It is FINISHED!!!

Today is OFFICIALLY my last day of work! Starting Monday I will be a bona-fide stay at home mommy (although I am going back in for a meeting Monday morning…boo and actually I will be working a little bit from home for the rest of the school year)!

While I can’t WAIT to start this new career, there are a few things I will miss about working at the school.

1. Sharing an office (not really an office, more like a room that was too small to be a classroom, but too big to be a closet) with Jane and Allyson.
2. Hearing how nice my clothes are, how good I smell and how pretty my hair is every morning from 6 to 9 year old kids (not just girls, some boys loved my shoes too:)
3. Repeating the phrase, “Please put the paper in the white flower tray on my desk in my office. Do you even know where my office is?”

(White tray is complements of Allyson who said she bought it for me because it looked Lacy and I seem like a Lacey kind of person...whatever that means:)

4. Answering the question, “What do you do here?”
5. Realizing that I like most middle school kids!
6. The pay check.
7. Hearing the kids say, “I am on green today!!!”
8. Walking kids to their car at the end of the day and how sweet their parents are to me (especially the woman who picks up her neighbor kids in the green Tahoe…she and her teenage son always bring a smile to my face!)
9. The rush of feeling like I accomplished something that made an impact on a kid, or improved a process or just made someone else’s life easier.
10. Picking Emrie up from the babysitter and having her smile when she sees me!

Things I won’t miss:

1. Waking Emrie up super early (even though she is a wonderful trooper and still greets me with a smile).
2. Feeling guilty about being late to pick her up from the babysitter (although we had wonderful babysitters who were super loving and understanding)
3. Hounding people to turn stuff in on time.
4. Checking e-mail and finding that someone replied to all, when it should only be replied to the sender (if you work for Imagine you TOTALLY know what I am talking about, especially when someone gets promoted and all the congratulations start rolling in).
5. Thinking about work and solutions to problems, to do lists, inbox issues, etc. while I should be playing with Emrie or talking with Phil.
5. Rushing home to make dinner and Phil rushing home to mow the lawn and barely getting everything done before it is time for bed.
6. Not having the time or energy to work out (and I am pretty lazy right now, I need some motivation).
7. Never being able to schedule appointments during the day and of course they don’t do stuff on weekends.
8. Meetings that go over by two hours and still don’t have a resolution.
9. Deadlines
10. Parents cussing me out (hey, I just work here, I didn’t make your kid miss the bus because they were hiding in the bathroom)

Thank you Miss Jane for my sweet parting gift...You truly are a joy to work with!