Substitute Paperwork...again

     So it isn't a completely new thing but it has been like...oh, I don't know...maybe 16 years or so since I did it the first time.  Plus now I'm an adult with two children.  I've dreamed of being a teacher since the days of my youth with a chalkboard and an imaginary class.  I made phonics flash cards and read stories...to a basement of nothing.  As soon as I could I began to tutor small children.  As I went into higher grades I was given more challenging roles and greater responsibility.  The choice of a major was a simple one.  I was never lost...I was always a teacher.  All positions and jobs and roles since have been all over the map but I slipped my teaching ways in any way that I could.  Once I had children I imagined summers off with them.  Holidays spent with traditions not guilt because of a workload that prevented my parenting.  I wanted to be with them...cooking dinner while they did their homework around the kitchen table.  I subbed for two years right after school.  I was a great sub.  Requested by teachers in the summer before school even started.  But I moved.  At the time it seemed like a thing that I needed to do.  I dabbled in preschool a few years back and learned a new side to education.  I now have to say I love the little ones as much as the primary grades.  I have volunteered for many an event for my first child and am about to start the service hours for the second one as well.  I have to say that walking the hallways, seeing the children, hearing the sounds and smelling the scents of school...is well...where I have always felt the most at home.  My dream is to have my own school some day.  I have spent many an hour planning the syllabus and decorating the rooms.  I have also taught my own babies.  They are bright and thoughtful and funny.  They are truly good kids.  An education isn't wasted a single moment when you see the outcome that I have with my very own "students".  But my education needs to be put to good use again.  With both of them finally in school it is time to shine my apple, file some paperwork and get back to the place that I love more than anything.  Today I took the first step and walked into the Human Resources Dept and picked up the pile of papers that will get the ball rolling.