The Monday morning after our party, the alarm clock rang at 5:30 AM! Yikes!!! There aren't too many reasons we would purposely get up at such an hour, but spending a day in my niece's classroom before her school year ended was one of the few. What a great experience! Jennifer is a natural born teacher, and I am sooo proud of her. She used to come and work in my classroom all the time during her summer vacations and I am not sure how I would have survived many a first day of school without her. Now, she has a class of her own and I got to be the helper! It was pajama day and make Father's day gifts and cards day - what fun and what a great way for me to get back into teacher mode. Sadly I missed Mrs. Miller's first year teaching, but I am so glad I got a chance to meet her second class. She has been teaching first grade, and will be in Kindergarten next year - lucky girl!

I still don't know what grade or school I will be at next year. The "dreams" have already begun that it is the first day of school and I have no clue what I am teaching and haven't even put up bulletin boards yet. Ugh! I am hoping my school year starts before Jenn's so maybe I can talk her into coming down! :)

My old school, North Broadway, had its end of the year staff party on Friday and it was so great to see my old friends. A school staff really does become like family and it is very sad I will no longer officially be a "Bronco." I knew this was one of the risks I was taking when we left, but it is still very hard. I hope I find out where I'll be going soon - maybe it will help.

We stopped by the storage room we had rented and had a bit of a hard time getting in. Glen had to crawl up under the door and push several boxes of my classroom stuff away from the door - apparently there were some earthquakes while we were gone! Anyhow, we got the door opened and just started laughing. The whole front half of the room is full of my "teacher stuff" so there was no way we could even see what we left behind of our personal stuff. How did we deal with this dilemma? The only rational way... we slid the door back down and walked away! We're still on island time!