Jen is officially a teacher!

Congratulations on surviving your first day teaching the 3rd grade! It took a lot of perseverance to get to this point. It would have been easy to quit along the way and there would have been some good excuses, but you did it and I am so proud of you.
This reminds me of my favorite poem and it seems fitting.

Robert Frost (1874–1963).

1. The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.