project: classroom

Well folks, I’ll be a true blue 1st grade teacher this fall (rather than a traveling one) - a fact that I am pretty thrilled about! (By the way, don’t you worry: This is not turning into a teaching blog... but nor are my projects limited to home by any means ; ) ) Well, inheriting a classroom comes with it’s blessings as well as it’s challenges and yours truly has spent the past week discovering the ends and outs of both. I’m mostly in the organizational phase of the this project right now, so my days look something like this:

9:30 - Arrive at school and carry in a bundle of supplies...

9:31 - Flip on the light, put things down, then ponder where to begin...

9:33 - Reason that things have to get worse before they’ll get better and begin pulling more out of the closet...

11:40 - Wonder where in the world the last 2 hours have gone and why my room looks more disastrous than when I began...

1:00 - Rearrange some furniture to encourage myself then try to envision the end result. Strike out. Back to work... 

1:30 - Resolve that my problem is a lack of storage containers. Make list for Target... 

3:30 - Realize that I haven’t eaten real food or peed since 7am. Head to Target...

4:40 - Check out, stare at my grand total, pray that the government appreciates my efforts to educate the future generation in a safe and orderly environment come tax season, then tote all 20 rubermaid boxes out to the car... 

5:20 - Come home and plan for the next day, rearrange my model room on graphing paper, label library books, scour blogs for inspiration...

7:00 - Husband reminds me that we must eat to live, so we make dinner together.

And that, my friends, is a day in the life. Actually, make that a week in the life, because that’s pretty much exactly what all 4 days (Thank you Labor Day!) of mine have looked like. Yes. I’ve been to Target every day this week. But I’m lovin’ it. And what keeps me going? Well besides all the obvious answers of how I love my job and am super pumped about have my own room, etc, etc... I have this vision, a project of sorts, that I can’t justifiably make happen until things are organized. So here it is - my motivation in jpg:

{Project Part 1: Transform ordinary bookshelf into a cousin of this fabulous thing... I’m thinking chicken wire and felt should do the job, however, I’m open to other ideas as well.}

{Project Part 2: Give all the fake-wood furniture a coat of fresh white} 

{and finally, Project Part 3: Tissue paper pompoms to mark centers and flags just for the fun of it!}

PS.  We’re trying out a new blog design these days... decided to keep it clean and simple. Hope you folks like it as much as we do :)