Tidbits

I've been so busy with work and family the past couple weeks, I haven't had time to blog (I miss it!). Here are a few things that are/have been happening in my life:

1. Nate has another ear infection. Tubes? Remind me why we did that surgery...

2. Andrew turned six on Thursday. I'm such a flake these days that I was out shopping for his birthday presents at 9:00 p.m. Wednesday night. Thank God for Target! I did make cupcakes for his class, though. Woo hoo... sometimes I rock!

3. Wednesday night, after my frenzied birthday shopping, I figured I had just enough time to wax my eyebrows. I ended up being in too much of a hurry-- and the glass of wine didn't help-- I carelessly got too much wax on my eyebrow. I ripped the hair out, only to discover that I took a chunk of the middle of my left eyebrow with it. Thank God for eyebrow pencils!

Before eyebrow pencil...

After eyebrow pencil...

4. A couple of my students found some caterpillars on the bushes on the playground. We are now housing about 7 squirmy, hungry, spiky caterpillars. The students chose the names: Chico, Mr. Pickles, Spike Jr., Slash, Dot, Monkey, and Spike Sr. One has already turned into a chrysalis... I hope it's a butterfly and not a moth.

5. I went to a meeting for Heritage Charter School parents' meeting on Thursday night (Andrew is number 4 on the waiting list for 1st grade). Very interesting. Is that the place for us? IF we get in, I think it will be. There are about 700 people on the school-wide waiting list.

6. I've been so exhausted lately. Why? I don't know!

7. I'm getting to the end of my school year... I'm making lessons plans up to the last week of school already!

8. I'm trying to plan a kids' birthday party for Andrew's birthday. Uh, yes... I know it was on Thursday. Did I mention I've been a complete flake these days? Anyway, the plan is to have it at a private museum, here in town. The museum owner has dinosaur fossils and lots of other cool stuff. Andrew is so excited! Remember, this is the kid who has his very own "museum" in his room.

9. Nathaniel can do a perfect-10 somersault. I need to get that scrappy little guy in gymnastics!

10. My husband is still wavering in his support of me getting a tattoo. I still really want to get one.

So, there ya go! These are all the topics I would devote entire blogs to but I don't have time.

Here are a few pictures of Andrew's birthday.

This was the morning of Andrew's birthday. He was a happy boy with more Indiana Jones Legos to add to his collection.

I guess the cupcakes were yummy enough for a bunch of kindergarteners to eat up!

At Red Robin... a great place to bring kids! And they bring out a Sundae for the Birthday Boy.

I found this while I was searching for the birthday pics. I think I just realized why I've been so exhausted! That's the Mommy & Daddy bed... notice the lack of space?