Know it alls and Frustrations

I love my new school...I really do. But at every school there are always those that seem to know everything and make it their point to show you that you know nothing. We have reading groups for an hour and I had mentioned to one of our reading specialists that I did not have the para that I had been assigned and so I was a bit overwhelmed with trying to work with my 3 small groups while 8 or 9 kids were in my room supposed to be reading independently. It wouldn't seem like such a big deal, except that the 5th grade teachers only have 1 group of 5 kids and have no kids reading independently. I just thought we could spread them out a little. But evidently I am wrong. So I will be doing my best this next week to just keep quiet and hope that eventually one of them will come in my room and have an "OH!" moment and get me some help. In the meantime, I will be working my butt off to write back 20 or so kids in their reading journals. So much for my excitement over my 15!
On another note, last night I hung out with about 10 of the teachers from my new school. It was a lot of fun and I am so blessed to work with such a great group of teachers. It was great to hear how everyone had frustrations just like mine. There are some of us with kids, and some who are just trying to have kids, and some that aren't in that realm at all yet. One of the teachers shared about how in the last 2 years that she had lost 2 babies. Evidentally she has a very rare autoimmune disorder that causes her body to attack the baby in utero. She lost her first at 32 weeks and the second at 24 weeks after trying some new medications that were designed to help her. She is currently seeing a specialist in Chicago who is trying to find a way to stop her body from attacking the fetus, but they haven't found one yet. My heart hurt for her. I can't imagine how much it would hurt to lose one at so far along, yet alone two. It makes me feel so incredibly blessed to have a healthy child at home. Please keep Karen in your thoughts and prayers.