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Last Week of School

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By Sarah



After missing three days of school due to illness Natalie was happy to have a few more days with her teacher and classmates.  On Monday she came home from school saying she really wanted to carpool with A after missing softball the week before.  How could I say no?


On Tuesday I was lucky enough to have the day off work so I could attend field day.  So much fun to see them laugh. If you don't fall down during the three legged race, is it really a three legged race?  Such a great class of kids with their wonderful teacher.



Since our middle school has a habit of celebrating their 8th graders on Wednesday it is expected your 8th grader doesn't show up to school on Thursday.  They would literally be doing nothing.  So, Danny got to be done with school a full day earlier than all his sisters.  So my last day working with my 8th graders (and my little buddy that's moving out of state) was my only son's last day at the middle school as well.  I must admit that there were a whole lot of emotions inside me that day.  Mostly gratitude and (sad) goodbyes.  Danny wasn't sure if he wanted to go to the 8th grade celebration but I'm glad that he did. And glad W's mom there to capture this great photo! Seems like they had a great time and some of his friends walked home with him and spent time hanging out at our house afterwards.  It really started to feel like summer after that.



Thursday meant Kate's last day of 9th grade.  She had purchased gifts for some of her teachers and passed them out along with taking her algebra final.  She got to leave at 11am and so was the first one done with school (but also had the earliest arrival time).



Michelle's last day of 7th grade sounded pretty fun with stories of playing things like mafia and other games along with the school wide picnic.  They also built bridges in science class to see with group's bridge could hold up the most sand without breaking.  Sounds like there were some pretty impressive poundage numbers there.


Natalie is still at a school where I am allowed to come party on the last day with her, for which I am thrilled.  The school wide picnic is always a crazy good time that is hard to leave.  Lucky for her she got to go to a last day of school party with a friend and looks like she had a blast tagging along!  And I think my love language is letting me take your picture/sending me photos of my kids. lol




I also wanted to mention the wonderful news that my coworker had her baby the last week of school.  She is such a cutie (I've seen lots of pictures) and I am so happy for J.  I hope I get to meet this little one in person soon.  J was a wonderful coworker and of course I am thrilled she gets to be a stay at home mom like she wants but we all miss her so much at the school.  We will also miss the speech language pathologist, who is moving away and both SR & TS as they move on to different careers.  Honestly I wanted to cry as we all at lunch together on Friday.  Apparently I get really attached to people and I am scared of trying to do my job without them.  I will take that (and the severe migraine I got) as supreme compliments to the greatness of the people I have gotten to work with the past two school years.


My kids all had a great time not going to school on Friday and Saturday.  Kate went out with friends to do things such as paddle boarding, Danny hung out with his bestie traveling to friends houses and trying out public transportation, Michelle got to rent a cello for the summer and spend some of her Barnes & Noble gift card after eating at her favorite pizza place and Natalie ran around the neighborhood so much with friends we sometimes wondered where she was.  All in all everyone seems ready for summer!
 

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