Gambling on a Garden

Well, we are now pretty much done with Week 4 of our Research class, and have been working for weeks now on developing our plans for our Action Research Projects.  I have posted my project draft, gone over it with my principal, and still feel like I'm standing at the starting block waiting for the gun to fire.  When we looked at the draft, she agreed that so far, it looked good, but without having the full support of our PTA Board for the go-ahead, we are kind of stuck.  So, as it stands right now, even with the support of my principal, my PTA president and other members of our Campus Leadership team, we are waiting for the final word to know if we have a project or not.  The board meets early this week, and as soon as they do, I will have my answer.  I will either be able to start running the race to complete the project, or I will be desperately looking into my other options for my "new" project.  If we are voted against, I will be disappointed on many levels.  I will feel that a wonderful experience for our students will be lost in not being able to use the garden as a hands-on learning tool.  I will also feel a bit exhausted from the last 4 weeks of work, knowing that in a sense, they will have been for naught in that I'll have to completely redesign my action research plan and basically start from scratch.  So, I am not really a gambling type of girl, I usually tend to be very conservative and not much of a risk taker with the big things in life, but this project has definitely been a gamble.  I have faith in our project being accepted, but boy am I nervous.  Since I am unable to attend the meeting (it's a closed meeting), I'm going to have to wait with baited breath to hear the outcome, and then hopefully set my plan of action, whatever it is, into play.  This could be an interesting week!