End of School

The end of school was very different this year. Since Hannah and Joey were 100% homeschooled, about six weeks before school ended, I told them that they could work really hard to get ahead and finish school early this year if they wanted to. Guess which one was all about that? It didn't surprise us at all that Hannah spent the next three weeks working extra hard and finished school three weeks early. Joey, on the other hand, decided to go mostly at the regular pace, and he just finished a few days early. Ellie, having school in person two days a week, wasn't able to completely finish early, but we worked hard to get her at-home assignments done a couple of weeks early. The girls' mornings looked like this starting towards the end of May.

They played a LOT of games.

Our pool was getting resurfaced, so we weren't able to have our annual "last day of school" pool party. It worked out though because Ellie's friend's mom ended up planning a big Classical Academy party at Sky Zone after their last day of in-person school. We had the whole place to ourselves, and it was so fun.

 As you can see, the kids really enjoyed doing the big rock wall.

For Joey's 8th grade promotion, the school decided to do a "drive through" promotion in cars. Joey wasn't interested in that, so we just did our own celebration and went out to dinner.

He picked BJ's, and then we went home for ice cream and a movie night.

When Andy's dad was in 8th grade, his Gram gave him a really nice Cross pen with his name engraved on it. He still uses it to this day. He wanted to get Joey the same gift, so now Joey owns a beautiful pen and mechanical pencil with his name on them. Joey really loved the thoughtful gift.