Work work work...

I didn't get a chance to update the blog yesterday because of the very thing for which I am thankful!

I knew the instant I left my job in San Jose, it could be disastrous. I was walking away from what little seniority I had to possibly start over at the bottom of the totem pole. And to make matters worse, once I got to Oregon I discovered just how bad the teaching job market had become... I scoured Craig's List week after week to find anything that would make me a little extra cash, only to be continuously disappointed.

One day when I was feeling especially discouraged and desperate, I ran across a job ad for Mad Science. My school back in San Jose hosted Mad Science after school, so I was very familiar with the program. They only hire on a part-time basis, which is what I was looking for. And they pay enough to make it worth it. Plus, I get to work with elementary kids again! I interviewed, went through training, and haven't looked back since!

Now that the school year is over, I'm helping out with the summer day camps. I had a day of training yesterday to see how the summer program runs, and I couldn't be more excited to run my own camp full of kids! It was so much fun to be a little more laid back with the kids, yet still see their faces light up as we performed our experiments. I don't get to run my camp until the week of July 11th, so I still have a little more time to prepare for the chitlins!

Given that I have a few empty weeks, I wasn't quite sure how to fill my time. However, a friend of Sara's was in need of some subbing with her part-time nanny gig. By some miracle, her vacation dates coincided with my time off! I'm now helping out the family for the next two weeks, and am so excited to get to snuggle a baby again! He's 9 months old, and so absolutely perfect! I really could not have asked for a better kid to hang out with, and a better family to work for!

So today, I am blessed with work. Even in this rough economy, and for all I thought I was giving up, I've been able to find ways to fill my time (and my wallet!) while having so much fun with the little ones. I feel as though both of these opportunities just fell into my lap at just the right time. It's times like this that I need to remember that things happen when the time is right. I can't worry about the future, or how things are going to work out. Because, after all, to quote Baz Luhrman, "worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubblegum."