressed about my day and I came home looking quite frazzled. So my sweet man loads me up in the car, takes me to Chick-Fil-A (a fav for me), a little shopping at Knickerbockers, AND a trip to Yogurt Mountain. Love him!   So all in all, a little stress in my day wasn't anything that a little dessert couldn't fix!