This past week was busy
She finished 8th grade and is on to H.S. He’s done with 6th and on to Jr. High
I suppose I think of it as more of a milestone rather than an accomplishment though. I’m super proud of her as always, him too, but making it through 8th grade is sort of a given. Graduating H.S. is going to happen too, eventually, but graduating H.S. with straight A’s or getting into the school of their choice, those are accomplishments. I’m certainly not trying to downplay this week because these are important events 🙂
He’s had a really good few days of baseball too. I might be more excited about that than the end of school. He caught the game ending line drive Wednesday and then today caught another pop fly in the 6th for the first out and then tossed a grounder to 1st to end the game. IMO he should always be in the infield, but I’m not the coach 😐 Plus he’s getting hits too!
Wednesday I organized an EOY class party where we had a water balloon fight, made tie dye t-shirts (where he and I ironed on PJHS and the kids names over the weekend) and played some kickball. Thursday they had their EOY 6th grade breakfast, although modified, where they watched the 30+ minute slideshow I created. In the afternoon he and his whole 6th grade class celebrated with a party at the park where we went through maybe 1500 water balloons in mere minutes. And then Thursday night she graduated 🙂 It was a short but a very memorable event.
After a covid-modified year it was nice to end things with days like these.
Thursday night she had a sleepover with friends. They decided to go for a late night walk and lets just say they experienced a start to the summer they never imagined. Let’s just hope they learned a little lesson because of it.
We received lots of messages for her graduation but one message in particular sort of irks me, I suppose that’s the right word. “You have exceeded everyone’s expectations”. The rest of the message is nice and complementary, but this part raises my eyebrows. Who is “everyone” and what sort of expectations are they referring to? It sort of comes off rude, to me anyways. I’m not trying to lesson the other things that were said but I probably could have gone without that sentence. Maybe that’s another reason why texting anything where emotion can’t be easily expressed should simply not be sent.
Well I digress …
It’s hardly rained in the past few months. Temps are in the 80’s / 90’s to start June. Our schedule is super busy in the weeks to come. I’m still trying to figure out my next regular employment opportunity (ever since I dropped my primary client recently for numerous things I choose not to mention here). When do we get to go to the lake. When will my boat finder website become a real thing? What are all the things we’ll do this summer?
Well, it’s midnight so maybe I’ll try to go to bed?