For the past few weeks, I have been venturing into my classroom off and on to set up for the first day of school. For me, that meant taking out my library books from the shed, emptying my closets out to access the folders and other supplies I would need to distribute to the kids, putting up my new word wall made from Target One Spot stuff (if you follow me on Instagram you know that I bought out the notebook paper stuff from 4 different Targets ;)), and putting up the tissue paper borders for my boards (which still had the felt up from last year....because that stuff is expensive so it is up for a while ;)) I was feeling pretty good about the status of my room. The boards looked neat. It was empty and plain, but functional. Then I went on Pinterest and Facebook and Instagram. I kept seeing pictures of BEAUTIFUL classrooms. Fabulous libraries. Gorgeous quotes filling the walls. Comfortable nooks with amazing carpets, chairs you could sink into, and the perfect lamp in the corner. These pictures were of classrooms to die for. And I felt inadequate. I felt pressure to make my room as immaculate as what I was seeing in everyone else's room. I wanted to post pictures of what I was doing in my room, but no angle in the classroom could hide the boringness that is Room 6. Don't get me wrong. I LOVE those classrooms. I wish I had one of those classrooms. But honestly, it just isn't me. That is not my style, and quite frankly, I don't have the decorating chops to make my room gorgeous. Nevertheless, I felt like my own room, my own space, my own little blog here, was just not worthy to share with you. But then I began to think. If *I* am feeling this way, I know that *you* probably are too. If you are feeling less than blogworthy too, then you are probably the same kind of person that I am. A non-creative, non-decoratey person who lets student work later in the year be the star. Later in the year, you will probably have a room that looks like it threw up student work (which I LOVE). But for now, you probably have a nice, organized (ish) room with butcher paper and borders. Your tables are good to go. You may have a word wall up. Your library is ready for students to go wild in. You have new text books on the floor in boxes and composition books on top of the bookshelves ready to be handed out on the first day. Your room is functional.....and that is ok. Mine is too. Let me be the first to tell you. You are worthy. I am worthy. We are all worthy. Beautiful Pottery Barn classroom or functional set up, we all are there with one thing in mind, educating students. We all will do that over the course of this year and our room environments will grow to reflect that learning. It is ok if your room isn't picture perfect on Day 1. It doesn't have to be. And if it is, can you come and decorate for me please? ;) Want to see more pictures of my room in progress? Follow me on Snapchat where I will be documenting this year in all it's (non-picture worthy) glory :)