School's Out For Summer!

We are officially done with the 2012/2013 school year here at Doorframes Academy!  That's the name of our school in case you were wondering!  I am happy to say that we ended the year with everyone exactly where I wanted them for next year.  Which is really saying something considering we made a major move right as the school year was starting this year.  But by God's grace we made it through!  And now that I have made it through my first year of schooling three instead of two, I am able to look to the next year without trepidation like I did this last year.

We will be traveling a lot this summer, just like every summer, so I don't intend to even have to think about school again until the first part of August when we are home and I'm able to focus on that.  I've already purchased and received all of our curriculum that we need for next year so I literally don't have to do anything all summer--at least nothing that pertains to school!

So how do we celebrate the end of the school year at our house?  Well, normally we don't.  I'm not really one to make a big deal out of any celebrations/holidays.  But this year we are ending at the same time Hubby is ending his school year so I decided to at least pretend we were celebrating.  After all lessons were completed yesterday I played the song "What Time is it?" from Highschool Musical.  Everyone except #1 danced around the living room and we basically acted like a bunch of dorks.  I tried to get #1 to dance with us, but she refused to act silly with us.  Yeah, we're going to have to talk about that.  That was basically it yesterday.  It was shopping day so I had errands to run all afternoon long. 

But today, we went to the zoo here for the first time.  It's not huge, but I think it was worth the membership.  We ended up eating lunch in our car because they have NO outside tables.  And we figured if we have to eat in the car we're going to do it with the AC running.  And I'm not ashamed to admit we did!  It was hot and muggy!  And the great thing about having a membership is that when everyone is too hot and tired after lunch to walk around much more it is no big deal to wrap up the day playing for a bit on the playground and then heading home because you know you have a year to come back any time you want to!

Tigers Spooning!

OK, I know it's really heard to see--but that is the buzzard off of Jungle Book!  It is massively huge and way ugly!  Made my day to see it!

We made it home in enough time to start dinner.  My girls love this sweet and sour chicken dish that I make.  And I'll admit that I really like it too.  But it seriously takes me like two hours in the kitchen to get it all done, and that is with Hubby's help!  Not something I'm going to do very often.  So this was a celebratory dinner for all of us.  And we just happen to have leftovers for someone to fight over tomorrow!

And last, because it is still Friday night, we had family movie night.  We watched Life of Pi.  I could have sworn I read when it came out that it was a good kid's movie.  I think it was OK for #1 and #2, but there were some scary parts in it for #3 and #4.  Next time I'll actually check Plugged In before renting something I'm not sure about.  Oh well, hopefully no one wakes up with nightmares tonight!

So now all the children are in bed and sound asleep.  Tomorrow we tackle cleaning out the school room so that I don't have that hanging over my head all summer.  Hopefully I'll be able to put some of the curriculum I don't need anymore up for sale.  After that I can spend next week working on some projects I've been thinking about for months but haven't had the time or energy to work on them.  Then we have our VBS with our church here and then the girls and I are off on our travels the second week of June.  Life never really slows down for us, and yet we're not running ragged either.  God is so good, all the time!