The Mad Dash to the Finish Line

Tomorrow is June 1st.
In our house, it's a very exciting yet very tiring time of the year.
In just 2 sleeps, Lucky will turn 5 years old! (he is SOOO excited! Me, not so much! Check out this pic of him at age 3!) AND it means two weeks of school left. We also have a trip to Cedar Point on Friday, along with Lucky's birthday party on Saturday. The next week is dance recital practices and the recital, along with GIZZARDFEST. I remember back in April when I made grand plans to start packing up my room (which was never unpacked due to all the turmoil at school.) Yeah, I've got 5 or so tubs packed, but SO much more to do! Now, life would not be fun or Gorbetastic if there wasn't a challenge to packing. The challenges are:
1. I have NO clue what I'll be teaching next year. Worse case scenario : 5th graders. Sorry 5th graders, I just don't have that much patience.
2. I have JURY DUTY. Seriously. No really. TOTALLY not cool. How fun to make sub plans for the LAST week of school. UGH. Maybe I can do my report cards while waiting?

At least I have a super cute and funny family.
Some recent hilarious words that were heard:

"Aw nuts, right in the guts!" (Lucky coined this phrase while playing war.)
"Mom, will the kindergarten teachers like a funny kid?" Lucky, a bit nervous about starting school next fall.

Should be a frostingtastic week in our house. Hurray for cake!!

WOW, that was a long time!!

So I'm 9 months behind in blogging..geesh, thanks a LOT facebook!
It's been pretty tumultuous (even this 8th grade spelling champ may mess that one up!)year. ..
To say the LEAST..

Work has been insane..too many moves in the district for me and not for the good. With their track record, I'm betting I'll be packing and moving to yet ANOTHER school for next fall.
So far I've experienced these new teaching jobs:
K-10 art teacher for parochial schools
3rd/4th grade split teacher
2nd grade teacher for the lowest kids in the grade.
Pod teaching, which IMO is NOT a good thing....

Gotta say though, for all the crap I've been through, I have a SUPER nice class.

It's official, I have a daughter that is two syllables old!!

Yup, Emma made it to the ripe age of SEV-EN.
She had a fantastic bday (and shared it nicely with her daddy who turned 40!). She had SUCH a great day (aka cake/cupcakes /dinners out) that her belly hurt to much to finish bday cake at night!LOL!
Emma had a few friends over for a Rock and Roll party. I really think I have a budding rock star. She TOTALLY knows how to work the crowd AND the microphone!!

The final countdown!!!!!!!!!!!!

Isn't that a survivor song?? It was playing in my head as I typed that!
Sooooooooo...just about 2 days until:
Emma hits 7!! YIKES!
Dave turns 40! Holy crap!!!
Wow...seriously ..wow!
Oh and 3 days til the final Satin Jones show at the Small Planet in East lansing, you SHOULD be there for Dave!!!

So here's one more example of why I'll be getting phone calls from Pville schools in about 15 mths:

Lucky: Hey Mommy, when I'm all grown up, you can call me a different name!
Me: Oh yeah, Like mr. G?
Lucky: Well, you can still call me Lucky or Lukey, cause I'll still be cute!



WOW...just wow..! That kid is a crack up. Not to mention his random:
Hey Mommy, I gotta tell you something:
I REALLY LOVE YOU!

(totally unprompted)
Let me just say: GIRLS of Class of 2023 at Pville, be prepared, he's gonna work it good!!!!!!!!!!

Rock and Roll!!

Emma's 7th bday is just SEVEN days away!
So in honor of her bday, I made bday invites ala my style, which includes pics of the bday girl!

On the back we taped a little version of "we rock" from camp rock inviting kids to her bday party. I think it was pretty good, if I say so myself!!:)

Should be an INTERESTING bday party to say the least, Emma wants everyone to dance and sing and have others judge them...yeah.....I see possible tears!!

ON the Lucky front:
1. He cut some hair while cutting out Max and Ruby dollars in his room ,unbeknownst (is that a word?) to me!

2. He told me today he's not OLD, he's new, and wanted to know if Emma was OLD. I wonder what that makes ME?

3. He actually got somewhere near a giraffe this week, pretty proud of that one.

4. He's getting a bit courageous on breaking rules, time for the crackdown!

Baby it's hot outside....

Whew..it was sweltering this week but I still managed to take the kids to a park AND help coach Emmie's baseball (coach pitch, though I didn't pitch!) team!
I love the pictures I put on today, well the black and white one mostly. It was from about a week ago, we had went to the same playground (Delta mills) that we went to this week and it was SUPER hot and

sweaty that day too!

Ahhh...summertime....

Yup,

On vacation. Can ya tell?

Came home from the movies to two packages:

Some new sandals (thanks http://www.landsend.com/). and some new sea salt scrub from http://www.arbonne.com/ . I love this scrub and so do my feet! After reviewing all the close ups, it's apparent my feet need a trip to douglas j salon for a lovely pedicure!

Ahhh..summer break! One of the biggest benefits of being a teacher!

So what else is

new around here?

Well...we've got a bit of an infestation....

Did you see how there's a gnick on a stick? And Gneil the keeper of the birds? how about that sneaky gnome lazily hiding? Or the hardworking wheelbarrow one? Yes, there's the two finding anything to do but work, or is it a great father son learning moment?..They're everywhere! Apparently they are reproducing or something.....

It's a bit gnarly huh?

And finally,
I have to share a battle that goes on between Lucky and his daddy. Well, there's TWO battles, the first is how the pillows are arranged on the couch and chair. We have 3 brown pillows and 2 red patterned pillows, they each prefer it a different way. So here's the other battle. The solar house number. Lucky likes his numbers close together, daddy, spread apart....Guess who's winning???