Opportunity of a Lifetime

So in less than a few months, I went from being a stay at home mom to a mom who got her job back. I was very excited to have my job, but was really worrying about how I was going to handle pumping at work, a new school, and taking care of a three year old and infant. My worries would soon be diminished. In my situation, it took quitting my job to get noticed for my efforts. On Aug. 1st, I received a phone call from our director of personnel about a new position that had been created due to a grant. The job was brand new and I would help to shape it. It is basically a literacy support position for three Title One schools in our district that don't qualify for extra teachers like our other Title One schools do. Since I had worked in a Title One school for eight years, they thought that I would be a good fit for the job. I would travel to three schools on a rotating schedule and work with Kindergarten through Second Grade students on guided reading and other literacy related skills. This is pretty much my dream job. I get to spend all day focusing on the at-risk reading students in a small group to even 1-1 setting. I jumped on this opportunity, knowing that if the grant money ran out in a few years, I would still have a position in the district. My worries about going back to the classroom while pumping and with young kids had vanished. I was one lucky woman. My new job allows me to set my own schedule, pump when I need to (for the most part), and also not have to worry about sub plans if my kids are sick, which seems to be often!