All Packed Up

Saying good-bye to my kids was one thing, but cleaning out my classroom was another!

As a teacher I'm constantly collecting things and won't throw them out because I always think to myself, "I'm sure I'll use that one day!" So when it came time to start packing I was a little overwhelmed. I had three huge blessings...

1. Since I moved classrooms last year I was already fairly organized and had a lot of my kindergarten stuff already packed up and labeled.

2. The sweet Katie Chong one day showed up at school and had bought me 10 file folder boxes so that I could easily pack up my filing cabinet...THANK YOU MRS. CHONG!

3. My team agreed to use several of my pieces of furniture this next year so that I wouldn't have to haul that back home to Pasadena also.

Somehow during that last week of school I was able to get everything packed up and moved to a corner. So on Saturday, Cobb and I went up to Reed and began loading it all in my truck. I wasn't quite sure it would all fit, but we managed to use every spare spot in the truck and it actually all fit! Thanks also to Mr. Gilbert for teaching me how to tie down things in my truck!

Once it was all loaded up we said a prayer and then I headed straight home to Pasadena. I'm blessed with an amazing friend Andrew who forced me to store my stuff in his new house instead of paying for a storage unit for a full year.

When we walked out of my room for the last time Cobb made the comment, "You're not quite as sentimental as I thought you would be." I don't think that it has fully hit me yet what I'm doing. It still just feels like I packed up my classroom for summer and now its time to rest, go on trips, and then go back to school in August. So we'll see how sentimental I get in August when everyone goes back to school and I don't.

On a funny note...After we loaded up the truck Cobb and I went to throw several pieces of trash away including my brand new mini-fridge that only worked for the first month of school! The first trash can was overflowing so we decided to throw everything into the second dumpster. We got everything in and somehow managed to push the fridge in over the top when all of a sudden I read the sign on the dumpster "Recycling Only"...OOPS! I thought to myself, "Well at least they can't fire me!" I sure hope Mr. Earl didn't see that we did that!