Class motto? Feels right. 🖤💙

It’s almost time. 💙🖤🤍 I need to know about your bulletin board feelings. Love or hate doing them? Tell me in the comments! 👇🏻👇🏻 I’ve always loved them. I have far fewer in my new room but it was fun to set up a few fresh boards 🌟

Summer, I never needed you more than I did this year. Year 16, I’m ready. But today, I’m hanging on to the few more quiet and slow moments I have left.

Weird late start date this year = one last feels-like-summer moment away with mom and dad before the back to school crazy begins. There is no where that reminds me how CREATIVE our Creator is quite like the beach. {Fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always. Philippians 4:8b TPT}

Who even am I working at a coffee shop? It’s literally been years since I’ve done this. Years. Trying so hard to crawl out of this hole y’all. Trying so. stinking. hard. 💻🧋

Fun fact - but if you’ve been around a minute you already know - my MOST favorite back to school to do is (purchasing and) setting up my new planner/desk calendar for the year! I use my district’s calendar and mark down everything I can in both places. It sets me up for some organizational success from the get go anddd when your teammate forgets if we “have that meeting today”, you’ll know! I love love love love love all of the digital tools I’ve learned in the last couple of years but I’ll always be a paper planner girl 🥰. Tell me or drop an emoji in the comments - are you team digital📱or paper📒planner!?

Not 100% convinced but the Friday night sky was too full of messages to not share. 🌈

Today finally wrapped up the longest and most challenging school year of my 15 year career. Top picture was day 1 ish of setting up this new (to me) classroom in 2018. Bottom picture was today. At 99 years old - yes 99 - room 33 is all in boxes/my basement yet again. Next year brings a brand new elementary school to my story. (same district - same grade - same school - just moving to the sparkling new building) Top pic I was full of hope - hope for a new beginning and fresh start. Bottom pic - I am honestly lower than low and in a very heavy and dark place. Life continues to swing its punches and hope seems unattainable. I’m tired yet terrified of the stillness of summer. #anxietyanddepression I’m ready for a break but anxious about what’s next. It’s heavy. It’s hard. But I’m trying to believe that there has to be some sort of light coming. Thank you for still being here and for shining YOUR light on me when I can’t find my own. 💛

💙 Now that they’re experts!? It’s time for them to advise the incoming class of shenanigans! I always LOVE seeing the advice they give at the end of the year! 💙Link in my profile bit.ly/ShenanigansEOYAdvice

Years ago, my friend @miss5th posted the most precious ideas for a VIP KID countdown as a way to celebrate one kid a day for the final weeks of the school year. I’ve twisted and tweaked a few things to make it suit our classroom (and a pandemic) over the last few years, and I am SO excited to celebrate this super sweet class of mine starting on Friday! But today - it’s mission anticipation 😂💙 if you’d like to hear more about what I do for ours, let me know in the comments! 💙

About once every 5-6 months, I feel like myself - I recognize the girl I see in the mirror. Praise Jesus that that day is today. I’m too old to believe I’m the only one who experiences this, so this post is 579x more for you than it is for me 💙 #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthawarenessmonth

LAST CALL! Cart closes tonight ⭐️⭐️⭐️ link in profile! bit.ly/EOYaff