This weekend will be the first Memorial Day weekend in several years that we have not been able to spend a day with my dad at the lake. I'm really going to miss being able to be up there, but I'm grateful Dad is still around to make different memories. We'll probably be able to get some things done around here, but I know that this is the first weekend I'm really going to miss that he doesn't have his place anymore. It was Memorial Day last year that we were all able to be up there for the last time...there's just nothing like it.
After today the kids have six more days of school. As I've written I'm so looking forward to the year being over, but I'm also going to miss this time in our lives. This is the very last year that all three of my children will still be elementary students, and quite possibly the last year that all three of them attend school here in town. Major budget cuts were announced this week, and among the many changes are no more field trips. I regret that my kids will not get to have the same opportunities of those before them, and I'll be honest, I'm a little angry. I understand budgets are tight, but the district has acknowledged privately to individuals I know that this was due to a calculation error by our previous treasurer. Instead of a simple levy renewal two years ago, they allowed that to lapse, and now things are ugly. I'm going to miss the simpler times.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
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