DECISION MADE

After today, Life as I know it will never be the same. A decision has been made and acted upon. After thirty years as a public school music teacher, I resigned my job today. Months and months and months of weighing the pros and cons..... making lists....budgets....investments....looking at the practical side of the decision. Then the emotional side. This year has been one of reaching the highest level of performance in my teaching and in my students' musicianship. After the peak in February, the depression followed. This has long been a pattern in my career, but this high and low were the most extreme that I have experienced. Quite scary, I must admit. Today, I can say with complete certainty that God worked through my emotional roller coaster to bring me to the right decision for my life, the choice to begin my retirement from full time teaching. Retirement from teaching??? No way! Just firing my employer and going out on my own. Seventeen more days as Mrs. Lollar. Can't wait to meet Ms. Kathy again.