This is where the chapter ends...a new one now begins

Today was a bittersweet day.  Today was the last day of school.  I've had seven last days, but today was different because it was my last last day at Shepard Hill.  I love that building and I'll miss it so much.  There are so many wonderful people there, staff and students alike.  I'm excited about my new adventure at Moosup, but Shepard Hill will always hold a very special place in my heart.  I still don't think it's sunk in that I won't be teaching there next year.  I'm sure it'll hit me soon enough.

I stayed busy most of the day, so it was hard to let the emotions get the best of me, but after the kids left and I was packing up, I started to get sad.  People had left me gifts and cards and I had lots of hugs today (even though we were all sweaty from the horrible heat today and no a/c in the building) and I realized this was really happening. I didn't think it would, but the mounds of boxes prove otherwise.  As I was leaving I had a nice heart to heart with Deb, the secretary, and I spoke with Bill, the principal, for a few minutes and then the tears started.  I'm going to miss that place so much.

I put my iPod on shuffle on the way home and Tyrone Wells' "Time of Our Lives" came on, which made me cry the whole way home.  It sums up perfectly how I'm feeling right now.

I'm going back tomorrow to finish everything up, and it'll probably be harder to leave than it was today because I know I won't be going back to teach and I won't see all of my friends come August.  Summer break is always nice, but I'm always anxious to come back and see the people I've missed over the summer.

I am excited about the future.  It's going to be good.

Time of Our Lives

This is where the chapter ends
A new one now begins
Time has come for letting go
The hardest part is when you know

All of these years
When we were here
Are ending
But I'll always remember

We have had the time of our lives
And now the page is turned
The stories we will write
We have had the time of our lives
And I will not forget the faces left behind
It's hard to walk away from the best of days
But if it has to end, I'm glad you have been my friend
In the time of our lives

Where the water meets the land
There is shifting in the sand
Like the tide that ebbs and flows
Memories will come and go

All of these years
When we were here
Are ending
But I'll always remember
We have had the time of our lives
And now the page is turned
The stories we will write
We have had the time of our lives
And I will not forget the faces left behind
It's hard to walk away from the best of days
But if it has to end, I'm glad you have been my friend
In the time of our lives

We say goodbye, we hold on tight
To these memories that never die
We say goodbye, we hold on tight
To these memories that never die

We have had the time of our lives
And now the page is turned
The stories we will write
We have had the time of our lives
And I will not forget the faces left behind
It's hard to walk away from the best of days
But if it has to end, I'm glad you have been my friend
In the time of our lives

I'm glad you have been my friend

In the time of our lives