Renewed my Liscense

I was looking back on the blog post titles for the month of March, and I must say, I'm tired of all the whining going on here!!

In the midst of all the hubbub this month about my tooth, I managed to renew my teaching certificate. That may not be a big deal to anyone else, but it feels like something to me.

I had let my certificate lapse back when I had a 3 year old child who had recently had a traumatic accident and reconstructive surgery on her finger and was in the middle of being diagnosed with autism and a 6-8 month old baby. At that time I wasn't teaching, and I never expect to teach ever again, and I had so very much going on that the dumb RENEWABLE certificate was the farthest thing from my mind.

It STILL burns me up that I was in the very first class of teachers in this state with the stinking renewable certificates. If I had graduated a single semester sooner, I'd have a lifetime certificate, and it wouldn't be an issue ever. I graduated with a Music Ed degree in 3.5 years as it was. I don't think I COULD have graduated any sooner.

About a month ago I looked into what it would take to get my papers up to speed, should a perfect job come my way, and the process is not too painful. On March 4th I took the steps (filled out the online form and paid $40 via credit card), and I am several bureaucratic steps away from being a certified teacher again.

My Little Girl is enrolled in a Pre-K program for 2009-2010. She's probably going to have the same teacher Big Girl had. I loved that teacher so much I cried the last day of school, when Big Girl finished Pre-K, saying good-bye to her.

That changes things quite a bit for the stay-at-home mom with both kids out of the house for a good part of the day, every day. If a part-time job comes open, I could take it.

And now I'm ready. And I wonder what's gonna happen. I'm not worried about it, I just wonder...