The Countdown Begins

15 school days left. 15 days remain of SOME free time during the day. 15 days until I go completely insane! Welcome to my May.

This is a real busy month for us. I thought April was busy, but May will be twice the craziness! Both Ashley and Anthony have 2 field trips each to go on for school, and I will be attending 1 for each of them. Those are trips to Denver, at the zoo and museum. I'm looking forward to those actually. Hopefully they will be more fun than stressful. I don't know...surrounded by a bunch of elementary kids and middle schoolers? I may need a serious drink after those experiences.

There's Mother's Day, which really is not a big deal for me. Jason and Ashley want to get something for me, but all I can come up with is something for the house. This makes them so mad. Pretty much I just don't buy into the commercialism of it all. Again, I don't like flowers (they just die), I don't wear much jewelry (I am a plain jane when it comes to that), I make my own wine. Seriously...what is someone supposed to get me these days for a gift? I told them they can make dinner for me. That's all I want. I never get a full "free day", what difference would one day make? There's nothing I really want to go do either. Okay, maybe I'm plain, boring jane all the way.

We will be starting our landscaping project this month, so that will be a fun-filled adventure for our family to do together. (I'm being a little sarcastic on that one) I will keep track of how many arguments arise from that. The one thing we can agree one is we have different tastes when it comes to home improvement projects.

Anthony will be starting summer activities towards the end of the month. He will be still be in swim lessons, but we'll add on baseball too just for fun! Ashley will still be in her normal dance classes, getting ready for her dance recital in June, but this month is when dance pictures are taken. It is the week I dread the most of this whole year. That's right, I said week. A week long of photos for her 8 performances she will be in for the recital. It's just too stressful. I can't wait...

I am looking forward to this school year being over, but I'm kind of dreading not having any free time during the day. However, we will be implementing the Hoyt summer school activity again this summer...lucky kids! It's a program I started last summer where the kids complete activities in the summer bridge books, so they can keep up with reading, writing, and math. It helped Anthony tremendously getting up to speed with where he should have been in school. And it helped Ashley not just sit around and watch t.v. in her down times. And this summer, it means less facebook and texting time! Ha Ha! And we will also be doing some field trips with Gerianne and her kids, so we can have some sister time and they can have some cousin time! Okay...maybe it won't be so bad...