I went to school bright and early this morning to help my friend move her classroom down to the basement. I know, basement? But, it's a good thing. It's a HUGE room with tons of storage. One of our other special education teachers is leaving, so her classroom was up for grabs. My friend, C., is taking that room, which leaves her room up for grabs. Since my friend's room is available, I'm going to be taking her room. So....I helped her move all of her classroom belongings down to the basement, and may I just say....she has a LOT of things! When we finished moving all of her things, we moved all of my classroom goods to her old room. Now, I have a much bigger room!! Yeah!!! I'm so excited to have a bigger, better room(just around the corner and down the hall from my old room)!!! The walls are freshly painted, well, at least they were a year ago, but, that's fresh enough for me. I love the color. It's between a sky blue and turquoise-ish, minty, color. This is one happy chica!!! :)

I arrived at school about 8:15 this morning, and left about 4:50. We took a short lunch break, but, other than that, we were packing, loading the dolly, the flat bed, riding the elevator up and down, and moving boxes, furniture, etc., all day long. I hope I can move in the morning!! My body is ready for bed. But, it feels good to be finished with moving absolutely EVERYTHING. Now, the next project will be to UNPACK all of those umpteen boxes this summer. Hopefully, while doing that, I can throw some of it away and de-clutter as I go. We didn't have time for that today; we just needed to get everything moved while we had each other's help. What a relief to get this much done to my classroom so early in the summer!! :)

We have to wait until after the custodians go in to clean and wax the beautiful wood floors before we can go back in and start unpacking our boxes. Our building is old and I love it. Others think we need a newer, modern building. Not me. I love old buildings, and this one especially reminds me of my old junior high and high school buildings back home. These older buildings have great bones, beautiful exterior character, and who couldn't love the wood floors and huge windows? Granted newer bathrooms, a more reliable heating and cooling system, and a bigger cafeteria would be nice, but, they're still performing their intended functions. Oh, and did I mention, there are several ghost stories floating around (no pun intended) about our wonderful building? I've never been one to believe in ghosts or the supernatural, nevertheless, I really wouldn't want to be in this building by myself, after dark. But, that describes any school I've ever been in after hours. They're always spooky to me (and I don't really spook easily) when it's late and you're alone in one. Oh, well, more on the ghost stories later.

Goodnight.