Starting Over is Scary

Ahh summer...

Summer officially started yesterday. Although I was at school most of the day today trying to make all of the stuff that I had for the biggest room imaginable fit into the smallest room possible. I have been trying to think of what I will be doing now that I don't have school. I was working 12 hours the last couple of weeks so it has been an abrupt change. So here is a bit of what I will be doing to fill the summer. All of those appointments I have been putting off, eye, dentist, allergist. I am meeting with a realtor to possibly look at a few places tomorrow. I am also going strawberry picking tomorrow at an orchard with a friend and her 2 kids. I will be watching those 2 kids occasionally throughout the summer. Hmm, I haven't done laundry in about a month (yeah pretty bad) so I can do that as well as organize my closet. I am dog sitting for a week. My parents are coming to visit the first week in July and I may join them in Glacier for a week. My brother just bought a house in Cleveland that needs a lot of work. I agreed to help him pick out paint and flooring and those kind of details. I need to move my stuff from MT to MI but I am not exactly sure how yet. I also want to come and visit in ID for a little while. I have big plans to see some sights in Michigan like Mackinac Island and bridge. My favorite place here is Lake Michigan so I am going to have to go there a few times. I am going to try to learn how to skate this summer so that I can start in a beginner adult hockey league in the fall. I don't have the best ice skate coordination but I am trying. Then I have a meeting for school in the middle of August. That is when I will be trying to oganize my closet-sized classroom so that I can fit in there with a few kids instead of just stuff like right now. I am sure the summer will go very quickly even though it may feel like it is moving slowly. My class gave me a large end of the year gift so here is a picture of us opening it.

posted by Erin @ 11:28 PM 2 comments

one last rush

Monday starts my last week of school. I really can't believe it is almost over already. We had our fun family activites earlier this week with a field trip to the zoo in Lansing and the kindergarten picnic. The parents organized the picnic for all 4 kindergarten classes in the building. Those are my favorite parties, the ones I don't have to plan or prepare. All of the parents gave me a substanial gift card to Target. I really do have a great group of parents. Now I have to finish assessments, report cards, and packing up my room. The building needs to be emptied on the last day of school (a day we still have kids) so that renovations can start right away. I will be in working this weekend trying to get some of that done since my report cards are not finished either. Those were actually supposed to be done today, but it didn't happen. That is my exciting weekend, report cards and packing. I am overwhelmed. I can tell when I am stressed because I get sick. Last week it was the flu and this week it is strep. Of course your body shuts down just when you need it to do more. I am having a hard time with the packing because next year I will be at a different school. I am moving over to another elementary to teach cognitively impaired kids as well as learning disabled kids. So I am leaving a school, a principal, and a staff that I really love to start over with a new building, principal, staff and Job! It is rough to start over again. I feel like all I do is start over. I may have to start over again after the next year too because of changing numbers and positions at the schools. Everyone asks if special ed is what I wanted to do. I can't really answer that question. Right now I don't know what I don't want to do. I guess I need to figure that out first.

posted by Erin @ 10:04 PM 2 comments