Last Day of School Y'all!

The girls have successfully completed 3rd grade and Kindergarten! 

It was a fucked up year to say the least and they both missed out on normalcy. 

Ava didn't get to start her real school journey until May 3rd of this year. 

However, once they started back full-time, it was glorious. 

For them and for us. 

And I'm super proud of these girls for being resilient and for getting through the really weird year. 

It was a beautiful day - 79 and sunny. Not a cloud in the sky. So after I picked them up from their half day (so like 11:30am), we did a quick lunch of hot dogs and french fries in the air fryer (I had a shake) and we went out to the pool. 

I still had to work...so...I brought it outside with me. #workanywhere

HAPPY SUMMER VACATION!!!

We are so busy the next 2 weeks and I'm super pumped about it. Steve and I are doing a lot of shuffling around to make sure everyone sees everyone.

With Steve's sister's family in town, we wanted to make sure the cousins got a chance to spend as much time together as possible. They are all around the same age (almost 11, almost 9, 9 and 6.5) so they really do get along well. 

We also don't have any sort of childcare this summer, except for two weeks of summer camp in July.

Steve took the day off today (Friday) so that he could spend time with his sister and all the kids. I have to work.

Then tonight the girls are spending the night at my mom's house because I have two appointments tomorrow morning - eyebrows and eyelashes. 

After that, our friends are having an "end of the school year" party at their house - they have a pool and pond. I was going to bring all 4 girls with me to this party, but my SIL is a bit uncomfortable since it's all people they don't know at all and we likely won't be wearing masks. So I totally get it and I likely wouldn't go either if the roles were reversed. I am not at all offended. 

But then I thought more about it and thought to ask my two girls if they'd rather come with me, or if they'd rather stay with their cousins on Saturday. 

It was a tough decision apparently! I figured it'd be easy for them to choose spending time with cousins because they don't get to see them often and they always have so much fun together. 

They did ultimately choose to do family/cousin time and NOT come with me to the party. 

Totally fine. I may be a little lonely and end up sitting by myself...but that's ok. 

I'll also be the lucky one sitting alone and responsible for no one but myself. That rarely happens!

Sunday we are all going to the local (small) amusement park, SeaBreeze. It's going to be a hot one. 

Monday I think is a day off for everyone (I have to work) and then Tuesday they are going to the larger amusement park (Darien Lake).

Then we leave for vacation Thursday. And we're leaving for the islands a bit sooner than I thought. Check-in was originally 3pm. But we also thought about staggering our arrival times because we aren't picking up our boat until Friday. 

And we have a lot of people to get to the island.

One boat; one jetski.

We thought it'd make sense to NOT all be there at once, so there's less waiting around. But, we figured out a way to get all the people to the island first, then the 3 adult boys will go back and forth and shuffle luggage and coolers/food, etc. 

And then we also found out we could check in a little early - like 1-1:30pm.

So I pretty much lost my morning on "getting ready for vacation" so I'll need to do a bulk of my packing and shit Wednesday night. And I work a full day on Wednesday. 

Ugh.

But! So much fun stuff coming up and I'm super excited. 

HELLO SUMMER!