Open House!

If you are not a teacher I am convinced that you cannot come close to understanding what it means to be the day before Open House!

Here's an overview:

You wake up wondering what you did with those stories the students wrote that you so carefully saved last September for Open House in April!

You begin stressing over whether you have enough stuff hanging from the ceiling for the parents to bump their heads on!

You start questioning whether two jumbo Costco-sized anti-bacterial wipes could possibly clean a room that 17 Kindergartners have been in for 7 months!

You re-analyze you lesson plans for the day - maybe this is the day to break out a new DVD!

You are concerned that there is not enough tape and sticky tabs in the world to affix all the projects your class has done to the already tape marked walls and doors!


Lastly, how in the world will you ever be ready for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and other interested visitors to come through your immaculately clean, beautifully decorated classroom displaying the wonderful accomplishments of 17 great Kindergartners by 6:30 tomorrow night?

Well, I'm not sure how it happens, but for the past twenty years I've been doing this and each year on Open House Night the room is ready, the parents ooh and ahh, and I actually run home between the end of school and the beginning of Open House to shower, shampoo, and shine!

So it is that this may well be the last Open House I ever do, but I look forward to going to my own children's Open House Night next year, where I will truly appreciate all the teacher did to make that classroom perfect!