Life in a blur

Wow, I can't believe that once again I have lost a month of my life. I turn around and it's gone, school is over and summer is upon us. It's been crazy. I finished up my performance of Peter Pan, which was a big success. The kids did great as always. We had a sold out house all four nights - in fact the last night sold out within five minutes of the doors being open. It was crazy, but then what do you expect when you have 147 kids performing. It was a good challenge for me to work with that many kids, made me think a little more. I did have some wonderul help that I couldn't have done it without - even though they do look a little wild in their animal costumes, they were the hit of the show when they joined the "Bunny Hop" the last night. School finished for me and I made it through two computer classes. It was fun, yet a little overwhelming to keep up with two classes. I did remember that I enjoy learning, and the enjoy the challenge that comes with getting good grades. We decided to raise chickens for eggs, which has been a challenge in itself. We built - well, LaMont and the boys built a chicken coop - and we currently have 15 chickens of three different ages living in it. I have learned alot, and it has been a lot of work to raise them from babies, but we have only lost 2, and the rest are growing big. We will have to get rid of the roosters since we are in city limits, but should have a good number of hens to lay us some eggs. We got our garden planted and the first zuccinni are almost big enough to pick - maybe tomorrow. We also had Grandma here to visit for a week, which is always nice. It is great to be able to spend time with her, and to make memories for my kids. My kids were busy with performancs and promotions this month. We had a elementary school performance, a vocal recital - Di's very first, and she did wonderful, a violin recital - Di had a solo and did wonderful on that, too, a school play that she starred in also, and a gymnastics performance for my youngest. I had two children get perfect attendance awards, and two get Citzinship awards for the Middle School. Then I had two kids promoted from Middle School, which in itself was a big drama, but it is over now, and I am proud of them both for making it through Middle School and for handling the situation in a positive way. We are now ready for summer - I'm not sure I'm ready, but here it is anyway, and it's starting off with some beautiful rainy weather.