And then we were done...for now...

Y'all. We are calling today the official last day of our 2013-2014 school year. We are heading out of town for a family vacation this weekend so I am in packing/cleaning mode. The pool will be open when we return. Aaron is finishing up his last week with students and is about to start his final round of classes for graduate school (he is working on his Education Specialist degree). The weather is warming (after a very strangely cold snap, which I will not complain about) and we want to be outside. So it just seems like this is good time to put away the school books for a little while and enjoy our summer activities.

Last week was our final week with Jude, ever. He starts Kindergarten in the Fall. He has been a big part of our lives the past few years and definitely felt like a member of the family. We will miss him.

This has been a good year. It has been really fun to study early American history with Sonlight Core D. We have taken lots of fun field trips and read lots of great books. Next year we will officially be doing two separate Cores (B for Nathaniel and E for Jeremiah) and that will be a new experience for us. But for right now we are shelving the books (except for the basket of fun read alouds we do all summer!) and are going to enjoy our two months of summer!