School Year Ends With a Whimper
My poor Big Boy. Grade one ends tomorrow (yes, we have much later ends to our school year here in Alberta, we start later too!) and he missed today and will almost certainly not be up for attending tomorrow either. He missed a fun activity today (a garage sale – sounds exciting doesn’t it?) and tomorrow is the big end of year party. Kind of sad, but he has yet another throat infection and without advil is sitting around 103 degrees for a temp. Wednesday after school he was so wiped that he fell asleep for 3 hours. He could make it through the day hopped up on fever reducer, but really not the
We will have to stop by the school tomorrow afternoon to pick up the final report card and get his class assignment for next year. And of course pick up his shoes and any leftover supplies and stuff. Should be fun lugging all that around plus a sick 7yo and the 4 and 1 year olds. You envy me of course?
Guess we’re skipping the potluck party with friends too – no point in their kids starting out the summer vacation with sickness. Oh well – could be worse, at least he’s not missing exams or anything!
Bye-bye grade one. We had some good times, and now Big Boy can move on to grade two, sniff, sniff. Darn kids – keep on growing up on me!
