Time has flown by and it is already Spring Break next week! Emily still loves her new school. She is so much happier and has so much more energy, but she is still looking forward to the break. We don't have any big plans. The weather is going to be lovely, so hopefully she'll get outside a bit. She has an anime show she wants to binge, and has talked about getting together with some friends, but nothing is firm yet.
As I mentioned in my last post, there was a school dance just before Valentine's Day. The guy she got set up with, Preston, is still her boyfriend and she says he is really nice. However, I haven't met him yet.
As you can imagine, she was very excited about the dance.
And, as luck would have it, Abbie was home for a long weekend, so the sisters had some bonding time while Abbie helped Emily get ready.
Emily looked great, but the dance itself turned out to be pretty lame. Go figure, it's middle school. There was music and dancing in the gym and games, etc. in the cafeteria. However, everything needs to be G-rated, so the gym was lit up bright as day, there was no slow dancing allowed, and the music was way too loud. Definitely not what she had hoped for.
Emily is starting to think about what she wants to do with her summer, but we need to formalize the plan or the time will just slip by. I would like her to take a typing course, she has a driver's ed course she needs to take, and I expect she will spend some time in Minnesota. However, we need to arrange some out-of-the-house day-to-day activities. She has signed up to be a volunteer in the community, so that is one option, but we'll have to see what else we can come up with.
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