you might be a teacher if...

• you realize that a wet paper towel and a band aid will heal anything.
• you are late for everything in your life except for PE, lunch, and dismissal
• you love high heels but settle for flat, comfy shoes from 7am-430pm weekdays.
• you can say, "you are driving me CRAZY!" to a bunch of six year olds and they just laugh.
• you get excited when your autistic student tries mashed potatoes.
• you hurriedly have your students make "I'll Miss You Cards" for the leaving college student while she's out of the room, and...you succeed.
  
• you leave soon after the kids, a lot, and you save the getting ready for the morning during journal time...(i mean, i don't do that. but some people might...)
• you need a nap, basically every day.
• you get so stinkin' ready for a break.
• breaks like thanksgiving, christmas and spring break are your saving grace.
• depending on the year, you get back after a long break and realize how much you missed those kids that drive you crazy.
• every year, at the end of may, you get sentimental over the kids that drove you crazy. how could any other class be as wonderful as this one?
• one day you think there has to be something better than teaching and the next...you wonder how you got lucky enough to get a job this great.
• you hate 10:00pm, because after your nap right after school, you're not sleepy enough to go to bed but you know if you don't go to bed, the next day's nap will be even longer. geez.
• you write silly blogs about being a teacher.

good night, all.