Thinking about back to School = getting stressed

 It is that time of year---summer is about over (didn't it just start). I looked at the calendar today and two weeks from today I have to report back to school--first day with kids is 2 1/2 weeks away. Am I having panic attacks?  Yeah, sometimes. I have decided that the couple weeks before school starts are the absolute worst weeks of school. I had to go to a meeting on Monday that ended up taking up my whole day and I have been able to spend quite a bit of time in my room. Somewhere along the way I got this really "great" idea to change a lot of the decor in my room---to kind of make everything match better. That "great" idea has been quite a bit of work. I've gotten quite a few things done---but I won't show them until it is all together. In order to make one of these things work, I've got to take out wooden cabinet from my room--so that is what I spent 3-4 hours yesterday, rearranging, so I would have somewhere to put all the "junk" that was inside. I honestly don't know where all this stuff come from. I wish I had taken a picture. I'm not real happy with where it all went, so I'm sure I'll be rearranging still. I'm hoping to get the room in order so I can have some time off before officially starting. And, I'm really hoping that we get a teacher hired. One of the 5th grade teachers transferred to West about 3-4 weeks ago--and we don't have a replacement yet. I made this little pennant banner yesterday. These are kind of the colors I'm going with in my room. And yes---I actually made this MYSELF. I even sewed every single little pennant onto the ribbon on my own!!!!

My new toy

Okay--this is my newest little "toy," and I'm pretty sure I would be labeled as a total dork because of how happy this little thing has made me. Here it is...

It basically makes a can of spray paint into a little paint gun. Greatest Invention. Ever.

I have been having a lot of fun with it the last day. It keeps a steady spray of paint, my fingers don't have paint all over them, and my finger isn't cramping from holding the nozzle down. I'm in the processes of changing my classroom theme---so I've  been spraying lots for that.

 This is a little suicase that had a Mary Englebreit drawing and saying on it. It was pink (probably why I bought it in the first place.) Well, there isn't going to be much pink in my new decor, so I sprayed it turquoise (love this color). I use it to give a little decoration--and I store class pictures, cards kids have written me, stuff I want to keep in it.

Washington D.C.

 It's been a year about this week or next, that very last minute I had the chance to go on my dream trip to Washington D.C. with Merlynn, Steve, & Megan. It is somewhere I had always wanted to go. To make it even better we were able to go to Philadelphia. We saw so many historical places and learned so many new things. I loved every minute of it. We took a lot of pictures. I finally got around to making up a scrapbook---I knew it would take quite a bit of time--so I had to wait until summer. Well, for about four days I have worked on this thing. It is done. And I am glad for that. It is fourty pages long, an 8x8 book. It was very hard to narrow down the pictures, but it's written down now. I do wish I had written things down during the trip or right after we got back so I could remember more.

 On the pages about the monuments, I types up a 4x6 card that tells about the monument and then if there was something else I remembered from it. I had to get creative with the journaling because I needed lots of space for pictures.

Now...for Merlynn's book. Hopefully I'll have time to get it done before school starts :)