Summer Vacation! Yay!

I survived! We all did!
Actually it went really well. Everyone got along, we laughed, giggled, reminisced, and talked about the future.

My daughter was so beautiful in her cap and gown. I felt like I was glowing right along with her.
To see your child accomplish her high school years with relatively little scratches, is such a great feeling. She never got involved in drugs, or lost friends. Had one breakup that was painful for her, but not so much that she couldn't deal with it. She got good grades, made lots of friends, grew into a bright, responsible, and beautiful woman.
I am proud to call her my daughter!

My gramma took my 3 year old niece with her to AZ. My niece will get to see her parents, my parents, her gramma, great grandparents, godparents, cousins, and family friends.
I am sure she is going to have the time of her life.
I am a little afraid of how spoiled she will be when she comes back home. I can't imagine that with all those grandparents that she won't be spoiled. In fact, since I know every single grandparent, I am positively confidant that she will be spoiled rotten.
It may be a culture shock for her when she comes back here.
For now, for us, its a culture shock not having her here! Its soooo quiet... No Dora on, or Diego. No Sesame Street muppets singing ABC's.
Weird.
By the time its no longer wierd, she will be home.

Today is the last day of school for my boys! Yay!!!
Now we get to travel with hubby to all kinds of fun places.
This weekend we are going tubing. I saw the pictures in our local newspaper and it looks beautiful. I am very excited.
We couldn't do it before since my niece can't swim yet. But my boys can, and I will be buying them lifejackets today, because even good swimmers can have issues in unfamiliar places, like a fast moving creek.
My daughter and her BF may even drive up and go with us.

I can remember my mom dreading summer vacation. "you kids home all day, underfoot, arguing who gets what toy, I can't stand it. Give me year round school!"
Maybe I shouldn't 'quote' that, but its phrases I heard all my school years mixed into one sentence.
Then on the first day of school she would be doing Happy Dances.
I'm sure of it.
Not me.
I love it when my kids are home. They really don't argue about things. I love hanging with them, and playing with them. Or just simply listening to them and being fascinated by their imaginations at work.
They get to stay up late, and sleep in.
Yes, they do sleep in. I am lucky in that way.
No more struggling with homework times.
Although I do have a huge book of school work for each of them that they have to complete by the end of summer.
I do not want them to fall behind because their heads will be filled with all the fun we will have.

Summer Vacation.... Here we come!!!!! Yay!!!