Do you know?

I cannot even begin to tell you how heavy my heart is tonight......I will tell you why, in a second, and I will also just let you know that this post has almost nothing to do with my students so this is your out now to stop reading.

First I want to tell you guys how incredibly important it is to have an amazing administration in a school. I will explain; imagine! you are on a plane and the mechanics people and whatever make sure that the plane is all safe and all the bolts are tight and that it is safe to fly, and then the people in the tower make sure that the air is clear for takeoff and things look good! And then the pilot and the co-pilot are sitting in the cockpit and they're blind, and they also love to drink heavily. AND they don't have hands so like....I don't know.....THEY LITERALLY CANNOT FLY THE PLANE! And low and behold...you crash. Its pretty much the same exact thing with a school. The teachers and the support staff and the secretaries and everyone else in the school can work their tail ends off to do the best job possible and keep their classroom in check, but if the administration isn't on their game, if they're a bunch of handless-blind-partying pilots......well the school will crash and burn.

Maybe thats dramatic....but in all reality it isn't. A teacher can only do so much without amazing supports from their administration.

With that being said. I have come to admire, appreciate, depend on and cherish one of my administrators. They have been given this amazing opportunity to move on in our district and they completely and absolutely deserve it. I have never met a person more giving and devoted to their job and the people that their job impacts. Tomorrow is their last day with our school and selfishly I wish that it wasn't. She has done more for our school and the children in it than she will ever know. She is the most humble and wonderful person. I am almost positive whoever replaces her will not be able to fill her shiny blue shoes.

I would not have been able to push through some of my days if I didn't have the support from her that I had received. She has made me a more confident teacher and I don't honestly know how I'm going to function without her.....as I sit here being a huge baby and maybe crying a little I am going to reflect on some of my favorite times with her:

-She read The Book With No Pictures to our 1st grade classes last year and they were in stiches over how funny and entertaining she was.
- She is a fierce disciplinarian, she always enforces fairness, respect for all human kind and love. Tough love sometimes...but love non the less.
-When she popped into my room last year and my student wanted to read her a dinosaur book he had, so she ran into the hall and came back into my room with her arms inside her shirt growling and snorting like a T-Rex.
-When she is ALWAYS willing to give a teacher a break if they are at their whits end, which I know never happens....
-Her intense love for the Cardinals
-How selfless she is, she will work even if she is super freaking sick.....and rock while doing it
-When she came out and played with our students at recess. THEY LOVED IT 


I am going to miss her horribly bad. I know she will still be around, but I just wanted her to know how much she truly meant to me and pretty much everyone I know in our school. We love her. And even though she hates hugs and little people touching her, she is going to get a TON of little people and big people hugs tomorrow.