I opened my Teachers Pay Teachers Yearbook this week and had one of those quiet, sit-with-it-for-a-minute moments.
I started my store back in 2013, and for a while there, it really took off. I was creating resources constantly. Posting. Sharing. Building. Dreaming big.
And then… life happened. Hard seasons. Overwhelming seasons. The kind where your energy goes toward surviving, not creating. What used to be weekly product uploads slowly turned into:
- one resource a month
- then every couple of months
- then once or twice a year
I stopped promoting and sharing. I put that part of my life on the back burner, not because I didn’t care, but because I simply didn’t have the capacity.
So when I looked at this year’s TPT stats, I didn’t expect much.
But here’s what surprised me:
Even in my quiet years, my resources still reached real teachers, in real classrooms, helping real students.
Teachers still found them. Saved them. Used them. Left kind, thoughtful reviews.
That matters.
This yearbook wasn’t about rankings or numbers; it was a reminder that meaningful work doesn’t disappear just because you step back for a while.
And now? I’m finding myself with more space. More clarity. More energy.
So here’s to 2026. To showing up again. To creating with intention. To creating even more resources that can help and support real teachers and students.
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