Basically, we all get super excited over the new pencils, backpacks, cute water bottles, planners (my favorite!) and get ourselves geared up for\u2026.<\/p>\n
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the same thing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n For the students, sure, it\u2019s a different classroom, different teachers, maybe some new students in the class.\u00a0 But basically, 180 days of a lot of the same thing.\u00a0<\/strong> On repeat.<\/p>\n As a teacher, and especially as a preschool teacher, no day is really the same.\u00a0 Literally.\u00a0 I can always count on the very tiny people in my classroom to make the day interesting, whether in a good or bad way.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n I love teaching.\u00a0 My career will never require me to be sitting at a desk doing exactly the same thing for any work day of the entire year.\u00a0 Every day has new challenges, new things to laugh (and cry) about, and overall, just a lot of fun to be had!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/robynsfrenchnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-to-School-7-768×1024.jpg” title_text=”Back to School (7)” admin_label=”IMG” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” width=”70%” module_alignment=”center” max_height=”750px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n But can I be super honest?<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 As the days approached for this school year, I found myself kicking and screaming on the inside.<\/p>\n On the first day of school, we had a little student who was less than excited for school.\u00a0 In fact, although I could tell this kiddo really wanted to play, there was also a lot of very age-appropriate apprehension about leaving Mommy and Daddy.\u00a0 This bright kiddo went so far as to try and negotiate us to get the school bus because they really just wanted to go home.\u00a0 Fortunately for us and sadly for this cutie, our school doesn\u2019t have a bus.\u00a0 Out of luck.\u00a0 Haha!<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n (The child ended up having a fabulous day and was excited to come back the next day.\u00a0 It all worked out!)<\/p>\n Truth be told, I felt a little the same though.<\/strong>\u00a0 Not at all because I don\u2019t love the school, my students, the classroom, or even the whole idea of teaching.\u00a0 I actually do still really want to be a teacher and I really do love my job<\/em><\/strong>, even after 17 years.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n But those 17 years of teaching have taught me to expect the excitement of the new year to wear off and difficult days to pop up from time to time.\u00a0 I know the exhaustion that will await me on Friday afternoon at 2:45 p.m. and the nerves that will hit me on Sunday at about 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n I just wasn\u2019t ready for that.\u00a0 Not quite yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n Honestly, it still feels like we, as teachers, are carrying the weight of the world from last year.\u00a0 Eight weeks of summer \u201cbreak\u201d just wasn\u2019t quite enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n I found myself just not quite ready for the \u201cmundane\u201d.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/robynsfrenchnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-to-School-10-768×1024.jpg” title_text=”Back to School (10)” admin_label=”IMG” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” width=”70%” module_alignment=”center” max_height=”750px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n Then I was reminded of a quote from one of my favorite authors,\u00a0<\/strong>Ann Voskamp<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cSometimes doing the most important thing eternally doesn\u2019t look like you\u2019re doing anything noticeably.\u201d<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n And there it is.\u00a0 I think most of us have a desire to make a difference, to do something that really counts.\u00a0 We look at the movers and shakers in the world and at least I am tempted to feel that I can never make a big difference for anyone in the mundane tasks of my everyday living.<\/p>\n And I got to thinking\u2026what if I turn mundane into a positive?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n The New Oxford American Dictionary defines mundane as \u201clacking interest or excitement; dull.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n So how can we make mundane a positive in our lives?<\/p>\n Well, \u201cnormal\u201d is a synonym for mundane.\u00a0 That should be a positive in and of itself.\u00a0 I think most of us have found ourselves longing for more \u201cnormal\u201d over the past 18 months.<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”What ifs?” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n Mundane?\u00a0 I don\u2019t think so.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s an intentional reset and refocus, but it\u2019s not really so impossible when you actually give pause in your day and look around at all you have to thank God for.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n So maybe you are jet-setting around the world, being a mover and shaker for good.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 But maybe you\u2019re at home changing diapers and trying to think of something to fix for dinner that fits in the budget this week.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re headed into that office job to do paperwork that no one seems to care much about.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re caring for an elderly loved one and the grieving has already begun.\u00a0 Maybe you\u2019re just doing the same thing you did yesterday, the day before that, and the weeks, months, years before that.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Section Text” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n And maybe you can turn your \u201cmundane\u201d into everyday faithfulness for what God has asked of you in this season.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n So tomorrow, I head into my classroom, still doing all the things that I always do, but with a determination to reset and to view my \u201cmundanes\u201d as blessings and my \u201cnormal\u201d as an incredible gift.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/robynsfrenchnest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Back-to-School-11-768×1024.jpg” title_text=”Back to School (11)” admin_label=”CLosing img” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” width=”70%” module_alignment=”center” max_height=”750px”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text admin_label=”Follow Me” _builder_version=”4.9.10″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n I’d love for you to follow me on social media! \u00a0You can find my home decor inspiration on Instagram<\/strong><\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>! \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Closing” _builder_version=”4.9.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”16px”]<\/p>\n Blessings,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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