Baby Steps

Friday marked the first, very official career fair for yours truly... and I was completely unprepared. For some unknown reason, I never received any email notification or anything. Luckily, Twitter saved the day as one of my undergrad friends commented on how he was heading out to the event. I threw on my clothes, printed off countless resumes, and slammed my portfolio all into a shiny black purse and flew to the Alumni building.

And... I think it went really well! I talked to all the major districts in the KC area and got beyond excited. It seems like now is the perfect time for math educators and waiting a year will pay off. Blue Valley is opening an entirely new high school next year, Gardner already has a high school position open and will be conducting interviews soon, and Kansas City Kansas PS seems really engaged and enthusiastic.

But... where will we be in a year? I know I've alluded to this, but there's a 50/50 chance that we won't even be back in the KC area next year. It all depends on where my man gets a job. Where ever that will be it's where God needs us to be... I just hope that I am able to find a teaching job in a relatively timely fashion to prevent inevitable panic attacks, sleepless nights and information overload of cramming an entire year worth of planning into a month at best.

If push comes to shove and I don't find a job in a timely fashion, I will grit my teeth and survive. Better people than I have escaped frantic planning with minor bumps and bruises; I hope I can model after them!

In addition to day dreaming about future vocational opportunities, Chad and I have become quite the culinary cavaliers! In the last week we've made creamy chicken enchiladas, turkey sandwiches with a mock aoli spread, biscuits and gravy (my very first gravy!), and la piece de la resistance: Chicken Cordon Bleu with sinfully creamy mashed potatoes, roasted carrots and a divine butter gravy. Although it took 2 hours to cook, both of us gleamed with pride as we sat at the table reminiscing over past food-failures. And after all that cooking, neither one of us was hungry enough to eat the food!!

This week will be a slightly less demanding menu on both my time and waistline (oh, but it was SO good!) with the major meal being Chicken Parmigiana from scratch to celebrate our 3rd month of marriage. It's been so long since Chad and I have counted month-iversaries. It's kinda cute! On the 15th, it will be 3 months of marriage and a week shy of 5 years, 5 months dating.

Oh my, time flies!