First Post......let's see where this takes us!

I have read lots of blogs and thought, I could do this, I like to talk, I have lots to say.  Then I read a friend's post and began to realize that something like this might help me get some of life's frustrations out, and I might have a little fun while doing it.  So here I am, writing my first blog and thinking, this is NOT as easy as it seems.

Being a teacher I go back over and over it and think of all the things I have taught my kids to do.  Did you engage the reader, do you have a beginning that grabs your readers attention, etc etc etc.   I decided that I am just going to talk like you are all my friends, (all being me right now), but maybe someday I might have a "follower" as it says on the side. 

How can I make me interesting?  From my life I am not sure I can make me seem like something you want to read, but I will try.   One thing I will say is that I am going to say things like I think them, maybe not politically correct at times, but if I am thinking it, (an overweight, 34 year old, under-employed, mother of 2 rowdy boys), then someone else is also thinking it.  At least I hope so.

I was born and raised in "The Soo" as we like to call it.  I moved away to a small town outside Ottawa to get a teaching job when I graduated university (in 1999), and then stupidly moved back here in 2004.   Stupidly I say because I forgot how hard it is to get a job in this town without certain letters in your name.   I have been supply teaching ever since. 

I absolutely LOVE teaching, it is my passion, my dream, my desire, and it breaks my heart to think that I might have to leave it.   Unfortunately money drives us, without it we cannot eat (which in my case might be a good thing), we cannot sleep (cause our house would be the ground), we cannot function as a happy household.   Being a supply teacher does not pay the bills, at least not that many of them.   So at this time in my life, as I am about to turn 35, I am having to contemplate leaving the profession that I have wanted since I was 3. 

I have 2 boys, one about to turn 7, and the other about to turn 4.   I love them to death, but at times I would trade them in for a quieter girl.   Don't get me wrong, I love my boys, but LOUD is an understatement.  Any of you who read this and know me will know that I am a loud person naturally so I am not one to complain, but please just one day with no yelling.  Trust me, that topic will be another days blog.

Well I guess if I still have you, thanks for reading and joining me on this journey of life.

Nicole