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This time of year is always bittersweet. If you have worked with 8th graders or seniors, Graduation is exciting! Students, teachers, and parents are turning the page. We finished one chapter and will be starting another. In the fall, we will be having a very different conversation with the Kindergarten and Freshman parents! It’s all about the “circle of life”, right? Endings and New beginnings. I like to think of it as evolving as a person, as growth and learning.

Thank you to all who prayed ardently that the rain would wait until after Field Day! We were blessed with beautiful weather and lots of smiling faces. During Covid, we developed the idea that the 8th graders would sponsor Field Day, organize it, develop the games and roles, and run the games, as a way to give the 8th graders something to help them “forget about Covid” for awhile. Never did I think it would be as rewarding and awesome as it has turned out to be.

According to the History Channel: “Celebrations of mothers and motherhood can be traced back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who held festivals in honor of the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele, but the clearest modern precedent for Mother’s Day is the early Christian festival known as “Mothering Sunday.”