Storytime went ok – not great, just ok.  The thing about being nervous is that it can wreak an otherwise great storytime:  I’m not having as much fun, I’m doubting myself…and then everyone else doesn’t have as much fun, and they start to look at me a bit funny, as if they’re thinking, “She’s not all that.  Hmmmm.”

And, there are the stupid errors.  At the end of the storytime, I said, “Ok, let’s sing our closing song now!!  The song we always sing at the end of storytime!  [I inserted the name of the song here, and I’m honestly not sure whether I said “The More We Get Together” or “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”]  Here we go!!”  And then I started to sing “The More We Get Together,” which is our opening song, not our closing song.  I caught myself halfway, finished the song, and admitted that it was the first storytime of the year and I’d made a mistake.  And then we sang the correct song, “If You’re Happy and You Know It.”  Sigh.

Let’s hope I’m not nervous again tomorrow morning, for my first Mother Goose on the Loose program in a while.  Sigh.  (And hopefully I’ll sleep tonight, too.  That would be good.)

Storytimes start again today, and I’m ridiculously nervous.

I’ve done this particular storytime (Toddler ~ Babies) before; I know more than half of the kids and parents who will be attending; and I stayed a half hour late on Saturday and got to work a half hour early today (off the clock, of course) to do prep work.  And, as usual, I did prep work yesterday (Sunday), and when one of the books I’d planned on using was sub-par, Jim drove me to the library at Patriots half time to pick up a different book.

There is absolutely NO reason for me to be nervous.  But I am.  Wish me luck!