An open letter to @taylorswift (hopefully this time it posts & doesn’t just disappear!) Dear Taylor, I know you don’t really know me (you follow me but we’ve never chatted on here nor have I been acknowledged but that’s ok! I know there’s lots of us & ONE DAY you’ll see my post) & this is long, but bare with me please! I just need to say THANK YOU for getting me through my toughest week yet teaching, and also through life. You see you’ve been there for me a lot unknowingly. Growing up with Cystic Fibrosis & chronic pancreatitis, I NEVER thought I’d be able to become a teacher, but I have. So first, thanks for all those times during the hospital I’ve been able to listen to you & make me feel so much better (I told your mom this before, and met you the same night but I never told you, because I was too awestruck). I only wish you came out sooner because your first album didn’t come out until I was 14 & man could I have used you sooner lol but anyways this past week though, man it was tough. You see as a first year teacher I’m still in an “internship” (despite having my teaching degree) which basically means lots of observations & lots of extensive paperwork & putting together stuff to prove myself. Well I had my first all day observation on Halloween of all things! I teach Pre-K (actually 3 year olds, I know 3 y/o in an actual school setting seems crazy but we learn & have so much fun), but as you can imagine I was NERVOUS. My kids come from low income too & not necessarily safe neighborhoods so I knew they couldn’t trick or treat safely so besides trick or treating at school, I also got them a goodie bag with only good candy, gifts, and a Little Red Riding Hood book. So I knew they’d be hyped up & boy were they. I was so worried about it because I thought I failed my observation, but I didn’t! I actually passed. But I had to wait until Friday to find out. On Tuesday though I found out I needed to have my “KTIP binder” together aka tons of evidence proving I’ve been to professional developments & that I’ve been doing thorough lessons & communication with parents. I didn’t think I needed this done until another month, no one told me I needed it on the day of the observation. Well thankfully I was granted an extension until Thursday but I was STRESSED OUT getting it together. On top of this my dog has diabetes & has been sick so I have been a hot mess crying almost all night because I was so stressed & worried & sleep deprived. So where do you come in @taylorswift? First, I’ve been listening to you all week working on lesson plans & as I was stressing over my binder. On Wednesday I was exhausted & busy & stressing & guess who decided to release a behind the scenes of glorious? YOU DID! So that MADE MY NIGHT once I got home & could watch it. I literally texted my bf saying I was “in my happy place” because of you. I stopped crying & started smiling like a dork because if your video. So thank you for that. Then Thursday, my Reputation sweatshirt came in!!!!!! I already bought one shirt but decided I needed the sweater & rewarded my hard work with one & it came on the best of days too because again, I teach 3 year olds & just imagine 3 year olds tired from less sleep the night before, yet on a sugar high. They were CRAZY that day. They tested my patience like never before. But again, just like magic, you saved me again that night. Thursday was my 5th night in a row of less than 3hrs of sleep a night so I was EXHAUSTED & now running a fever I believe due to stress & lack of sleep (& a crappy immune system to begin with). I was hoping for sleep Thursday since I did get my ktip binder done, but Mother Nature & my dogs had other plans. My dog kept waking up whining & also peeing all over the house & then it started to storm. So here I thought I went to bed early so I’d get sleep...HAH! Nope. 3 hours after falling asleep I was back awake & never fell back to sleep because of storms then too. Good news? YOU SAVED THE MORNING! I had little sleep but I listened to “Call it What you want” on replay all morning. This is by far my favorite song yet so anyways, you yet again saved me from having a complete breakdown that morning due to no sleep again...if it weren’t for your song coming out, I don’t know how the day would have gone so THANK YOU! Anyways, my original post that never actually posted was much shorter yet way better worded so I’m sorry this is so long, if you read this far, THANK YOU. I just wanted to let you know how in what may seem fairly insignificant to you, you made my week. You saved me from myself. Love, Chelsea Ps: shoutout to Noah who this pic was taken on Friday shortly after he also helped make my day by touching my leg during story time randomly saying, “I love you Ms. chelsea” for the first time ever. He never says that & isn’t usually a kid to show affection much so this meant so much.
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