Why so many projects?

For those of you with kids in school...does it ever seem like every child's school projects are all due in the same week or day? We have just finished with the last of the elementary school projects tonight. Emily, Nate and Luke have five projects (between them) due today and tomorrow. The kids worked really hard on all of them but it seems like mom and dad end up doing a lot of last minute trips to the store for art supplies or sitting at the computer with a child to help with writing or graphics. Tonight's project was the worse but it truthfully was Denise's fault that it ended up being such a long night. More info tomorrow when we update the blog - I'm going to bed!