First Field Trip By Myself

          I'm just amazed at my life right now! The Vitalbiome from Plexus is helping my so much. Yet at the same time so is God or I can see Him more in life. It is still hard to explain for those of you who don't understand. Today was the first field trip I had without my co-teacher. I had a floater but it was also her second day on the job.
           The field trip was to the Gardens of the Ozarks in Fayetteville so it was a long drive. It was also a busy morning before we went. We had an art lab and lunch right after that. We took our backpacks with us because somewhere in between I had to put sunscreen on them before we left. The art lab was something my aged kids couldn't do so that was hard. It was writing a script like thing for a motion picture movie. I had to do half of art and put sunscreen on by myself because the other teacher was on lunch break. We left for the trip and I will admit I was a little worried and people could tell by myself but I didn't cry at all today. I was worried because I had no idea what to expect on the field trip since it is my first summer and all. I didn't get my lunch break until after we got back from the field trip.

           We loaded the bus at the right time and headed off to the Gardens. It took us about 45 mins to get there. The children were good on the bus no problems at all. When we got to the gardens, we only had about 10 mins. to look around, which would usually freak me out because I would want to get as much as I could showing the kids in that time. Today I didn't even think about it. We just walked around calmly and on our way to the butterfly house. We did get to see the treehouse and some of the other kids' area things that they had at the gardens. After we saw the butterfly house, we walked back to the bus. The children were a little rowdy on the way back but it could have been worse. There were some children I had to keep getting onto about legs in the aisle and to sit down. 

           I will tell you though that on the trip, I cannot stress enough how calm I felt. If I wasn't on Vitalbiome, I probably would have been sleepy that morning and really upset by the time we got back to school but I wasn't. I was even thinking about talking to one of the higher ups about the scheduling and what went wrong but I decided to push that aside and that it was okay. Once we got back to the school, I got to go on my lunch break so I went and got some coffee. I got back from my lunch break and saw that there were 3 teachers in my room so that was a big surprised to me but I didn't say anything because I knew they were leaving. Two of them told me how many I had and then went back to their rooms. Then the front desk sent one of them back up because they thought my other teacher was leaving at 3, which she wasn't. She was leaving at 5.

             With the other teacher in there, I calmly went downstairs and told them that I had an extra floater in my room if they needed her anywhere else, which they did. The floater went to the other room where she was needed. After she left, I started an art project with the children because I knew that I had to do something to get me through the 2 hours of nothing scheduled for the children to do. I also had a feeling that I was going to get my afternoon 15 min. break so it made the time go by faster. That was sort of my fault because I chose not to take one but things were so confusing and messed up. I think it was just easier for all of us besides I'm use to not taking 15 mins. breaks. I've done it before. 

             That is another time I could tell that the Vitalbiome was working.  To be honest, at my other jobs, if I had to stay that long or longer without a break, I would have gotten mad and the children could tell too but I didn't today. I also thought how funny it is that God reminded me of patience and taught me more about patience 3 days before all this happened. I had no idea that this was going to happen but God did so I know a lot of it was patience from God too. It was just another way of God showing me too that I can really trust Him because He knows what He is doing, whether it is 3 days into my future or 6 years into my future, He knows what is best. I really love how the pills gets me calm enough to where I can think about things like that but it is sad that today's world need something like that at the same time. We have gotten too busy with worldly things and stories like these should show you things like that. 

             I hope these pills are just something to lean into for right now while I am learning how to trust and lean into God. It would be amazing if I could do all of these things without the pills someday. Like they are just a tool for now to train me and then later I will be off of them. That's my goal at least. It is a small goal but it would make a worlds of difference in my life. I just can't see myself staying on any kind of pills for the rest of my life.