Wednesday, May 21, 2008

End of the school year!

Yesterday, I dropped Jack off at his last full day of 3 year old preschool!! He cried as usual. I should have been the one crying!! My last 2 1/2 hours of free time, time all by myself to do whatever I choose! No more of that until the beginning of September! Chris and I went out to lunch and then to a hobby shop for those last 2 1/2 hours.

My baby boy graduates his first year of preschool tomorrow!! Many times, say about 98% of the time, I wondered how he would make it through the school year! We had about 3 weeks of no cry days! The other days were filled with clinging onto my leg while I was dropping him off. He's the youngest in his class, he turned 3 about 2 days after starting. He loves school, but he also really loves his mommy. As soon as I'd walk out the door, he'd stop wimpering or crying. We were really lucky that he had a great set of teachers! They were so good with him and we're so thankful for that! He just loves them! It's been really good for him, he's grown so much and needs and loves the socialization! He's very proud of himself, and so are we!

For next school year, we've enrolled him in the 5 day 4 year old program. I'm hoping that he has this huge revelation over the summer and will not do the cling-on thing the whole entire year again!! A week or two would be fine, but please no longer!! What a wonderful thing it will be when I have 2 1/2 hours free to myself 5 days a week! Is there a huge bright light shining from your computer? That's me beaming at the thought of free time to myself everyday!! *giggle*

Macy is done school on June 6th. Wow, we'll have a first grader and a 4 year old preschooler soon! It's amazing! We've got lots of fun things planned for the summer!!

I've been busy working on projects for Scrapbook News and Review but had time to sneak in a layout for an art challenge I hosted for my LSS.


I painted the entire background paper for this. I kinda felt like my friend Kimberly. I think she would be proud of me! Whaddya think, Kimberly??

I'm going to journal on the arrows but not really sure where I want to go with the journaling, so I'll figure that out later!!

Gotta go get Macy at school!! Have a great day! Thanks for reading!!

16 comments:

Sarah Coggins said...

Cool page! Love the background and those arrows. tfs! :)

ellen s. said...

oh that is a very cool page! i love it! can't believe the end of the year is upon us already! ah!

Patrice~ said...

that LO has some major Kimberly mojo goin' on, Rachael!
stunning piece!!

Karen said...

First of all, that layout is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!

Katie finished up on the 18th of June, and like you, she will be in full time 5 day prek next year. Enjoy your 2.5 hours!!!!!

Have a great day, and can't wait to see more of your creations!

Melanie said...

It's a mommy thing. My kids always cried when I dropped them off but not when DH dropped them off. Very cool LO, Rachael! Awesome background!

Melonie said...

YAY Jack! Congrats on finishing preschool.

LOVE the background that you painted on this!

scrappermimi said...

Free time, LOL! No such thing in the summer.

I just love the background, very cool!

Just Me said...

Love that layout. No surprise there. I don't think I've met a layout of yours I didn't like! ;)

DebW said...

Very very cool LO!!

Edleen said...

love the paint work on your LO!!!

have a great weekend :)

merrymstamper said...

this paper you created is just awesome! The LO is soo cool.

Trish said...

Awesome background!

Yay Jack! I know Tyler stil cries when I drop him off and pick him up at "school". But he is fine for Matt. Drives me nuts so days.

Kendra said...

I'm really loving that background!!! I have a big fear of painting like that so I'm impressed.

Kimberly said...

holy crap i LOVE THIS PAGE!!!!! LOL!! you are so right! this is amazing! and you may have just inspired my next piece! LOL! i can't even begin to tell you how much i love this page! lol...

and dude. i feel your pain about no more free time. E gets out of school on the 4th. i didn't have much time (only while alexander napped)..but soon i will have NO time. and i'm dreading it.

and i just gotta say one more time...i love this page!!!!! that background absolutely rocks and works so well with the photo. LOVE.

Carla said...

OOOOOHHHH they grow fast done they? Before you know it they will be in high school like mine....Man, Mariah will be a junior next year and RJ will be a freshman....
Enjoy them when they are little.
I LOVE your lay out....wow thats alot of painting going on!

Angel said...

I saw those double rainbows too!
Love your LOs ... I love using paints on pages! Have a great Summer! Can't wait to read about more camping adventures!