The end of the school year came again

The last week of school was a blast for the girls. C & E had a field day, a pajama day, a board game day, and lots of cleaning interspersed with movies and giveaways (also known as teachers thinning out their collections).

S had a pizza day, an ice cream day, and a pajama day and she goes only three mornings a week! I must say I shed nary a tear at being done, done, DONE with preschool. I've loved the preschool all three girls attended, it is a five-minute walk from the house, the tuition was reasonable, the teachers warm and caring but . . . after four straight years of being on the board and the constant worries about money and the fundraising that went along with it, trying to come up with good snacks when those obligatory days came along, and just the general hassle, I was delighted to say a warm good bye to the teachers. I brought them each a little gift, which was a batch apiece of homemade chocolate chip walnut cookie dough frozen into a large log so they can make cookies at home with their children.

For C and E's teachers I wanted something kind of consumable also because I know teachers get a lot of cutsey things. I'm sure they would have liked a gift card to some place but that would have been too obvious, right? I know E's teacher likes to garden (I know this because she's one of my friends in my ward and I've been to her house many times) so I chose some vegetable starts for her: a tomato, two kinds of peppers, and a lavender plant.


I don't know C's teacher too well but figured a pot of cheery geraniums are always welcome, so I got the supplies . . .
. . . and assembled them into something *I* would like to receive, so I assume the teacher did too.
I took the plants to school while the girls were out at the field day and put them on each girl's desk with a note so she could present her gift to her teacher.

Let summer begin!