So much has been happening this past month! First off, my students competed at region and placed FIRST!!!! I am so proud of them and their efforts! The one act I've been doing with my students is entitled "The Spirit of Life" and it is taken from a book called "The Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust" the stories are laced with hope, overcoming fears, tenacity and the light that shines through the darkness. It is truly a beautiful piece and it has changed both me and my students.
Next week I am heading to Disneyland with about 100 students for out annual tour. It may sound crazy, but it is so much fun! I love my kids.
I've also been thinking a lot lately about progression. I've been attending my family ward for a year now and although I've enjoyed my time here, I keep wondering if it is time for me to go to the older singles ward. Lets face facts... besides my feeble attempts at the online dating world, I don't ever have opportunities to date. And last night, out of curiosity, I made the mistake of looking up women's fertility online... According to the sites I looked at, 35 is the age when everything really starts to head downhill and it becomes increasingly difficult to get pregnant... Awesome... Which means if I want children I needed to get married yesterday...
Two weeks ago I was convinced to go to the other ward. Then last Sunday, I felt like I should stay. Which is it?
Just feeling older I guess. I always felt like I would have all the time in the world to become a wife and a mother, now I'm not so sure.
I'm at a loss... What to do, what to do?
2 comments:
You are such an amazing teacher!
My mom and I will be at Disneyland next week too. Maybe we'll run into each other. :)
KJ,
I don't know all the answers to life. I know Heavenly Father has a plan for all of his children. I also believe if we are living right, we will know what we should do in this life as well and we will look back and see why our lives followed the coarse it did.
Two things about pregnancy and 35. 35 is when physicians start performing more test on pregnant women, but that is not the end all of having babies. Here in Cleveland, Ohio women are marrying later and begin having babies at 35 or 40. I know people here who are having children at 42. Because you are in Utah and Mormon it may seem like it is getting to late, but it is not.
Theatre does take the time needed to having meaningful relationships. Even now I have to chose how to involve myself in theatre because I need spend time with my family first. If and when I feel I need to get a teaching job I would try to be a speech or English teach first and a theatre teacher last, because even though theatre is my first love, it takes too many nights away. Somehow you would have to really try hard to make a relationship work around theatre. You can do it if the situation comes around, but it will take work.
As far as prompting a with wards, listen and act. I met my husband because I listened to a prompting about going to a ward I really had no connection with besides one friend who was going there, but if felt like the right thing to do.
I will pray for you. Know if things do not work out as you once hoped or planned that you will have the opportunity to be a wife and mother. It may be how or when you thought, but you will receive those blessings! Go to the temple!
Both my parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings are teachers and your influence changes life, especially in theatre because these kids are trying to. Find out who they are through art!
You are amazing!
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