Putting Out the Fire with a Mantra

I have had some responses to my last post where I vented my frustration at needing to lower my stress levels. After getting this feedback I have realized that I should reassure everyone that I am fine, happy, and loving my pregnancy (I mean... how could I not? I have no symptoms other than bigger boobs!). What I need everyone to understand is that I have chosen to use the blog as a way to communicate openly about what is going on in my life and I deliberately put the wonderful times and the less wonderful times. Most of the people I love are very far away and they miss out on what Kevin and I go through out here. Fortunately, there will be a lot more positive postings than negative ones, but every once in a while when I have having a down day I will share it. It is definitely not the choice everyone makes when blogging but I think it is more realistic this way. I am sorry if I scared some of you with my stress rantings because that is really all it was. I had had a rough day at work with the rough group of kids I have and I wanted to share the new facet of my life that is balancing work and mommyhood. I also wanted to express to people that I have finally hit a point where being addicted to stress and using it as a driving force is no longer appropriate for me. It is an adjustment, that is all. So please do not picture me sitting at home with my head spinning around, that is not at all what is happening. In fact, the night that I posted that last blog I sat at the dinner table with Kevin for an hour just bouncing my teaching life off of him and he was doing the same with me. I am SOOOOO fortunate to have an amazing husband who also happens to be in teaching. It just couldn't get better than this. So here is another piece of what was going through my head that same night I was ranting about my stress... Kevin and I were also talking about the economy and as we sat there tossing our worries back and forth the culmination of the conversation was the one thought that always releases my stress and it is this...

No matter what happens in the world, in the classroom, or in my life, as long as I get to come home to Kevin everyday and as long as our families are OK then I can get through anything. 

This is my mantra. (Maybe I should have shared it in the other blog so it didn't come off so frantic)