As time goes on and my kids get older, I love having them home for summer more and more. Fortunately for me, my girls are easy and I don't have the pressure of trying to keep them busy, so basically summer is just a time that we can have fun when we want to and do what we feel like doing.
Also Paige has so many neighborhood friends that she is out playing for huge stretches all day. Sometimes I hardly see her. Even if her friends come over to our house, they just go off and play so it makes it pretty easy for me.
The last day of school for my girls was on June 4th which was a Monday. I hate that! After the weekend they had to go back to school on Monday for a lousy half day. More of an incovenience than anything else. Oh, well. Paige also had two friends come over after school to celebrate "the last day of school" with us.
First, we all went out to lunch at McDonalds. Then we grabbed our tennis rackets and went to the courts to play tennis. Right next to the courts are a sand volleyball pit and playground. So when the little girls got tired of tennis, they played on the equipment and then dug around in the sand. Afterwards, we came home and turned on the sprinkler to clean off the sand and dirt
And of course, it wouldn't be a real celebration without some chocolate, so we had chocolate fondue for a treat:
Seriously, you should have seen the condition I sent Paige's friends home in--sandy/muddy, wet, sunburned with chocolate stains---can you say DIRTY.
Dirty, yes - but what memories!!!
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