SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is the last official day of school for everyone I work with. It's been a slow trickle for the past week of "last days", but today is it - YEAH!

I went out to my last school today and participated/watched their end of school picnic/field day. It was great to see the kids all running around and having a great time. There had apparently been a water fight earlier, which was continuing on in trickles (hee, hee, trickles - water fight - I'm so punny!). They had a BBQ, a presentation of "graduation" between classes, and were about to have root beer floats and games when I got there. My student who had left for surgery was back visiting, so I got to see him and his family. I got to visit with staff and parents, and I got to see the other kids whom I don't work with on a regular basis, but who have come to think of me as part of their school "family". It was a great time!

One of my mothers gave me some tea to try - it's called Kombucha and is made out of mushrooms. The funny part was her handing it to me in an old Jack Daniels bottle - "no really officer, it's organic mushroom tea..." I have yet to try it, but it's in the fridge waiting.

SO - here I am back at home trying to finish up as much paperwork as I can today so that tomorrow is just a matter of packing for karate camp, delivering some copies to the school, and heading out for the weekend. Next week while M is at VBS I will take care of packing up my stuff, making sure all the details are taken care of and getting ready to turn it all in on Wednesday when I meet with the boss.

Technically my last day of work is Friday, but I'll be working through next Wednesday getting it all taken care of. Not a problem at all - M will be at VBS while I'm working next week so I'm not cutting into our summer schedule.

Speaking of summer schedules...ours is filling up quickly...we have:

Karate Camp
Family Camping Trips
Swimming Lessons/Team
OMSI Camp
Tahoe Trip
M/D trip to Wisconsin/Minnesota
hanging out
playing
visiting our local county parks

It's going to be a fun summer and I can't wait to turn in my "work", file for unemployment, and get it started!