All done.

The ceremony was fantastic, the party was AMAZING.. and now I'm tired. LOL.  Sunday was father's day, so of course, I spent the day with my father. DH was out of town, so sadly we didn't get to play with him as well. The kids and I went to the L.A. Roadster show with my dad and his friend (from boy scouts, 50 years ago) "Uncle" Joe. The man is a saint and gave my girls shoulder rides most of the day!!!

Next Saturday is Tori's 8th birthday party.. a Pixie Pirate party. Now if only I'd remembered to mail the invites last week like I was supposed to do. Dammit. I hope we still have some guests. We've rented a Duffy (that's a boat) to take the girls on a harbor cruise before the party part. Which will consist of decorating their pirate hats, sword fighting, and a treasure hunt to the pinata.  If we've still time after all that I've got bubbles and sidewalk chalk. :o)

At least the house is still clean from my party. So I don't have MAJOR cleaning to do for this party. :o)

 

It begins

I'm running for school board, so I'm attending tonights meeting to start getting a better hands on feel for what are the hot topics are for the board members, I know what they are for the teachers and other staff.  I'm also giving a letter requesting endorsement of my candidacy to two organizations that will be represented tonight.

In other news, Beth started phase II of  orthodontia (braces) she's got brackets on bottom as well as top now. she goes next week for spacers to put the wire-holding peices on her molars. And she has to have 4 teeth pulled, as does Tori, whom I took a couple months ago.... I'm calling tomorrow to see if I can get both girls in for the extractions on the same day.  My poor babies. What a way to start summer have teeth pulled and get braces.

Tomorrow is Drew's last day of speech therapy for the school year, I'm going to stop tonight and pick up a gift card for a bookstore for the speech "teacher" she's done an amazing job working with Drew!!! I'm very very happy with how far he has come!!!

Ok.. time to serve dinner.

 

OHMYGOD...oh my god.. oh... oh..

I'm DONE!!!!!!!!!!!! My final, final exam was monday. I'm done.. I've finished my degree!!!!!!!!  I'm done I'm done I'm done. I'm only a little excited.  Ok.. I'm floating.. and it's only going to increase with the approaching ceremony and party!!! :oD

Now someone come play with my son, who is a doll, and a love, and is un-doing all the cleaning I've done. Sigh~

 

I'm DONE!!!!!!!! ;o)

Two yays and a two grrrrsss

Katie received an award at school today. Teachers' choice award for Excellence in story writing. :o)  I ditched school so I could attend the assembly and take the appropriately obnoxious number of pictures of the kid. :o)

Then I pick the kids up after school to discover that Victoria received her white ribbon for reading... um, WHY did her teacher not let me know??? I could have easily made my schedule to include both assembies. GRRR. Victoria has worked rather hard to get this ribbon, she had to read 750 pages throughout the year, while that's not much to some, when you've got a kid who spent the first 1/2 of the year not able to read "go dog go" pull off 750 pages and be READING books, YAY!!!

The second Grrr, is that when I picked up Beth she informed me that she had no lunch today. Due to some idiot student pulling the fire alarm. They had to evacuate the building, reset the alarm, and then restart the food-line. Beth got to the half way point to the door when they closed the line, out of food. WTF!? I've written an email to the prinicipal. Hopefully I'll get a satisfactory response. In the meantime I fed my kid a double meat / cheese sandwhich and then she ate the leftover 1/2 of my moms' cheeseburger from lunch, and her cookie for snack. I don't think she'll starve to death.

Other than that, my life is boring..it's all about cleaning, and a little studying for school.  BUT, I must tell T. that your youngest must have mind-linked with my youngest, as Drew took ALL the books out of the bookshelf in my living room as well. LOL.. took us 30mins. to get them all back, but we had him help. hehe

Well...

It is MY blog.. so deal with me. I got my cap and gown today!!!! Between that and the cards coming in congratulating me, I'm getting really excited.  It's very surreal.. I keep thinking I've somehow snuck through, and they'll catch me right at the end, and say oh wait, no.. you didn't do ___.  And they'll not let me graduate. Reality is I've already done a final check with my counselor and there isn't anything left but to finish the current class, which I will do next Monday when I take the final exam. :o)

Last night was a blast, we saw our friend play at the pub, he was celebrating a promotion to Sargeant II in the LAPD, Very cool!!!  Got to see several friends we'd not seen in a while, and visit with them!!! Something we don't get to do enough of.

Ok.. back to reality, I have to go find a room, or two, as getting this house ready for my party is a must do.

 

The countdown begins..

So as not to totally bore ya'll to tears, I won't do it daily.. but right now I have.. 13 days until I graduate!!!!! nope I'm not excited, not me, not one bit. (HA!!!)

the weekend has been fun, and lazy, which is nice.  Friday we went out. yesterday, we melted here. Today was church, and tonight Tim and I are going to the pub to celebrate a friend's promotion to Sargeant II in the police force. :o)  One of my dear friends had her baby last night, and I've gotten all the color-laundry washed. it's neither folded nor put away. But it's washed!!! The rest will happen in a bit. I only have one load of whites, and I'm caught up! YAY!!!!  Then I can focus more on getting the clutter out of here!!! Time to get really serious about getting this place spruced up. So off I go. hehe.

 

Hot enough??

according to AOL's welcome screen it's 81* in my town... it's Hot that's all I know. With no A/C in our house it's hotter than I'd like. We do have a lovely breeze, and the fans are on.. but I'm still too warm. whine whine.

So last night DH and I headed to a concert. WAY fun, we saw Sligo Rags, the Merry Wives of Windsor, and The Fenians. Much dancing was done by my friend C. and I.. enough that my feet hurt today.

We're having a quiet, at home day. We don't have many of these. So I'm enjoying this one fully. :oD

Laundry, light cleaning, and bbq for dinner.