Sassi Cassi Lou

Hip hop hooray! Ho! Hey! Ho! Where oh where has this past year gone? Kekoa is now a 2nd grader. I am one year older and have completed a whole school year in a new job?!? What the heck!!! Well this week has been crazy!! Being that last week all of the kids at school have been bouncing off of the walls! And have the teachers and faculty. I had a full school day on Monday. Tuesday was a half day and after that we had our last faculty party. On Wednesday we had another half day, but I had to stay at shcool to help get ready for graduation. Today I was only at school for 2 hours and now I am done! Yippie! I am ready for Summer.

I must say that as happy as I am this is also bittersweet for me. It is awesome because I was getting a little burnt out with school. I was ready to have a break from some of my students. I needed a break from the attitudes and excuses. However, I love 'my kids' to death and that is where the bittersweet part comes in . I don't know who will be around next fall. I have a tenative list of who I am supposed to have, but three months is a long time for my kids. A lot can happen. Today we signed yearbooks and that was fun. My book got pretty filled. I had students and teachers sign. I'm glad to know that some of the teachers appreciate me, but it was even nicer to have my kids thank me for taking care of them. I am going to miss seeing my kids. Part of the fun of my job is that I can have a normal life... and when I need something to make life interesting I can ask how any one of my students are doing. I have some of the coolest kids. I know for sure I am losing at least one, they are moving away. Other then that I guess we'll have to wait and see. As I cleaned up my class room it also made me sad to say good-bye to my collegues. We have quite a few moving away for various reasons and we are a pretty tight group at IHS. We slug through some pretty tough stuff together and there aren't that many of us so we have grown pretty tight. Then there are people like my friend Jamie. Jamie and LOVE to giggle and have fun. She is the Commercial Art teacher at IHS. I was lucky enough to see Jamie every morning for 1st period. It was awesome. We would take turns bringing breakfast and swapping stories about what's new. SO MUCH FUN!! Plus we get to make fun of stuff together and just be goofy. We are quite loud together and a little ditzy too, but it's a BLAST!! Oh! What will I do with out my Jamie fix every morning? Eh! We text each other enough I know I will live.

Here is the other thing about summer vacation...I don't know what I am going to do with myself for the next three months. I haven't been a SAHM (stay at home mom) for over 5 years. I will have all summer to be with my kids. And to top it all off my mother and father in law will not be around. Wow! I am very exctied to do a tons of stuff with them. I'm thinking park trips, library trips, days at the pool, maybe even go to a couple of museums.... we'll see. This will be a fun summer for us Palmers! I will be online probably alot this summer so IM me if you want or just email. I can't wait to see what everybody else is doing this summer also. Aloha!! Cass

Hallelluja!!! I have 8 days left and then I am out for Summer Vacation! I am so excited. Not much is going on here with us. Matt is still in school. I am still loving Independence High School (and looking forward to summer). The kids are getting bigger. Here are some recent pics of the kids. I promise that I will write a more subsantial entry soon. (I got called out by my friend Kayelynn about my lack of posts) Please check out my Harrington Family Blog. That is something big happening for my brothers. (Hint Hint check KJZZ out on the 19th!!) I'm sure that I will have lots of pictures to share in the next week. My dad is coming into town to spend some time with the kids.

Latas! Cassi-Lou