Three more days left of school. Wednesday is their last day. Today is field day, a day of fun outdoor activities traditionally reserved for the 5th graders only, but this year they opened it up to the whole school. Fifth grade gets a full day and the rest of the grades get to participate in the afternoon. They even have a dunk tank and the kids all got to vote on which teachers and staff get dunked! The kids are pretty excited. They were looking for volunteers (for the day, not the dunk tank!), but I opted out. I’m just exhausted lately. I had already volunteered to pickup the yearbooks this afternoon, so I figured that was enough for me. :) Speaking of volunteering, I won an iPad for all my volunteering this year! The PTO put an incentive program into place this year to encourage parent volunteers. Each time you helped out you were supposed to sign in on the volunteer log. I did about half the time. I’m there a lot, but because I want to not because of the incentive. The school hosted the annual ice cream social on Friday night, but we skipped it because it was cold and rainy. I was working for Good Beginnings that night and Alan didn’t love the idea of rowdy, sticky faced kids running around in the school cafeteria. Instead he bought the kids ice cream and had movie night at home. At the ice cream social they did the raffle for the iPad and my name was drawn! A friend of mine who was there was madly texting me at work. :) When I dropped the kids off at school this morning the principal gave it to me. Sooo… there’s that.
I have been really looking forward to summer vacation. This year, especially this spring, has been so hectic and despite the regular school schedule I feel like I personally haven’t had any sort of regular schedule. Some days I’m subbing, some days I’m not, some days I’m at Good Beginnings, or errands or whatever. Life, I know. I’m ready for it to slow down for awhile and I’m ready to actually be home for awhile! My house is piling up, my kids are seriously regressing in the nice behavior and good manners department, and I am just hanging on. I have plans for the summer. The kids are dreading it, but we are going to do some serious work on table manners. :) I feel like I’m living with cavemen these days! Add to that the chaos in my house with the still-unfinished bathroom project and the awesome basement project (I owe you blog posts on both of those activities!) and my house is full of clutter, displaced bathroom items, basement debris, etc. Life, you know?!
On that note, I have to run. Three more days of school and they are all full. Then we are done. We breath. We relax. For a few days. Then soccer camps starts up next week and summer travel soon after! ;)
