School's Out for Summer

School is out! I love having all of the kids home. It's definitely a little more crazy around here but we are all enjoying it.

One thing that I enjoy about the end of the school year is that the kids bring home all of the things that they have been working on all year. Garrison and Hailey had been writing in a journal everyday at school. It was so fun to read about what they thought about things and also to be reminded of some things that I had forgotten. Garrison had written a bunch of short stories in his free time. Although this is by far the shortest and most simple story, it is my favorite.

It says: Nolan my grandpa. He is funny. He says where is Garrison? and I'm right there! He always says Holy Macro! He asks me what website I'm on and he says the opposite.

I laughed and laughed when I read this. He has my dad down to a tee! I knew exactly what Garrison was talking about. It reminded me so much of my childhood.

I called my dad to tell him about this and within a minute of talking to him (and before I told him about this) he said "Holy Mackerel!" I busted out laughing and told my dad what Garrison had written.

Another thing that I enjoy during the summer is "learning time". We have this all year around but at the beginning of the summer we have a family council where the kids make a list of things that they want to learn before the next school year. All of the kids get to participate and they even added some on Macy's behalf. They can put just about anything on the list. It can be something like learning to tie a shoe, ride a bike or play the piano to something like learning multiplication and division.

We also talk about things that we want to do and see while the kids are out of school. Our summer is getting filled up pretty fast!

We knew that things were getting out of hand when Hailey insisted that she learn how to golf this summer (sorry sweetheart, Mommy has never been golfing before and it's kind of an expensive hobby for a 6 year old), and that we all go on a cruise (isn't there enough to do in the Chicago area? After all, we do have a long list of things we want to do) and that Garrison learn how to drive. Um, sorry no. I have to draw my line somewhere.