School's Out, Summer's Here!

It's funny that the girls' last day of school was also the first official day of summer.

I can't believe that the school year is really over! It seems like just yesterday that I had to watch them ride away from me after they both insisted on riding their buses on the very first day. They were both so calm, and I was a nervous wreck.

Looking back, I'm so proud of them. They left a small private school where everybody knew them, and they knew everybody, to start over where everything and everybody was new. (They had never been on a school bus, never walked through a lunch line, never made their way through big, sprawling buildings, never had an unfamiliar teacher greet them on the first day.) But they jumped right in and adapted immediately.

Now, here we are with the whole year behind us.

Katherine is reading chapter books and writing stories. She has her "autograph book" filled with names and phone numbers of about 20 of her "best" friends. She has had a great teacher who made learning fun, and she is really excited about 2nd grade.

Dylan's cursive writing is better than mine. She knows all of her multiplication facts and has made lots of friends throughout the school and on the bus. She has had the sweetest 3rd grade teacher we could have hoped for, and she is looking forward to 4th grade, where she'll learn to play the clarinet and sing in the chorus.

I'm glad to have them home, and I'm going to try to enjoy every minute with them. I know it won't be long before we're running around stocking up on school supplies again!