May. 20, 2008 - Spring Has Sprung!
Wow! As I sit to write, and see it has almost been two months since I've done so, I am shocked that it has been so long. But we have been busy with a capital B.
After spring break we finished with the last weeks of co-op classes for Spanish, drums, and drama. Then the drama group performed the play they'd been working on, a comedy version of the Odyssey, the beginning of May.
My thirteen year old son finished up with his last weeks of first year confirmation class. Then the weather warmed a bit, the grass started to grow, and he is now keeping up with a booming lawn care business. He has made his own business cards, keeps an account log, has made customer survey sheets he hands out at each job, and has already invested (with his first profits) in his very own lawn mower and a utility cart to transport all of his tools to each job.
My oldest daughter turned sixteen in April. She has started to work as a busser at the restaurant where my oldest son had worked. We went this past weekend to open her own checking and savings accounts. When not working, she is busy finishing up with her last weeks of high school.
My two youngest have been busy just playing outdoors after school- bike riding, jump rope, baseball, soccer, playing at the park.
So then besides still trying to get in a full schedule of school, and all of the above, we have had youth group activities, park days, 4-H meetings and workshops, have taken time to work on 4-H projects, and have been working on our own yard work and gardening. We had my mother-n-law's 70th birthday party, my ten year old's first communion, my daughter's 16th birthday party, a few cousin's birthday & baptism parties to attend, and we and have taken on the task of running my father to the store & such each week.
I am definitely looking forward to June, when we will cut back to only reading for school and I will be done teaching Sunday school too. Then I might actually get to work on some of the projects I have put on hold so as to get everything else done. :) I have five months worth of pictures to scrapbook, kitchen curtains to finish sewing, a shadow box to make for my oldest son, some painting to finish in the living room, and a list of books & mags that I would like to read.
