The approach of summer

Coming up to summer is both a relief and like running the end of a marathon. With school ending we are so busy getting projects wrapped up and such. Six more days of school! Yippee!

My oldest son had to memorize a poem for school and present it before all the parents. He HATES getting up in front of people. He actually won't get baptized in church even though he's made a decision for Christ because he doesn't want to be in front of everyone. I keep telling him, that's kind of the point! Anyway, he did awesome at his poetry night. I believe he had the longest poem to memorize. Even other parents told us how good he did because of the length of his poem. He must have felt encouraged, because then he decided he wanted to to be in a play. We'll see how that goes. He has a part in a Bullying play being put on by the community theater in the next couple of weeks. Maybe baptism will be next on the list??

My second son has been working on a country report for a number of weeks. His group was assigned to study Canada. He also had to do a project at home about his country to be presented at the multi-cultural fair. He did a poster about hockey in Canada. He did a great job and was very proud of the final product. This past Wednesday was the main event. I think 10 - 12 countries were represented by both classes. They had food from each culture too. My son was concerned about not having food at their table, so I was thinking, well Canadians eat the same stuff we do? Then I remembered Canadian Bacon, so that's what he brought. Then I thought it would be cute to get Canada Dry too, so I did :-)

Of course, none of these projects can be truly completed without parent intervention, so we all stayed busy until it was all done.

My husband has been out of town all week going to see his twin brother graduate from Basic Training or Boot camp... whatever the correct thing to say is. He is on his way home as I type and it will be so nice to have him back with us. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be a single parent to 5 kids. That's all I have to say about that!

So as we go into Memorial Day weekend, I am looking forward to some much needed rest!! Hope you all enjoy your holiday weekend as well!!!