Summer Break!

June 6th was the last day of school. It was a half-day, and I don't know why they bothered. Actually, the 5th was supposed to be the last day of school but the school had to make up some of those snow days, so I guess the 6th was just a token "go to school and go home day" to at least say they made it up.
Cassie's report card came in, and she did better than we all thought, even to her surprise. We walked into her room, report card in hand, and forced some grave expressions on our face.
"Do you know what this is?" I said as I shook the report card in my hand. She said she didn't know.
"It's your report card," I said with a scowl. "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Cassie apologized profusely, made a few excuses.
"What do you mean getting all A's, B's, and C's on your report card? Where are the D's?"
She just looked at me stunned for a moment. She had thought she'd be getting a D, maybe even an F, in her Language Arts class. Somehow, with a lot of last minute hard work, she pulled off a C.

Oh, speaking of last minute hard work in her Language Arts class, the photos in this entry are of her project for that class. Their assignment was to create a super hero, write a story, and make a life-size drawing of that character. The pictures show her making that life sized drawing. She is very talented at drawing, especially manga characters. Her super-hero was a character she named Elixir, and the villain of her story was named Toxic. Elixir is pretty cute, no?

She eventually gave her Elixir drawing to a friend. Oh, note the inspirational pictures of the combat boots she wanted for her birthday, stuck in a picture frame and occasionally hugged. I think she was hinting at what she REALLY wanted for her birthday!