End of the ’06 – ’07 School Year

Yes, my children’s education for the year came to a close yesterday. No more educating them. From now until Fall nothing of value will be crammed into their ungrateful skull cavities, items of potential import will be chased away until their brain stems putrefy into steaming wreckages of mush that will be hopelessly lost to higher function until four days after the next school year begins at which time whatever neurons remain realize that they need to start reproducing immediately if they are going to survive the year at all.

Ha! Don’t they wish. Hehe. They may think they are entirely free to do nothing but watch Disney movies and play on the computer for the next several months, but those children are entirely mistaken. Old Mom has been contemplating a wide variety of summer tortures, errrr educational activities, for them. Plus their teacher is a good friend of mine and she’s got vacation homework plans for them as well. Bwa ha
ha ha! Learning does not end due to external temperature variation.

Anyway, that’s our excitement for this week. Last week’s broken arm
excitement concluded with a green cast that is now covered with large
quantities of hieroglyphics. Lots of relatives plus a small cast on a short arm make writing space at a premium. Anika is handling herself very bravely and so far barely complaining at all.

She only has to have her cast on for three weeks (down to two now), which means it should be off about two days before we leave for Family Camp. Hurray! That means I don’t have to try to keep her out of the ocean for an entire week while her brother and sisters are busy soaking themselves and everyone withing splashing distance.

That’s it for here! Have a great week.

Rachel