Breeeeathe, juuuust breeeeathe.

Ok, so at this point in the summer, my vision was to have a classroom with colorful bulletin boards in place, desks arranged with ample walking room in between, a super organized desk with pictures and alma mater memorabilia, and my beautiful library with the 300+ books I've accumulated, all organized in neat bins with colorful pillows and a cozy reading spot for my little friends.  Sounds wonderful, right?

Want to know what it actually looks like?  Piles and piles of books, Dollar Tree baskets, and an assortment of random classroom items scattered about the guest bedroom and living room in our little apartment.  Pillows, bookshelves (still in the boxes, mind you), pocket charts, lamps, and a {super cute but still rolled up} IKEA rug, all shoved into a little corner in my fellow 3rd grade teacher's room at school.  You could say that things have not exactly gone according to plan.  Why, you ask? Well turns out, the room I took pictures of.  The room I had sat in and rearranged and planned out where everything was going to go.  Yeah, it's not my room anymore.  They moved me.  Now, all of the rooms in the school are pretty much the same, so no big deal, right? Just put everything in the same place and start getting your stuff in there! Yes, that would be great, except that at this point, I don't have a room.  That's right.  I meet my kiddos and their parents in less than 2 weeks, and I have not been assigned a new room.  Oh, and it gets better.  My amazing mom came to my rescue to help me load and haul everything to school and help me set everything up, only to find out once we got to the school that we wouldn't be able to do anything because I didn't have a room to do it in.  So now, I am patiently waiting for my room assignment and key while all my crap valuable teaching and learning materials are shoved into the corner of my wonderful coworker's room, all the while seeing pictures of my fellow teaching friends posting pictures of their adorable classrooms already set up and already looking adorable.  Le sigh.

Ok, complain session over.  I completely understand that there are always unforeseeable changes over the summer.  And some teachers don't even know what or even where they're teaching at this point.  So I am still counting my blessings that I even have a job and that it's at a wonderful school.  And that I get to meet my little ones in just a very short time! Plus, my mom  is coming back to help me once I finally do get into my room.  Seriously, I told her a million times that she didn't have to come because I felt terrible that she had already come once and we didn't even get to do anything in the room. But being the wonderful mom she is, she insisted.  Have I mentioned how amazing my mom is? 'Cause she is.

So anyway, that's why I have yet to post ANY classroom pics.  I've just been sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting for word.  HA! Yeah right.  I have been making posters, organizing my library {good gracious, that's an exhausting job}, writing my classroom procedure book, etc. etc. and lots more etceteras.

Hoping to hear something by tomorrow -- just cross your fingers that I get to see my classroom before my kids do ;)