  So that 'big desicion' I referred to a few days ago...yeah. I made it today. I went with my gut instinct. As I knew I would. I weighed the pros and cons but mostly I just went with what I 'felt'. I haven't slept much so I'll give you more details later.
But I made a choice and I think I feel good about it. Anyway, it's too late now. The desicion refers to my professional life. Nothing to get too excited about, folks! I'm not absconding from New York and fleeing to Tibet. On the contrary, I am remaining at CMOM, which is where I belong and where I am happy. Today was my last class in the Bronx and I cried all the way home on the A train as I read the 'goodbye' cards my students wrote me. They were so beautiful. Many of my kids speak English as a second language (if at all) and their sentence structure was amazingly well done. And these were only cards! I can't believe how much they have grown and matured in only one semester.
Two kids used 'alliteration' in their notes. 'Miss Sarah is a Super Splendid Special Teacher! Thanks for teaching us about books! ' Today is one of those days I feel blessed to be a teacher. When Jose eagerly showed me the copy of 'Cat In the Hat' that he bought with the money his uncle gave him for his 7th birthday and asked me to sign it for him because I am 'his favoritist reading teacher' I sobbed all over again. 
