so true, so friggen true!

When I was a little girl, I wanted to be about a hundred things when I "grew up". I wanted to be everything from a nurse to the president. As the years went by, my list grew shorter and shorter and by the time I was in high school, I just wanted to graduate and be done with school altogether!

Then, on December 30, 1998 everything changed. I had by babies and I knew that bouncing from job to job was no longer going to cut it for me (or them) and I knew I had to make a decition. Well, after alot of thinking, I decided that I should be a nurse. It wasn't the work that worried me, it was the thought of blood that totally grossed me out. That is when my very (sometimes too) honest mother told me "Megan, you will make a terrible nurse, why don't you do what you always wanted to do, be a teacher" and that is when my journey began.

I enrolled in college, began taking classes, got my degree, and actually did quite well. I began working at daycare centers (which I loved), but I realized I still had more work to do. I am now going to school to further my education and get my next degree, but in the meantime, I am still working in the eduation field as a subtitute teacher (as I mentioned in another blog).

Well, when I was at a school last week, on of the teachers handed out this e-mail she got and I know that I am meant to be in this field because fully understood this e-mail and agreed with the whole thing.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.....

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE A TEACHER? By Jeff Foxworthy

1. You can hear 25 voices behind you and know exactly which one belongs to the child out of line.
2. You get a secret thrill out of laminating something.
3. You walk into a store and hear the words "It's Ms/Mr. _________" and know you have been spotted.
4. You have 25 people that accidentally call you Mom/Dad at one time or another.
5. You can eat a multi-course meal in under twenty-five minutes.
6. You've trained yourself to go to the bathroom at two distinct times of the day: lunch and prep period.
7. You start saving other people's trash, because most likely, you can use that toilet paper tube or plastic butter tub for something in the classroom.
8. You believe the teachers' lounge should be equipped with a margarita machine.
9. You want to slap the next person who says "Must be nice to work 7 to 3 and have summers off."
10. You believe chocolate is a food group.
11. You can tell if it's a full moon without ever looking outside.
12. You believe that unspeakable evils will befall you if anyone says "Boy, the kids sure are mellow today."
13. You feel the urge to talk to strange children and correct their behavior when you are out in public.
14. You believe in aerial spraying of Ritalin.
15. You think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.
16. You spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.
17. You can't pass the school supply aisle without getting at least five items!
18. You ask your friends if the left hand turn he just made was a "good choice or a bad choice."
19. You find true beauty in a can full of perfectly sharpened pencils
20. You are secretly addicted to hand sanitizer.
And finally,
21. You understand instantly why a child behaves a certain way after meeting his or her parents.

-Meg