End of School

I was SOOOOO glad when the School district moved up the end of school by a few weeks. All of us were so ready for it to be over. They all had one last zoom meeting, even Rylee, and it was happy and sad at the same time. Rylee LOVED her preschool program and it is such a bummer she didn't get to graduate and show what she has learned this year. But Oh well. Nothing we can do. 

 This was Mollie's awards meeting where they gave all the awards! Mollie had several awesome awards including high honor roll. I watched and it just made me emotional. So many weird feelings at this time!

 Each kid was assigned a day that they could go drive through the school to pick up their things. Ms Moore promised ice cream for good behavior while she was out having a foot surgery and never got to come back to school! But she made good on that promise and had ice cream for the kids on their last day.

 Prof Reis was sick and so she stayed away just in case but we got to see Mrs Erickson and say goodbye.

 Carter got to see both of his teachers. We did smores kits and chips and salsa for teacher gifts this year and an amazon gift card.

And when it was finally all over, we jammed out to Schools out for Summer in the kitchen. It wasn't as exciting as it typically is, but still it felt good knowing we wouldn't be tied to screens anymore. And again, the kids have handled things like champs, but then we find letters like this that remind us that our kids are struggling just as much as we are. It breaks my heart that their "normal" will probably never be heard of again. Sports will forever be changed, so will school and extra curricular activities. And shopping. It may never be as it once was. I wish I could snap my fingers and make things change. But sadly, we get to learn a NEW NORMAL. I know we can do it. It'll just be different. Heaven help us!