"School's Out for Summer!"...So Let's Start It Off with a Garage Sale for Our Adoption!

I can't believe it. Another year has come and gone. Today we had our awards and all students were gone at the end (12:30 pm!). Made for a nice rest of the day to get my classroom cleaned and packed up for the summer. Just a little bit left to do. It was a good year, and I lived and learned what not to do for next year, as well as, what I should do. We are all human, we all make mistakes...I just wish that certain people realized that. Oh, well. I will miss the kids...all individually. They each have their characteristics that I love. I will certainly remember them. Especially one student, A.M., who wrote me a really sweet good-bye letter...7 pages long! It will be one that I will treasure forever and it reminds me why I am in this job in the first place. I will probably keep it next to my bedside so that on days when everything seems so frustrating, I can take it out and read it before going to bed, and know that I did make a difference in a child's life. :)

On another note, Casey and I are having a multi-family garage sale this weekend to help raise money for our adoption! My great aunt who passed away a year ago this June, lived to the ripe old age of 100! There were lots of items that still did not get claimed, so my mom's oldest brother and my grandmother (my aunt's youngest and only remaining sibling) decided to allow Casey and me to try and sell the rest with all proceeds going to our adoption. My aunt even suggested that we ask for other donations from family members to add to the sale and see what happens. We went up there Memorial Day to get everything organized, and realized we needed to ask them to stop sending things! There is so much stuff that it's quite overwhelming. However, the items are from the past 100 years, so hopefully everyone that comes to the garage sale will find something they desire.

Hopefully I will be able to blog more now that the summer is here. Hopefully that will help me get into more of a blogging routine so that everyone can know our progress!