I know Pups wants to know about the concert so I decided to write a quick note..I realized it's been awhile since I wrote about anything so I better get up to date first.
The kid's 4H presentations went great. Katelyn cried most of the day before the event due to nerves but after practicing it over and over again in front of us and a former 4H member who gave her great confidence... she ended up with a perfect score of 100. Schylar had a score of 99 for his public speech and had 1 point docked for not enough gestures...but it was said of them after we left that they both 'blew the judges socks off!' - we were able to go out to eat for a treat and even made prayer meeting on time. I was SO glad to have it over with - and since that major time commitment I've been working with them to get caught up with the school that had to be put aside for other things and get my 3rd Quarter reports in the mail this week. The kids have done a ton of tests and work to get up to speed so we can take the week after Easter off to go to Gettysburg and DC with my Mom who is coming to visit this next week.
Yesterday, Ed and I sent the kids with friend, Donna, so we could go to do our taxes and then rushed to get our dinner reservation at 5 pm before our concert with Steven Curtis Chapman and Michael W. Smith. The taxes were bad..we owed...and we didn't  make the dinner reservation on time and so they gave our seat away and put us in the back of a very noisy bar/restaurant with NO light and a dirty table. The waitress was horrid and the prices were not worth the food. My dinner took 40 minutes (it was a salad!) to deliver and then it was missing key aspects of the advertized plate. It was overall a miserable experience from start to finish. I couldn't wait to leave. The concert was right next door so we just walked to the Stanley Theatre and was glad I did - Ed ran to take his shoe-leather steak to the car before we went in and got thoroughly soaked - the rains were torrential! While we were waiting - we spotted Melissa and Jonathan Jackson and got to talk with them. They had been given tickets and drove to NY from NH to spend the night and then return today. While we were talking... a couple came to sit in their seats which happened to be the ones WE were in - when we looked backed at the seats Ed had purchased - there was only one - the other seat was not there! Yep...this day was going swell....
The staff got me a chair and just sat me out a bit in the aisle and it was fine. There were no air guitarists next to us...nope - just a guy who kept boxing the air awkwardly.... good times! The concert was SOOO long. SCC was fabulous! He sang all my favs and I kicked myself for not remembering the kleenex - I knew I'd need them! Then they did an intermission and MWS did the next set which I was enjoying his newer songs but didn't really enjoy him so much and wish we had cut out early so I could get sleep but we did pay big bucks for my non-seat and it was our date night...even though it wasn't all it was anticipated to be....maybe it was the bad tax report...or the bad dinner...or the seat issue...either way - we crashed in bed at a little before midnight and were glad it was over.
Today Ethan had baseball practice in the rain - it was snowing up at our house. He and Ed were frozen when I picked them up after going to Curves and getting groceries. The other 3 stayed at the VanderGroef's while we were gone and then we went back at 11 am and picked them up and took the VG's 2 home with us. The wind is a brisk 40 mph and the woodstove is back in operation - it takes a day off and then works a day...
This week is less stress with no deadlines of projects or school so I'm thankful....hope to get some spring cleaning done but with the winter type weather predicted - maybe we'll just wait until after Mom leaves. Off to get my eggs at the Amish store...chow!

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