As an update, since the original post actually occurred the first week of June, is this.  My son DID go to summer school.  He finished with an 87, which is 3 points away from an A, so I was very happy with that.

My 9 yr old son, Kyle, the one that failed third grade, also went to summer school.  Called summer reading camp, it's free, provided by the school, & gives them another test like the standardized test they had to pass in order to be promoted to the next grade.  We JUST found out that he scored a 95% on this second test, so obviously something went wrong with the first test he took.  Bottom line, he's being promoted to 4th grade!

The construction on the house addition was finished, it looks wonderful, the AC is in, & we're enjoying it a lot.

Our new show kittens are almost 7 weeks old now, & are into everything.  We are very happy with how they are turning out, & I will have new pics of them up soon.

My oldest daughter went & got herself a tattoo.  Sigh.  Not that it's not pretty, but she got matching ones with her boyfriend.  The boyfriend may disappear one of these days, but ink lasts forever.  At least it's stars & not his name!  Ah well, what can we do?  She's 19 1/2, will be 20 in January, she's an adult.  She moved out last year after coming to live with us again for the summer.  We tried to talk her into staying, but she said she missed her family up north too much.  Cest la vie.  This is the child who graduated National Honor Society but won't go to college.  I think that's WHY she went back up north.  They let her do whatever she wants, where if she stayed here with us, she WOULD have been going, because we would have enrolled her!  Hopefully one of these days she'll wake up.

All we can do is guide, & give advice.  We can hope they'll take it, & learn from OUR mistakes, so they don't make the same stupid ones we did before them.

Hope someone looks at the photos I posted, & enjoys them!  Those are just the first ones I tossed up there, so I'd love some feedback!