Ah yes... being a teacher, I really, really don't want to be discovered on the internet by my students, or parents of students... Thing is, I've probably given out enough information inadvertently for someone who knows me to figure out who I am here, anyway. One day I might just step out from behind the mask (probably not until I am pregnant), but for now... Butterfly Warrior comes from what my first and middle names mean. It's something that I have on many occasions taken to heart and used as a source of strength.
When I first met my DH he would talk to me about butterflies - how they start out as caterpillars and then go into a cocoon and emerge as a beautiful butterfly... and there's nothing they can do to make it go any faster, and trying to get a butterfly out of its cocoon before it's ready just results in a crippled butterfly that can't fly. I thought it was interesting as at that point in time I hadn't told him about what my name meant, but butterflies keep appearing in my life at different times... I now take them as a little reminder of who I am, and what I am becoming, and that the process isn't always easy or quick, but rushing through it, trying to get to the other side without enduring all of it means you get there without all the beauty and wonder...
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