Last Day of School!

Today was Emily's last official day of school. The year definitely ended with a whimper, rather than a bang. They had a very light workload this week and today was their last Zoom meeting, which was the end-of-year awards event. As it turns out, the awards were lame (newsflash - they are all advancing to the next grade and that actually counts as an award) and our WiFi failed partway through. Emily was pretty upset. I think that she had been looking forward to this as a special event and it was anything but special.

School Photo 2019-2020

What is special (to me anyway) is that this is the first year that the school has done individual school photos for the kids. We didn't have anything last year, but this year they started the (long overdue) tradition. It is actually interesting how they did it - rather than have a professional photographer come to the school, they made it an art project for the upper-level students. Although this doesn't result in the greatest finished product, I do appreciate the learning value, etc.

The awards event may not have included any newsflashes, but we do have one from the homefront. After seven years of commitment to becoming a baker (yes, that's right, this has been her goal since she was two), Emily has decided on a career change. She now has an interest in drawing and animation. She has been working really hard on her drawing lately and she is very serious about it. She'll say, "Today I need to work on drawing better jawlines." or "Today I need to work on drawing people from the side." She is desperate for one-on-one art lessons, so we will see what we can do.

These are a couple of her recent drawings. The first is a fairy princess and the second is a group of friends who fight monsters together. There is an entire backstory here. Saidy Dell (in the middle) is the shy one, and Lora Roks (on the right) is the more adventurous one (notice the ear and eyebrow piercings). The bird, Dead-beak, belongs to Lora, FYI. What Saidy doesn't know is that Lora and Jack Wolf are secretly dating. They don't want to tell Saidy because they don't want it to break up the group. LOL. As you can imagine, the story goes on, but this is just a taste.

Other than her drawing, Emily has been keeping herself busy with swimming, FaceTime calls, all sorts of projects in her room, and the occasional blanket fort in the living room! :)

Blanket Fort - notice that all of her animals were invited!

Looking ahead to the summer, we are not traveling and the kids are not signed up for summer camps, at least not outside the house. Rather, we have commissioned Abbie to design and run morning camps for Emily. The first camp, which will start in the 2nd week of June is called Basics of Baking and will involve all sorts of messes in my kitchen! I'll keep you posted on the rest.