With this month’s time change, the Ulmers are now getting up too late and it seems attitudes about getting school work done are quickly deteriorating. Teacher must constantly harangue students to complete their work and students resist and grow more distracted by the day. Productivity is down. Husband wonders why we are not doing spring cleaning.

The Kids this Month

Notable activities include:

Riley goes to the Cub scout banquet, gets his belt and activity beltloops, takes a scouting outing to the local jail to be fingerprinted and to the bowling alley to see how the pins magically stand back up.

Sylvia wows her 4-H group with her handle on parliamentary procedure which she has been acquiring at Jr. Fair board meetings, she helps with 4-H recruitment at a local grade school and participates in the Winter Fair at the poultry booth, she teaches her first piano lessons teaching two homeschool girls, defends a ‘criminal’ in a mock trial at HEART co-op, writes an awesome research paper on the Underground Railroad, does her K12 state testing and goes to Cincinnati 2000, a weekend youth retreat (she’ll probably write about that on her blog).

Victoria celebrates her 12^th birthday with a bowling outing with friends, cake, gifts and getting her own e-mail account, graces the house with her flute playing, earns real money as mother’s helper, is organizing her stamp collection in the great album she got from her Grandma & Papa for her birthday, oversees the fund raiser as 4-H club treasurer (want to buy a chocolate bar?) and cranks out letters to her pen pals by the dozens.

Geneva makes sure that Mom does NOT forget to do this year’s New Life Tree (an Easter Tradition), makes sure that Mom does NOT forget that she need a top to match her new skirt, makes sure that Mom does NOT forget to keep reading her Bible stories at bedtime and generally keeps Mom in line.

John is so happy to go outside and play in the sandbox, poke sticks into the soggy ground...

NOTE: I did not have time to finish this post but now it is so old I thought I would just post it and start anew on a new entry another day.