Month: April 2019

PTA Brag

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If you know me at all, you know I volunteer.  A lot.  Often a broad PTA umbrella, and a few new things I did this year got written up and submitted by our PTA president to the State PTA for consideration.  I was really impressed with the application Diana put together, and wished my projects had really been that awesome!  Based on that application, both projects won gold at State, and I got the reward of putting together display boards to bring to the State Convention (which I wasn’t going to, partly because I was running a math table at the PTA-run STEM fair at the elementary school that first night).  What I’m actually proud of is that I implemented someone else’s idea to add a QR code to the display so people could look at and download materials to do the project themselves.  Isn’t that cool?!?


Yep, that and $5 gets me a 16 oz hot chai and a few quarters for the gumball machine.

5th Grade Camp

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I love that our district has a 2 night camp for all 5th graders in the district.  Kyla went last year, of course, and when it was Piper’s turn to go this year, she asked if I could go along, too.  

So Wesley went to Daddy Camp and I got on the bus with Piper and 60 other kids and chaperones the morning after Easter.  A friend and I chaperoned 8 girls, and to distinguish our girls from all the others running around (we were one of three schools attending together), we donned our Rosie the Riveter headbands.


We had a ton of fun learning archery, climbing the rockwall, catching a frog (when we were supposed to be carrying a log), and eating s’mores. 

It was not the most restful half-week I’ve ever had, but I’ll sign up again when Wesley is a 5th grader!

Eggsellent

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I love these kids!
We did our annual egg hunt and Easter dinner–smaller and earlier than usual, as I was going to 5th grade camp with Piper the next morning.  
Since only Ruby is small enough that we care about her feelings, The Moms had a delightful time of hiding the eggs.  Rochelle got the Most Devious Award after she tossed a clover-green egg into….clover.  Yep, that egg was the last to be found.  
Also in the egg hunt were 2 confetti eggs each.  The 3 oldest demonstrate how to deploy said eggs.  Evelyn’s hair was a popular target.

After dinner, the kids practiced their circus acts on the trampoline.  The adults watched the show with rapt attention.



We were dazzled by the high quality of all the acts.

Happy Easter, Jesus!  We survived another Resurrection.  

Evil Easer Bunny

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Last year, there were tears.  Not mine, of course. But to buy us more sleeping time, I hid the kids’ baskets as well as I could downstairs.  The extra sleep plan may have backfired.

This year, hoping my kids were smarter and more resilient (so that I had to be neither), I did the same thing. First, they woke to this:


Later, I added the PS No Crying!!

I buried each of the bunnies under as much other crap as I could, as the pictures show.

And then, once they found the bunny, they had to figure out the clue to find the rest of the loot.  “There’s no cooler kid than Kyla” didn’t work out for me, as she had looked in the cooler before she  had found her bunny.  Wesley’s “I hope this doesn’t leave any scars” befuddled them all for a long time, and I don’t know who finally figured out that I hadn’t underlined “scars” but “car”.  Wesley also found Piper’s on top of the freezer before she found her bunny in a box under a box in the office.  However, the big winner that morning? (Clearly not Jesus’s resurrection, at least before 9am).  Teamwork.  Kids teamed up against Evil Easter Bunny and won the day!