Before we even moved back to Florida, I sent in my resume in response to several dance teaching opportunities.\u00a0 I continued to submit my resume after we moved until the fall openings stopped popping up.\u00a0 To my surprise, I never got a single call.\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m super fantastic or anything, but I thought I\u2019d at least get a call or two.\u00a0 But, Nada.<\/p>\n
I started Honeybun\u00a0in ballet classes in September at a local studio (I gave her the choice of ballet, gymnastics or tap\/jazz and she wanted to do ballet).\u00a0 I decided to keep my experience to myself at first.\u00a0 I have this thing with keeping my mommy separate from my profession (see \u201cMommy vs. Educator\u201d) but I realized maybe that\u2019s not the best for me and my future.\u00a0 So, when the studio was looking for volunteers to help with the June Performance preparations, I contacted the director and offered my help and experience.<\/p>\n
Turns out she really needs people with strong ballet experience (check!) who have loads of availability (check!).\u00a0 I went in last week for a \u201cteaching audition\u201d and she was so ecstatic about my teaching that\u00a0 I\u2019ve already been put on the teaching roster for the studio\u2019s 8 week summer program. This is fantastic opportunity but also a bit intimidating.<\/p>\n
For one, I\u2019ll have a newborn.\u00a0 Summer session starts 4 weeks after my due date and while I\u2019m not concerned about my physical recovery (assuming things go as well as the last two times) but leaving my sweet little dumpling that early may be hard, not to mention trying to figure out how we\u2019re going to work keeping him\/her fed while I\u2019m gone for a few hours.\u00a0 I keep reminding myself that I started working when Honeybun\u00a0was 6 weeks old and we survived easily, but it\u2019s still kind of scary after being home with my girls nearly constantly for the past 3 years.<\/p>\n
Luckily hubby gets 4 weeks paid paternity leave (I know, fantastic, huh?\u00a0 He just lost his pension and other benefits in exchange\u2026.) and we are timing it to coincide with when Honeybun\u00a0gets out of school and coincidentally when I will start working.\u00a0 This will be very helpful for the first 4 weeks and we will only require childcare the last 4 weeks (which will also help our finances, we\u2019ll actually get to keep everything I make!).<\/p>\n
I also haven\u2019t taught at all in over a year and haven\u2019t taught regularly since before we moved to Dublin over 3 years ago.\u00a0 I\u2019m not concerned that I\u2019m out of practice or that I\u2019ve forgotten anything, it\u2019s just intimidating jumping back in so quickly with advanced dancers at a really great studio.<\/p>\n
I know things will work out and I\u2019m worrying for nothing, but it\u2019s still always scary to jump into something new, especially when it\u2019s something that will affect your children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Before we even moved back to Florida, I sent in my resume in response to several dance teaching opportunities.\u00a0 I continued to submit my resume after we moved until the fall openings stopped popping up.\u00a0 To my surprise, I never got a single call.\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m super fantastic or anything, but I thought I\u2019d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-mommys-life","category-baby-business","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2437,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/2437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}