Last Day of School!

I have been dreading the end of school this year. With four active kids to keep busy and keep up on school work with, I haven't been very excited. But, a couple of days ago when Little Lou said to me in a frustrated tone of voice that "it's going to be a long summer" I realized that I had said that a few too many times and I needed to change my attitude. Spending time with my kids should be some of the happiest times for me. Sometimes the special needs of some of my kids wear me out and I don't enjoy being with them, but I know that a lot of that is about my attitude and expectations and those are things that I can adjust. So I decided to start the summer off with some fun. I found this idea on the fun blog My Mix of Six. I made an end of the school basket for each kid with some fun things for the summer. Water bottles, flip flops, butterfly nets, lemonade... and a note from me telling each of them how proud I am of how much they accomplished this school year. They loved it and it was nice for them to have something fun for the first afternoon they were home. Dinner at Arctic Circle (Jared is still out of town so I can get away with that!) and s'mores at the neighbors house tonight made the day really fun. And I am excited to have eight weeks of summer fun with my kids.