Way too long!

Once again, way too long between posts. I guess that life has been busy. The big update is that Emily has been back in school for two months and it has been going pretty well. She mastered the rotating class schedule, the locker situation, and the coursework like an absolute champ. I really didn't need to help out at all. She jumped in as if it had always been the way that things work. 

On the friend front, she has been making some progress, but middle school is also full of drama. There seem to be lots of girls who are sort of hot and cold, fine one day and bossy or mean the next. Overall, though, I feel like there are at least three nice girls who she is slowly forming a bond with. It just takes time. Of course, most of the girls are doing cotillion, but she is not, so that doesn't help with the bonding.

At a pre-cotillion party

 

Other than school, Emily continues to make great progress with violin and continues to draw every chance she gets. She really loves perfecting her craft. She has also been doing some reading, now that one of the girls turned her on to a book series that she really loves. I love the fact that there are lots of books in the series and all of them seem pretty chunky. She doesn't spontaneously think of reading as an activity, but once she starts, she can't stop with these books. One night, I went in to check on her (thinking that she was asleep), but she was wide awake and reading at 11pm!

Just looking happy (after petting the cat)

 

Next week is Spring Break for both girls and we are heading to Keystone for some skiing. We haven't been since before the pandemic so both are looking forward to it. Sort of feels like bookends on the pandemic in that the last trip we did before we shut down for Covid was this exact trip. Of course, Emily has grown quite a bit since then, so we had to buy her all new gear. I am certain that some photos will appear on the blog (hopefully sooner than two months from now!). :)