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.
