Progress

My blog posts have seriously declined over the past few months, and I do believe it's directly related to my Facebook activity. It's easy to just post a few sentences with a picture on Facebook, and I kind of forget about blogging. But since Will has the recliner and Nick is stretched out on the couch, I'll stay here at the table with the laptop and blog so I don't disturb him! I'm such a nice mom.

I posted most of these pictures on Facebook but I like them so I'll share them here too.

We still have our family Sunday dinner each week, and it is always fun to watch Eric play with Zeek.

Will says Zeek thinks Eric is his litter mate.



Will tore out our small deck awhile back and is consructing a paver patio. It is a lot of work but he is making great progress. Our friend Dave Davies was thinking about making one so he came over to help several times this week. His wife came along on Friday and we enjoyed pizza (with the employee discount due to Nick working at the pizza place!) after they quit for the evening. I asked how his parents were doing and got to hear some interesting and hilarious stories about the older generation in his family. He could write a book! Or maybe I'll steal some of the stories and write the book!


Here's how it looked a the end of the day. I'm liking it! Will offered to let me pound in a few bricks "just so you can say you did it". Hah. I'm not falling for that old trick. I'd much rather say I didn't have to lay even one of those bricks!

What will it look like next weekend? Stay tuned!

School's In!

The days are long and busy and fly by unbelievably fast. The sun is going down shortly after 7 PM so I have to hurry to have dinner and take my sunset view walk. They have been gorgeous! I was so enthralled looking at the sky last night I nearly stepped on a snake, but my usual speedy yet graceful footwork kept me safe, and no one was around to hear my shriek.

School started nearly two weeks ago, and after last year's cuts we found ourselves 40 students over our projected number. A student enrollment of 685 means very large class sizes. So we were granted an additional teacher on Friday. That of course led to major numbers of schedule changes this week...and a few very unhappy people.

The really strange thing is that parents seem to be more upset about it than kids. "She's always wanted to be in Yearbook. How dare you take it away and put her in an elective she will not enjoy?" "My child does not want to be in Home Ec. Is she really going to have to waste 18 weeks learning about cooking? I see no value in that whatsoever." Really! I tell them that we cannot do any more schedule changes, and when they get obnoxious and insistent, I get to turn them over to administrators! They are definitely earning their pay!

But I was pleasantly surprised that most people have been very nice about it. Things are going really well.

I don't usually go to staff meetings but I attended the one Monday because I had some things I needed to share, and it was such a beautiful thing. People were complimenting administrators and each other, and by the time I finally got up, I had to tell them I had no idea staff meetings were such a love fest! I will definitely try to attend from now on because it was such an uplifting experience! I'm positive all staff meetings are like that one!

Then it's fun to come home and see the progress Will makes each day on the big paver patio project. He needs to post some pictures on his blog since I'm not doing so much of it now.