Blogging for School: August 2013

This is a perfect week for me to discuss support. This week I could not have gotten everything accomplished that I did, if it was not for my grandma. My grandma decided to come up and visit and hang out for the week, because my family went on vacation, and it was perfect for us to have some bonding time. When she came up I had just found out that for this upcoming school year I had been relocated to a new school on the other side of town. So we took a trip south and went to go see my new classroom. The minute we stepped inside we got to work. There were supplies not from my old classroom, but from another one. So we started "cleaning house". We started rearranging furniture, clearing out the old stuff from previous teachers and making a plan of how we could decorate. That night we came home ate dinner, and started crafting. We put her cricut machine to work for house! The next morning we went to JoAnn fabrics to get material we had hunted down the night before for the bulletin board. We finally make it back to my classroom with all my cleaning supplies, fabric for a bulletin board, our cricut projects and butcher block paper for another bulletin board. We get to my classroom, and it has been flooded. Everything that we had done the day before was pushed back to the back half of the room. Apparently the sink had been left running in another room and had overflowed into my classroom. Did that stop us? No! We got to work on those bulletin boards, and was there for about 6 hours doing what we could with what room we had. Thursday we went back with the hopes that the water had been sucked out of the carpet and that we could start moving things again. We were wrong. So in the area that we did have, we were able to set up the Library area, and I was able to unpack about 15 boxes and throw away a dumpster full of crud that was left behind by other teachers. We were there for another 5 hours that day. When we came home we did not rest, we had more crafting to do.
My grandma did not have to stay and help me, but she wanted to. I would not have been able to get all these things done without her, and her crafting supplies. I am so grateful to my grandma for spending this time with me, and helping me succeed in a position I was nervous about. Moving to a new school on a new side of town was shocking to me. I was looking forward to seeing some of my returning students this year, but with my grandmas help I feel better about my situation. I have been able to make my room my own, and am excited for school to start.
I do not want to think of the day where my grandma will not be here anymore. She has always been someone that I can talk to about our crazy family and she understands, and does not judge me for the things I think. She is an amazing women, and I treasure every minute I get to spend with her!