If I remember correctly, you are on a cart, right? Although I gripe all
the time about it, I have made it work for me and though it isn't the best
darn way to go, it is a way.
I try to have a Christian perspective on things. Sometimes having the
least, is actually the most, in the eyes of our Lord. It has taught me
humility, cooperation, patience, forgiveness, long-suffering, tolerance,
and many other virtues, that I would not have earned had I been a
"regular" teacher. Is that all bad? I don't see many of these virtues in
the full-time teachers, yet I know many of them are absolutely wonderful
people.
So, we all need to look at the other side of our situations. We're not in
a 3rd world country, we DO have art for our kids, and a handsome salary
compared to many other people, etc., etc.,
Today an aide and I were discussing our gripes about our kids struggling
to be independent and having great difficulties, (they're over 21). She
said she'd been talking to a parent about it and she was stopped in her
tracks when the woman reminded her not to be so hasty to see the children
leave the next, her daughter was paralyzed 15 years ago in a car accident
on her way to college and has been a paraplegic every since.
amen
