The Median Sib

I was surfing around some of my favorite teacher blogs and came upon this post writen by Graycie at Today’s Homework.  Here’s an exerpt:

My rule is that I don’t have to think about school (not in any practical way (messing around with my wiki and reading the thoughtful and intelligent words of all you ed bloggers counts as ‘fun’) until August 1st. Then I’ll figure out what day I have to go back, what day I’ll really go back to “check my room out” (read: start moving furniture and hanging wall stuff) . . .

That describes me almost perfectly this summer.  When I left school the end of May, I did not even think about school again in any substantial way until July 24th when I began six days of workshops - 4 days of writing and 2 days of coaching (academic - not athletic).  And yesterday I drove to my school and just looked around for about 15 minutes to decide how I would arrange the desks and bookshelves. 

After having a classroom all to myself for two years, I will have to share my room with the leveled book room and the teachers’ professional library.  Our school is growing and the two rooms that housed those items were needed. 

It will work out, though.  Before school was out, I drew a diagram of how everything should be.  Then during the summer when the work crews moved everything, they followed the diagram.  So my room is mostly set up - with just a little rearranging on my part.  The space for my reading groups was substantially reduced, but I’m still more fortunate than many of the other reading specialists in our school systems.  A couple of them have only a rolling cart or a closet to call home at their schools.  At least I have a room - and I don’t have to share it with another teacher - just with a lot of books.

So tomorrow (Sunday) is my last official day of summer vacation.  I will go to Sunday school and church, spend time with RT, maybe go to the farmers market to get some fresh tomatoes, and relax.  I will NOT think about school, though.  Monday will be here soon enough.

RT and I are discussing selling his house, buying an RV, trailer or motor home to put on the land to live in while we build the house.  Hmmmmm.  It’ll be spring before the new house is built.  As I write this, there is a crew over there digging the 4-foot deep trenches for the water and electricity lines.

If we follow that plan, we’d put most of our stuff in yet another storage unit (that would make THREE full storage units of our stuff), take just what we need to get us until spring, and then put the motor home/RV/trailer on the land and live there while the house is being built.  That would free up the money to pay for the house rather than having to take out a loan.  And the building site is a long way off the road - at the end of a 1/3 mile winding driveway that RT built.  So there wouldn’t be any danger of neighbors complaining - because no one could see it unless they drove to the end of the driveway.

I think it could be considered an adventure since there would be definite parameters of time.  i.e. You can handle most anything as long as you know there will be an end to it.  It would be nice to be over there because it is such a beautiful place.

So today I’m looking online at campers and RVs and motor homes and trailers - and thinking about being real-life trailer trash!  Yea!