Last day of school

 Finally a normal school year!

Semi-normal....

Per COVID regulations, school started out with the same old garbage; reporting cases, quarantining, contact tracing....and then ended completely normal.  It was awesome!  We are SO lucky we live in Florida right now, because back in NJ, things are still crazy and weird.

Thank goodness in Florida we don't give a crap.

The last day of school began with my children allowing me to harass them with the camera (again).  I always tell Charlotte to open her eyes when she's smiling, because she gets very squinty with a big happy smile.  The "open eye" result is somewhat frightening.    …Frightening because she looks like she just had her eyes done at Ponte Vedra Plastic Surgery.

Oliver always starts out strong, being my natural photogenic child, but then again, it always unravels rapidly with him.

Gabe wasn't having picture time.  He wanted to get to school and party hardy.

I swear I didn't plan it, but they all dressed in the same color scheme.  In fact, I didn't even see it until I took this photo.

It's a toss-up who wins for most growth this year.  Oliver definitely grew the most inches (maybe Gabe?), but Charlotte just looks so stinkin' grown up.  Maybe it's the makeup, maybe it's the clothes, maybe it's the fact that her face is coming out of the middle school awkward phase when everything kind of grows at different speeds.  I don't know.  Maybe it's just that I consciously know she's going to high school next year (!!!).  We'll never know.  

What I do know is that since we moved to FL, it feels as though things have kicked into high gear, and I can't seem to get things to slow down.  My children certainly didn't get the memo, they keep speeding along at lightening speed giving me whiplash and heart palpitations.  Stop it!

As per our N House tradition, we took the kids for ice cream on the last day of school.  I asked them what their favorite thing about the school year was.  Charlotte's favorite was grad nite--the dance on the evening of her graduation.  Oliver's favorite thing was band. (yay!).  Gabriel's favorite thing was his field trip to the Museum of Natural Science and History in Jacksonville.  I got to chaperone that trip.  It was indeed pretty awesome.

Remember when I said I'd never chaperone another school trip?

Yeah that was funny.