It’s been crazy around here the past two weeks. Here’s a recap of our life lately.
We pulled Karson out of Young Fives and moved him to Kindergarten at Max and Savannah’s school. Now we have both the boys in Kindergarten right next door to each other. Anyway, he’s happy and we are happy and it solved our day care issue with him, since it’s all day K. Now we only have to pay for Jasmin…it cuts our childcare costs in half.
Kindergarten is going better. The first day was awful, but each day it gets easier. I’m figuring stuff out and enjoying it more. The afternoon goes by so fast, it’s crazy. One thing about half day kindergarten…I don’t know how you are supposed to fit everything in! I really like my class. They are a good group of kids. We have fun, and I think maybe most of them love me. One little boy gives me a hug and tells me he loves me everyday. So cute!
Here’s a picture of my class and their flags that they made last week. 
Our camper is still sitting in our driveway after four weeks! I have barely touched it except to get things we needed out. Though tonight, I did clean out the refrigerator because we unplugged it for a while this afternoon.
I totally forgot until Thursday that today is Karson’s birthday. What kind of mom forgets to plan a party for their kid’s 5th birthday!? I feel terrible. It is going to be very hard to have a party now anytime close to his birthday because our family has so much going on this week. Luckily he doesn’t really care that much. I was going to plan a party at Fun For all Kids. We did Max’s party there and it was so easy. But he just wants it at home. Last year we had a big party with an army theme, so I guess this year would be his year for just a family party anyway. I think we are kind of planning for Thursday night.
Tuesday is Penny’s memorial service. I am kind of looking forward to it, but then kind of anxious to get past it. It’s been kind of strange having so much time pass between her death and her memorial service. Sam has been working on putting together a slideshow of her, but we wish we had more pictures of her…we don’t even have enough for a whole song. That was the thing about Penny. She was always helping behind the scenes, serving people and ministering to them…it seems that she avoided the camera at most of our family celebrations because of that.
This weekend we took Pirate Island out to flavor fruit farms. My nephew Josiah wanted it for his birthday and so we had the party out there. Because we came out there for free, Meckley’s gave us all the perks of a party…free hayride, doughnuts and cider, walk through the corn maze and free tickets for the inflatable. The kids had a blast and our shows were really fun. It was a beautiful day and the kids were all great. We were tired though and Sam is sick this weekend, so it was a lot more work for me tearing down. We pulled out right as Laura the elephant was pulling in to our spot. Perfect timing.
I’m writing this at 2 in the morning. When we got home I took the kids upstairs and gave them all baths/showers…but trying to get them in bed was challenging. You know how kids love to stall…and I just had no patience…so I came down and asked Sam to finish putting them to bed and Jaz and I layed on the couch with a bottle and fell asleep for a few hours. So now I am wide awake. I put the roast in the crockpot and got it cooking for lunch and did some laundry, wrote some emails and updated my school’s website. Now I think I am ready to go back to sleep. I don’t know if we’ll go to church tomorrow…it’s always weird going without Sam. He’s staying home and hoping to get some extra rest.
