Holidays are nice..

For some reason, I didn’t notice that I wasn’t taking much vacation time during the year, so I’m catching up now.  Our vacation year runs from the end of June one year to the end of June the next year.    So I have to use what I have before the end of June, or I lose whatever I have left.

So, this week, I’m off Monday – Thursday, and next week, I’m off Wednesday – Friday.    My parents are coming from Italy to the US for a week (whirlwind tour starting in Dallas), so that will be next week’s fun.

This coming week is Brit’s final day and 1/2 at elementary school.  They have 1/2 day Wednesday, then that’s it.   It will be sad to not be around all of the people who I’ve gotten to know and who’ve supported her over the last 6 years.   The secretary is always so cheerful.   The teachers are awesome and the afterschool program is just as great.   The afterschool program director and his assistants have been there since Brit was 4 and starting kindergarten, and have really been exceptional at what they do.     Sometimes, I would walk in to pick Brit up and there was happy shouting coming from 100 kids simultaneously as they did their activities.   I would look at the directors like, “Oh my gosh.. how do you do this?”   But they did it well, and I’m grateful.

Even though we’ve been through a lot of changes over the last several years, I’m happy that we’ve been able to keep Brit in the same school.   The continuity has been good for her.    Next year, she’ll be going to a school further away, just to be with her same friends.   In junior high, they blend 5 elementary schools together, so she’ll have lots of new people to meet, too.

And then Brit’s whirlwind summer schedule starts.   We have her going to summer school, band camp and some 3 week activity at the theater to do with puppetry.

Tomorrow..  Adventureland!    I hope it’s warm and sunny.   A few weeks ago when the girl scouts went, it was raining most of the time, until they shut the park, and then the sun came out.  🙂  (sod’s law)