In The Home Stretch

We are in the home stretch fro school this year.  Sarah is already getting distracted by everything.  She has five real days of school left, two more this week, and Monday thru Wednesday next week.  Thursday they go spend the day at Great America, and then Friday is a half day of signing yearbooks.  Then she has her graduation ceremony Friday evening.  I don't think she has much actual work left.  She told me she has all her final tests this week, and next week is just going to be pretty much just showing up.

Ali has the same thing going for her, except she doesn't get to go to  Great America. Next week they are going to spend a lot of their time cleaning their room and getting things packed up and put away for the summer. Next year Alison will be the big kid running the school while Sarah will be the pleeb.  I have a feeling that they cannot wait for that final bell to ring this year.

Graduation Day

We found out this week that Alison won't be able to attend Sarah's 8th grade graduation, or as they call it the "completion ceremony".  Because they are having the ceremony in the school auditorium and there are only 740 seats, every family will get two tickets.  Her class has something like 291 kids, so if the kids are all seated in the auditorium too, then seating is going to be very limited.

Now I realize that this is only an 8th grade graduation, but we couldn't have set up chairs in the gym with the bleachers?  I don't know the capacity of the gym but when we had the honors breakfast there were over 1000 people in the gym.  A little bit of planning please!  Alison is a little bit bummed out but there isn't much we can do except make the best of it.  I'll just have to make sure I take a good video of it for her.