I recently got lost re-reading old blog posts. Even though it was only one year ago, it hit me again just how strangely we ended our last school year. We went into this year managing our expectations and every one of them was far exceeded! This reflection on the 2 most recent school years makes me just want to shout my praise and gratitude from the rooftops (or from the keyboard of my office computer)!
In the preschool, we praise God that we were able to open and close on time, do in person instruction all year long, smoothly implement new safety practices, and keep all our students healthy. I didn't miss a single day for sickness!! I had one of my sweetest classes ever, with encouraging, generous, supportive parents. It was a GREAT year and it was all God's hand!
(These beautiful flowers were just one of the many thank you gifts I received at the end of the year.)
We celebrated as a staff with an all together indoor lunch.
And then I had 3 other meals in the following days with my teacher friends. Including one at the coffee shop where we got REAL GLASSES for the first time in over a year!
Highlights of the end of Ella's school year included fun dress up days, Field Day, another Presidential Award for keeping a 4.0 GPA and getting her braces off after 4 years!!
She bids farewell to some of her dearest friends as they graduate. We've been so blessed by our current senior class and can't imagine our high school without them or their leadership. This was a bittersweet Graduation.
Delia's year ended with a class trip to Santa Cruz and a whole 8th grade class party after her Celebration. She was all excited that at the party she was able to talk to and hang out with every single one of her classmates at some point!
And in there, Dave and I celebrated our 22nd anniversary. We used a gift card to finally check out a local fancy restaurant. We loved watching what was happening in the glass kitchen, sharing a scrumptious tiramisu, and running into some good friends who share the same anniversary.
We started this year with triple digit heat and wildfires and shut downs and a lot of question marks about how long we'd stay open, what instruction would even look like, and how many of our favorite things would be off the table again. And now I look back and see what an abundance of gifts we were given this year: Anne of Green Gables, Lake Tahoe with Kyle, Broadway Showcase, Formal, Easter with Kris and the boys, Mom Prom, GEMS Camp, family adventures in Angels Camp, Yosemite, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, the building of Shorty the robot, class trips, parties, a solid year of instruction, and every COVID test we took this year being negative! Thanks be to God.
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