School ALMOST out for the summer!

Wow, the last month has been a bit of a blur! Lots of fun things going on, but I am getting end of year burnout! The kids are, too - possibly more than me:-/. Brian replaced a few light fixtures which is exciting - no more ugly 80's chandeliers for us! Lynsey had her piano recital and did so well! She sang her song so well, I am so impressed by her ability to perform in pressure situations! There were some notes that she struggled with in all her practice sessions and she got them in the recital, so great! On Memorial Day we had a picnic at the park with some friends, nothing fancy. I went on Nathan's zoo field trip and had a nice time, I wonder if this could possibly be my last zoo field trip? Brian has been busy in the yard fixing the sprinklers, finally they are all working properly! This is an exciting thing, for us anyway:-). The weekend before this last one was a busy one - we had the school carnival on Friday (it rained all evening but Nathan and Lynsey still had fun!), Lynsey's gymnastics performance on Saturday, and then her moving up ceremony for Girl Scouts on Sunday. She is a Cadet now! This past weekend was a bit more low key, we did have a barbeque here on Friday night with friends that was a lot of fun, but other than that we took it easy. Very relaxed Fathers Day for Brian! I did sprain my ankle running on Saturday which has been a major annoyance, it's better today in that I can sort of walk normally on it, but I will be modifying my workouts for the next week for sure. What a pain, but not the worst thing in the world I suppose.

Thursday is the last day of school, we are almost there! Wednesday we have Adam's class party (potluck of course, last one! I can make it!) and Nathan's class trip to the park down the street, and then Lynsey's 5th grade promotion on Thursday morning. And then summer begins! I know I will lament the kids being home (and arguing with each other) all day long soon enough, but for now I will look forward to a more relaxed schedule with no more "events". Elementary school is no joke, people! Apparently less is expected of parents in middle school so we'll see how that goes.

One and a half weeks until our big road trip to Alberta! I hope we're ready! Lots of things packed into the 10 days we are gone, but it's always a highlight for the kids (and of course Brian and I always have fun, too:-)). I can't believe it's June already, I am happy for the kids that they get a nice break from school. This is the first year that I have felt from Adam that he really needs a break from school. His repetitiveness has been so bad lately, I know he is ready to just chill for a while. His home program goes all summer but they are great with modifying to give him lots of play time if he needs it. Honestly there isn't much point in trying to force him to work, I don't even know how you would go about doing that.

Bring on the sunshine and lazy days! Summer is here!

Beautiful May days

The last few weeks have been a steady stream of kids activities, some date nights, Teacher Appreciation Week (3 lists plus some teacher lunches! I did so well this year, only forgot gift card day for Nathan's class, oops). Brian was gone in Menlo Park from Monday to Thursday of that week, so I am extra proud of how well I did on my own, ha! We have done so much yard work, enjoying the lovely weather outside. We finally finished off that enormous pile of mulch, what an accomplishment! Mother's Day was a lovely day! Got breakfast in the morning and loved all the kids' gifts. The kids and I planted our little vegetable garden, so we'll see what comes up! Not sure it's in the best place right beside the deck but it was the only option so we'll hope for the best. Our friends, the Daveys, came over in the afternoon and we ordered some take out Vietnamese food for dinner. 

Oh some news for me is that I got glasses again, sigh. It's unclear whether or not my eyesight has gotten worse since Lasik 3 years ago, I kind of think not, I just think I got used to not seeing perfectly after the original healing period. The glasses are so helpful when I'm in low light areas, love them for watching TV and driving in the dark. At least they are only -0.75 and -0.25 so I could get whatever frames I wanted! The things you don't take for granted when you used to be pretty much blind!

Hard to believe it's almost June, we are in the home stretch at school! I'm being bombarded with field trip forms and potlucks and year end parties are just around the corner, I can make it! Lynsey has a piano recital on Sunday and a gymnastics "performance" on June 9th. She has so much going on in her life, so weird how as a parent your life becomes about what the kids have in their lives - so what does that mean about what you actually have in your own life?? Haha! We have a lot of things to look forward to this summer so it's all good, looking forward to another change in routine. 

Let the summer begin!

May - I love the beginning of warm sunny days, but feeling the exhaustion of the end of the school year! The rest of April was pretty good, not too eventful. The last week or so has been pretty busy, we got a huge load of mulch last Friday and I've been slowly but surely working my way through the front and back yard spreading it all. The worst part of it is that we were told we should put cardboard down first as a weed blocker, and finding such huge volumes of cardboard has been quite a challenge! I've been scavenging on neighborhood Facebook groups, friends, stores - Costco turned out to be quite a score because of the big square pieces of cardboard that separate the layers on their pallets. The problem is they never have a bunch all at once so I have to keep going back . . . and ask again . . . I think I may have scavenged enough today to hopefully finish off the yard. There is still quite a pile of mulch out there, but the end is in sight! Looking forward to just enjoying the fruits of my labor! Brian has been working in the ravine, so while he hasn't done a whole lot with this mulch project, he has been busy doing other stuff;-).

I went with Lynsey's class on a field trip to the state capital building in Olympia this past Tuesday. It was a lot of fun! I learned a lot, I think I was more interested than most of the fifth graders:-D. It was nice for Lynsey that I came along, I think she sees the end of her field trip days coming and she wanted me to be able to come and enjoy this one with her.

Not much else to report from the Kroeker house at this point. Adam is doing pretty well, he was a bit sick this week so he's been a bit irritable. Lots of repetition. He did have to stay home on Monday because he threw up in the morning. It was a bit funny actually, clearly throwing up made him feel a ton better, so when he heard that he didn't have to go to school, he was in the best mood for the rest of the day! I guess in some ways he is typical after all:-).