Excited :) Sad :( Nervous :?

I am so excited today!! I learned today that I will be teaching 2nd grade this year!! I had sent an email to my administration at the beginning of the summer stating that I was interested in changing grade levels because my future career goals include working my way into administration and I felt like I needed experiences in other grades besides just Kindergarten. They replied that we did not have any openings, so I thought that would be the end of it and I would continue teaching Kindergarten.

I received a phone call Monday afternoon from my Principal asking me to come over and meet with her on Wednesday. She said that she would like to discuss my email about changing teaching positions but that she did not want me to tell anyone why I was meeting with her. That left me all day Tuesday to wonder what would happen in our meeting. Today I went in and met with her, she offered me a position teaching 2nd grade. . .which I obviously accepted:) She too felt that this would be a good career move for me in order to gain other experiences.

After meeting with her I felt so excited and bubbly that I could barely contain myself. At the same time I felt sad and nervous. I felt sad because by moving to 2nd grade I am breaking up the final part of the "3 Musketeers". Lesley, Jamie and I have worked in Kindergarten together for the past 3 1/2 years and we work sooooo good together that people started calling us the "3 Musketeers". Lesley began our break-up by taking a job at the school where her children attend (which is totally understandable). Now by moving forward in pursuit of my career goals I have left the final "Musketeer" alone in Kindergarten with 2 new teachers to train and for that I am sad :( I know that Jamie will do a great job of "breaking in" the two new teachers, it will just be so different for all of us. However, I am sure that the 3 of us will remain close even if we aren't all teaching in the same hallway or even school!

At the same time I am nervous because I have taught Kindergarten for the past 3 1/2 years and had pretty much got settled in and comfortable with what I was doing. Now I turned that comfort upside down to explore and learn a whole new set of frameworks!!! I know that I will do a great job this year, I also know that my two new grade level partners will be there to help me out as I learn my new position.

I am also soooo anxious to get my current room packed up and move into my new room. However, I have to put those plans on hold until Monday :( Tomorrow our faculty is doing a day retreat which I will be attending, I will then be picked up by my family at the conference center and leave from there to Branson. We are going to Branson for the weekend to do back-to-school shopping!!!

Okay, now that I got all that off my chest. . .I am going to attempt to go to sleep (AGAIN!!).