Summer Garden

 

The Last Day of School for the Lochheads

We had a weird ending to the year...the last day was supposed to be today, Friday, 6/17...but then we had a snow day and the schedule had no make-up days.  So technically, there was a half day of school, on Monday, 6/20...but the Lochheads didn't go!  We had our camping plans set way back in November, and Jeff's principal said they had things covered, so we treated 6/17 as our last day.

We got to get a picture with Mrs. Wunsch on Micah's last day.  He had SUCH a great year with her.  He said he'd remember all of the fun art projects...and the bag of SOCCER JERSEYS from her son, Gavin, that she sent him home with one day.

The 8th graders had an Awards Ceremony that day and I met Jeff to see Grace get her award for having great, amazing grades in her classes!  So proud of this girl.  She was relieved to be able to stand next to Hailey--it's worked out well, being a Lochhead and having a Magee friend.

 

And then the 8th grade field trip was going to Pattison's!  Jeff got to chaperone...

All of the school projects and supplies come home on the last day of school.  Our kids' piles of things SAT in our kitchen for a week, because as soon as we could, that night we took off for our week at Riley Creek!

We made it!  Smores that night made it feel like we'd been in summer for...at least six hours.

School Year = DONE

There is a bottle of Malbec at Twigs that gets consumed every June when Melissa and Kristen (and Cassie) and I send the kids home for last time!  Sweet relief with good friends, with the summer before us.   This year was especially monumental, as Melissa and I are looking at our jobs changing next year.  We tried to FaceTime Cassie while we were there, as her empty chair is a hole in our hearts!  The call worked for a few moments, but in the end we gave up and toasted to her health.  What a LOOOOOOOONG year to be a teacher...it was so good to remember all the hurdles we'd jumped in 2020-21.  Cheers to a relaxing summer ahead!

Oh, Those Summer Nights

Summer nights are meant to be spent at the Kendall Yards Farmers' Market!  Green, pizza on the sidewalk, strolls to the park, and Fannie's Ice Pops!  Life is so good...

The first days of summer...

The third child learns to fend for himself in the wild...seen here getting food for himself out of the cupboard...

The garden's growing!

"I need to brush my teeth, Mom.  See..." the rest said with mouth wide open, "...they're yellow."

And summer isn't summer until we get to hang out with our favorites in the middle of the week!  Bike ride/stroll through Whitworth--owning the place, as students are gone!

Somehow afterward, the biggers talk Auntie Heidi into a sleepover, of all things. It MUST be summer!

The only way I could get Micah home without tears--too little to sleep over!--was to offer special time with Mommy (and ice cream at Didiers).

The kids were worried about a cat that was roosting in our tree.  The cat and their worry entertained them for hours!