warm weather, please come......

My dear friend Becky, emailed me last minute and said she would be driving through town, so she was here on Cinco de Mayo. The kids loved the pinata. It was so sturdy that I was able to put it away for next year! :)

Recent rainbow pic. Rain, rain, rain. It's May now. Where are the flowers? Oh mine are dead- from the frost.....:)

The kids making plans with Aunt Lora and Uncle Andrew....

Ian is on and off with it. Some days he's excited and then other days it is pure meltdown. In fact last week Jer had to the coach the team and he had been whiny the previous week when dad was coaching. Maybe I shouldn't say whiny, more like sobbing...so this week we told him, if he started crying about it, he wasn't going and dad would leave without him.

I should mention that we have told him that we won't be doing it next year because it seems to be such an ordeal for him, but this year- he made a commitment and he told his team he would be there- so we will be. Needless to say, he pulled it together most of the day until right before his game, "My legs hurt!" "I can't run!" "I don't want to do soccer." So- Dad left without him. He ran to the door and realized Dad had really done it and came in sobbing and begging, "Mom, I need you to take me to my game." "I can't honey, Libby's sleeping. You should have stopped crying when Dad asked and gone with him. Now you'll have to stay home and take a nap with everyone else...." I sadly told him. Hard lesson, but effective. The next practice, he was PERFECT.

We thought Luke would really enjoy soccer this year. And he usually does- at least some form of it. He enjoys chasing the kids around. He has no intention of keeping track of the ball. We possibly have very nonathletic kids. I must have brought that gene.

So 18 more days til school's out and who knows how many days til we have warm weather. I should bring up now- that our school rocked our state testing. Which is a huge victory! We not only reached safe harbor (which is normally the goal to try and make....) but we met the goals of AYP (Adequate Yearly Progress) and were even a few percentage points above them. I am so grateful for the momentum that it has given the kids and the staff.

I started the garden and have covered it some nights but the last two nights I didn't (last night I even checked on the freeze) and now everything is done for. (sigh). I just bought started plants that my co-worker grows in her greenhouse for her own garden and then sells the starts for $1.00 to recoup her costs. So I only bought what I thought I needed- according to what I already had planted. Well now- that is nothing. Anyway, I'm irritated, but trying to chalk it up to a learning experience. (minus the cost. )

We'll see if I have any "fruits" from my labor.