The last week of school is finally here! After ten months of work I am rewarded with something most adults only look back on with fond memories: summer.

Technically I have to work all week, but it’s much easier than that. We only have students for four of those days, and one of those four days I will be at Knott’s Berry Farm. Of those remaining three days, one of them students leave at noon, and another they leave at 1 pm. The only full day that I have to be there we have a two hour awards ceremony. All things considered, I’ve officially started my summer vacation NOW.

I’m looking forward to a lot of things this summer. Andrew and Sarah are getting married, we’re going camping one weekend, on a cruise for a few days, and there are several things I want to do that are hard to get done during the school year. I still have a lot of old family photos to scan and archive, I want to spend a lot of time working on my novel, and the house badly needs to be cleaned from top to bottom!

And I shaved off my beard!