Last Day of School

The year ended on May 13th without much fanfare, although we did get Chinese at our favorite restaurant, Suki, on the last day of school. We finished our states, and are looking forward to starting on the presidents next year. We finished our math, grammar and science books, and even though we're changing a lot of our core for next year, I was happy overall with our curriculum choices this year, especially since it was all so new to us.

We finished another book from our Best Children's Book series, Tuck Everlasting, on the last day. We all agreed it was our favorite from the year, although Connie did ask through her tears at the end, why the books that are considered to be so good all have to be so sad.


The girls convinced me to let them "clean" their desks with shaving cream, insisting it was something they always did on the last day of real school. They had so much fun drawing and writing in the mess that I was glad we borrowed this tradition from school.

I can't believe we've finished our first year. If someone had told me I'd be this happy doing this I would have started years ago. I do think we had to travel a certain path to get here, though, and I wouldn't have wished any of that away (although possibly sped some of it up.)

We're looking forward to a little summer break to relax and play, and then plan to start back with 2-3 days a week in July. We'll have a 7th, 5th and 2nd grader, as well as a kindergartener now, so we have lots of new stuff to organize and plan.