cleaning

Two rooms down...one to go! and that last one? totally makes me afraid.

Jack's room...

totally gives me the shivers.

i can't even find the floor. i have piles of clothes that fit/don't fit/need to be stored from his big brothers.

toys

toys

toys

and stuff.

that kid collects more stuff.

I helped with Keegan and Konley's today. We could finish it all up in about 2 hours. 2 rooms in 2 hours and 4 bags of clothes to be given away and one to keep for jack. phew.

but then there's Jack's.....

he's going to have to wait till I am no longer scared to walk into it.

what to do? what to do?

So, now that school is done we are wondering what to do, what to do? Without sunshine it is kind of a bummer. We are planning birthdays and cleaning rooms. But we haven't really gotten so far as to clean rooms. Just planning birthdays.

We have an alternate plan this summer. We are giving the older boys a "birthday allowance". They are being given an allotted amount of money to plan their own party. They can spend it on a party or they can save it and have no party. But they are in charge. They have to figure out the prices, the invites, the everything. It's going to be great. I usually spend all summer planning parties. Since everyone gets a kid party and everyone gets a family dinner. That makes for 6, count 'em 6!, summer birthday parties. That's ALOT of cake making, party planning, present buying, and chaos corralling. I will still plan Jack's. Can't really expect my 6, nearly 7 year old, to plan his own party, but soon....very soon. He is writing his invite list as we speak.

Summer

IT IS SUMMER! not that you would know it by the weather around here...but I am no longer telling 650 kids to finish their burger, eat your yogurt or your cheese, no you may not have seconds, yes you CAN get more ketchup (even if you just ate more ketchup than burger)!

It is just me and the boys (and Jeff when he gets home at night). I have never really looked forward to school being done....what will we do now without a structure? is what used to come to mind. Now?.........who cares? Let's go play.

We have things planned...soccer tournaments, family reunions, camping, more soccer, a wedding (we are kinda passed that stage in most friends life..one or two a summer), and hoping for sunshine. I am ready. I am hoping to start losing some of this "broken-leg-weight". I am ready... here we go.

haircut

I wasn't really driving down the road. We were waiting in the parking lot to pick up somebody... of course.

tho you need to tell me that I don't look like Farrah Fawcett, that's what I got from someone in the office today. I was kinda horrified! But I didn't let it do anything to my mood for the day. YAY!

Nearly here!

So, the way my last post went was totally typical for the day. I posted it. I ranted about the day I was having. I hit publish and lo and behold my computer said, "nope!" "see ya!" Phew! It's been nearly a month and it is better.

Yesterday I want into Regis Salon and said uncurl it and cut it off. I saw the movie Tangled a few weeks ago and when he cut off her hair in the end to save her I said, "that's it!" It's been on my mind for weeks. Did I dare? I haven't cut it above my shoulders in years. What to do with all the curls? As i cut it shorter it gets curlier. Can't have that. Not in my vision. So....they have a thing called anti-curl. Not quite as chemically hard on your hair as a relaxer and still leaves a bit of curl unlike straightening. And no where near as expensive. Can't imagine $600 to straighten it and it still grows in curly!

When she started cutting she even asked if I was breathing....nope, not really, but I will soon.

I LOVE IT!

I don't know how many times I said, "thank you" today to staff and students that said that they liked my hair. It is the beginning of the end of the school year and I wanted to kick it off right. Phew!