The Final Countdown

While catching up on my blog reading this morning while my kids run absolutely wild, just waiting for 9am when we go outside for "Panther Olympics" (Fun Fridays in May sounded like a good idea...), I couldn't help but notice that several of my teacher friends are counting the days down for school to be out. I totally feel it too! The days seem to drag on and 70 minutes to teach has never seemed so long. After today, we will have 5 more days left of school. I will have 5 more days of teaching here at Drake. 5 more days of daily hallway conversation with the girls I love to share life with. Only 5 more! When I think about it this way, 5 more days seems way to short. I have been complaining to John this week that I am totally stressed out for being solely responsible for packing up our house AND my classroom at the same time. It is very overwhelming when you have been packing for 2 hours and it doesn't appear that you have made any progress-to the contrary, everything is even more of a mess than when I first started. Similarly, it is such a strange feeling to pack up my classroom, knowing that I am not packing to move to another classroom at Drake but my stuff will be moving a lot farther. Right now, my car is so packed full of random tidbits of our life that we have made in 2.5 short years that I can't see the ceiling of my SUV and not even a little out the back. I am traveling to Birmingham once school is out to try to begin settling into our house. We have been talking about this since January and knew it was coming, but that doesn't make it any easier!