Another S Family

Meet my bestie, BFF, sister from another mister and her gorge family.  Legend has it I met my bestie during my second semester of student teaching.  You see, during my first semester I pretty much made up my mind that I didn't want to be a teacher anymore.  I literally cried in my car all the way  home each day.  It was not the most pleasant experience.  Then I came to Olathe and met my mentor teacher and we became pretty fast friends.  She made me see that teaching could be fun again and you could have a life outside of your job.  She claims she doesn't remember telling me this, but I always think about how she said, "Teaching is my job, it's not my life," and to remember to have fun with my co-workers and not take my work home.  Along with her, I made lifelong friends.
Soon I got a job teaching with my BFF and we pretty much lived happily ever after.  Imagine the 22ish and 25ish versions of ourselves going out and telling people we were teachers.  We got a lot of, "Teachers weren't like you two when I was in school!"  I won't go into exact detail as to why stand-up young men would say that about us.  We were certainly on our best behavior.  There were many happy hours, phone calls, therapy sessions, road trips, rolling our eyes at our husbands, comforting each other because there are times when our kids drive us nutty, sometimes making poor decisions and many, many, many laughs as you can see from this morning I got to spend with this adorable family.  Love you bestie.  Love your family.  Probably wouldn't be anywhere close to where I am today without everything you've done for me!