I am done stewing about this PTA thing.  It was on my mind all night long after our meeting up until I finally fell asleep and it was the first thing I thought about when I woke up this morning.  I sent out an email again this morning to the 50+ people and didn't get a response from them.  I finally did get a response from a gal that said she would be willing to do a co-president with someone else because she is already going to be 1st VP at her younger child's elementary school.  I thought about it and decided I could do a co-president with her.  She is a really nice gal and I think we could work well together.  Then I got an email from another person on our committee that thinks she has a strong lead from a gal who has been one of our past presidents.  She would actually be GREAT at it.  She communicates very well and is a take charge kind of person.  She wants the weekend to think about it.  I really hope she pulls through.  Me and the other gal were going to do it in order to save our PTSA so we will not be hurt in the least if we are not president. 

In it all I came to the realization that I truly do not care for our current president.  She wants everything done "her" way when this is an organization for our children, parents and teachers.  Who does she think she is?  Her comment, which was directed at me since I am the chairman about how our committee cannot disban until we find a president or our PTA will fail really urked me.  Like I said I am not an aggressive person so I didn't say anything.  However, one of the other committee members who is more aggressive snapped back at her saying "It isn't as if we haven't tried.  We have contacted EVERYONE on the lists we have.  We are at a place where we are out of names."  I have been on or worked with the PTA for several years and I have never ran across someone like this person.  I have totally stressed myself out for the past 24 hours because she wants the beloved slate hung up in the office 25 days prior to it needing to be up there.  Well...sugar...you can kiss my grits!!!  We will get the slate up by the due date and we WILL have a president and THANK GOODNESS it won't be YOU!! 

Not another thought about it.  I am at peace now.

Good morning!  Have I ever mentioned on here that I don't like snow?  Uuuugh!  We received ANOTHER ice and snow storm last night. Both were fairly mild but enough to cancel school today.  I know all the kiddies are excited BUT this now means they will have to go to school past Memorial Day unless a teacher professional day is cancelled in the spring and they can make the day up then.

The family didn't post much on Jaxon's website except that he is now out of surgery and the transplant has taken place.  The family had been up pretty much for 2 days straight except for some catnaps here and there.  They said they would post about the surgery sometime today.  I do know that there was alot of trauma in his stomach area so when they went to close him up the result ended up being pretty tight.  So they are going to keep him in a drug induced coma for several days in order to allow the swelling to go down so that he is not in so much pain.  Poor little guy...only 3 years old.  The parents are going to try to get as much sleep as possible while he is in the coma so that they can be there for him as he begins his recovery.  Please continue to pray for precious Jaxon, his family, the doctors and nurses, the donor family, and for little Tyler (only 1 year old) gets his new liver real soon.

We had our PTA meeting last night and things didn't go very well.  I mean they didn't go bad either. Our current PTA president was a little snippy with us because we have not found a PTA president for next year.  Our Nominating Committee has either called or emailed 50+ people and we cannot find one person who is even remotely interested in being president.  We can't force someone to be president.  The job is a big job and most people do not have the time to do it.  Which brings me to what I have been mulling over all night long.  It was my goal to be PTA president at some point while Hylari was in middle school.  Since she is in 6th grade now that leaves me 2 years to do it.  I have not held a position on the board outside of a secretary position so I do not feel confident taking on the president position this year.  I was looking forward in being the 2nd VP and learing the reigns and then was going to put my name in for president the following school year.  However, now that we are having such a hard time finding one I wonder if there is a chance that I could take it on this year.  I talked to my husband last night about it and he supports me but brought up the same cons that I had already thought about myself.  One being....talking in front of a crowd.  I can do it but unless I am 100% confident in what I am talking about I get nervous and being to trip over my words and end up sounding stupid.  Two....since I work full time I cannot be at the school everyday and invovled in every activity that goes on.  I think my boss would be extremely flexible with me and allow me to attend anything I needed to but I am certainly not going to take advantage of that and be at the school every day.  My boss won't be back until Friday so I won't be able to talk to her about it until then anyway.  The third thing is I am not an agressive person.  I am not the type to just go up to people and start talking and you really need to be like that as a president.  Is it something that I need to improve on?  Yes.  Would being in the president position force me to do things like that? Yes.  I could certainly grow from taking the president position.  The fourth thing is my family relies on me ALOT.  I have alot of responsibility at home that taking on this position would probably put more on me than I can handle.  But it is only a committment for 10 months and I think it would be a rewarding opportunity.  I am going to call two friends of mine that were PTA presidents in the past and ask them about their thoughts about the position.  One of them I have asked to be president this year and she absolutely refuses.  But she has been a PTA president on the elementary level for 4 years so I think she is really looking for a break from it all.  I just don't know what to do.  Half of me says yes lets do it and the other half says no way!  I will continue to pray about....will you too?

Have a great day!