How I Spent Day 1 of Winter Vacation...

I think teachers should get paid for at least 1 day of winter cleaning. I so want to begin my winter vacation (which includes Christmas shopping, cleaning my house, and planning and throwing a bachelorette party for my bff). But, my classroom is a disaster, and there is no way I am waiting till January to organize and take down Christmas.

My first order of business is to tackle my messy closet. I am fortunate enough to have some great therapists on my team, as well as two teaching assistants. But, that also means so many people are using my closet for storage. Without an organizational system, it didn't take long for my closet to end up like this...

I spent my first day of winter break cleaning and organizing everything! I found these great shoe box size storage boxes at the Dollar Tree (my fav)! I put a sticky note to label each box to make sorting stuff easier. 

Then, I emptied out the entire closet. My classroom was mess, but I needed everything out of the closet in order to get it in the shape I wanted it in. 

So far, this is what my closet looks like...

It still has a long ways to go and I still have a lot of stuff to put back into the closet, but I am so happy with everything so far! 

My next step is to label everything, so therapists and teaching assistants know where things belong. Wish me luck!