Teaching ESL?

I've been passively looking for a job for a little while now and last weekend I learned that my sister in law Rachel was teaching ESL online. My friend had told me about it but I knew the hours weren't good and I wasn't interested at the time. At this point I'm more ready to deal with the bad hours to help ease the financial burden. I've been working on that process last week and will continue to do be very busy with it this week. I had my initial interview last night and I was pretty nervous. I haven't worked in 10 years and I certainly haven't had to deal with any kind of job interview in a LONG time. I watched youtube videos for a long time for tips and tricks and practiced my lesson a bunch of times. Rachel told me the job was pretty much a guarantee so I wasn't worried so much about that as I was about the pay offer. They base your pay on that one interview and I really wanted to get the top pay so I feel like I over prepared for it. I was disappointed that I didn't get the highest pay rate and felt that her assessment was a bit unfair and arbitrary but alas the pay is still good and I think the job will be good. I was disappointed because I had put so much into it but that's okay. Nothing that a few tears and a trip for ice cream can't help fix. It also helps to keep things in mind from a book called Feeling Good. The author points out that your work is not your worth which is really good and has been especially helpful for Scott. Another thing he tries to combat is perfectionism. He has as section called Dare to be Average! So I try to keep that in mind when I am being a little ridiculous about things. Dare to be Average! Yes!

Other than that things are same old same old. I think the sun should really think about coming out one of these days. Winter time can be hard. We learned tons of letters at my calligraphy class last week and I am terrible at it. Dare to be Average! Ha. I don't know how much time I will be able to put into practicing since I am trying to figure out a new job but we will see. I had my book club last week as well so that was good. Nothing much new with the kids. Gabby has been counting down the days for her birthday for awhile and some Cannons will be visiting soon so the kids are in stitches about that!

I forgot to add about Ryan's potty training progress, I have not thrown in the towel and he is indeed still making progress. This has been slow going for sure. He has the pee pretty much mastered I think (during the day) and a couple of days ago for the first time ever he came to me and told me he needed to go poo and he went on the potty. That was amazing!!! Slowly but surely.

Haha!