80 Days!!!

Where do Phineas and Ferb go to school?  104 days is a really long summer break!!!

Anyway, here's the 'last day of school' photos...I usually just do 'first day of school' ones but decided to make my kids finish the year with the same embarrassing shots as the first.  Yes, I too noticed that some people didn't change their outfit all year long.  See?

 Aaron with his "spikey hair".  He is soooooo ready to be in Kindergarten!

Katherine walked in the door and declared "No more elementary school, YES!!!" so I guess she's ready to move on up...

What can I say about this cool dude...he's awesome and ready for a very fun summer...bring it on!



So ready to just sleep in!  I'm not going to lie, I'm looking forward to having this one around so I can go to the grocery store alone...of course with this one around I'll most likely be going to the grocery store far more often...

 

This one is just happy to have her friends home...she was super.excited.to.see.them.after.school!

Day one (I guess tomorrow is really day one...does that make today day half?) has been a success.  We enjoyed a delicious 'after a half day' lunch of pizza while watching "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" (1971 version).  Dan claims to have watched that on the last day of school every year so we have adopted the tradition...

 

We'll have to let you know how days 1-80 go...

 

 

 



I'm 'fine' with it...

I have to admit, one of the perks of having many, many children is having many, many library cards at your disposal. 

My plan: Attend the library at regularly scheduled intervals.  This schedule would permit me to expose my family to a wide variety of highly sophisticated reading material thus expanding their minds without breaking my budget.  My reality:  Go to the library when it rains and we can't do anything else and/or I need to get the book club book.  Allow my children to check out multiple books that they will scatter throughout the house and way too many movies which do not enhance them in any way and I will forget to return within the one week time limit thus accruing $1.00/day fines.  Per movie.

I have successfully 'maxed out' my card, Dan's card, and 3 of my 5 children's cards.  I have library cards for my entire family at 3 different libraries.  I no longer live within the residency boundaries for two of the libraries but sometimes I go anyway.  Thanks to the option of sending all communication via email they may never know I've moved.  Twice.  I try to keep at least one card available for use at each library but sometimes I fail.  I know the amount at which a card is placed on restriction and will pay down my fines to $0.05 below said amount just to keep a card open.  I continually put the suggestion of having 'fine forgiveness days' in conjunction with a food drive in the suggestion boxes. My hope is that I can clear enormous amounts of fines with a can green beans.  So far, no luck.