Playing with Photos

I have been playing with our old family photos, trying to make copies of photos that I think need to be saved. Some are in bad shape and might not make it many more years. And of course we only have a few pictures of our relatives. My mom had very few that she kept from my side and Jeff has a few from his side. I took a few to the store and had them remade so that we can put them in frames so that they may be enjoyed more. I also have been looking for photos to put with our ancestry tree that I have been working on. I work on this a little bit every day and have gone quite far in some ways. Of course I also need to organize my own photos that I have stashed everywhere. I had started to organize them a few years ago but then stopped and let them get away from me again. Of course work just does not give me enough time to do everything I would like to get done. If only we could get paid for not going to work (HAHAHA).
There is just not enough hours in the day.

Spring Break

The kids have this week off for Spring Break. Not that we are doing anything really. Today they decorated the Easter Eggs that were cooked on Tuesday. And we did a little spring cleaning on the main floor living areas (still more to do). And we have been watching a few movies. Meijer's (where I work) put in a new Redbox and you can rent movies for $1 a night. Last night we watched Twilight, the night before was Hellboy II and Australia, and the night before that was Bedtime Stories and Slumdog Millionaire. This is very handy when you want to see all the top movies that won awards so you can decided if they gave the right movies the right awards.

Jeff has been looking into hiring a professional head hunter, I brought up this last week, because it has been so long since his last job and he has only gotten three calls to see his resume. We send his resume out at every opportunity and this time it went to a company that does business all over the world. This lead came out of an address I found online in Florida. So hopefully we are on the right track again.

It has been 1week and I am still having trouble writing this post. If you know anything about me then you know that I have very little patience with my family and their addictions. I do not want or need to be part of their downward spirals, nor do my children need to be around it. I hate all the conflict their addictions cause and so shortly after moving back to Michigan, with my mom back to drinking again, we had a fight and I cut off contact with her.

Last Sunday, March 29th, I found out that my mom had passed away on Dec 4th and because I had not stayed in contact, no one was able to find me. I am not sure how hard they really tried, they say they did. My old phone was turned off and I had moved a mile away from my house, but I was still in the same town and my new number is listed, my e-mail had not changed. And I can be googled too.

So now all I can say is even if you are so angry (as I was), you should never give up staying in touch with the people you love. I will never be able to know what she might have been thinking in her last days or having her call because she needed my help.

Let's Hear it for America

That was the name of this years Third Grade Musical Performance. All four third grade classes participated in an array of music to celebrate America. This always lets you know that you are on the down swing of the year now. Vacation is next week, the new marking period will begin when they get back to school.

Allard has another camp out this weekend. He will be earning his metalwork and leather works merit badges. He finished up his God and Country merit badge today, so I will now have to start sewing these badges on his new sash.

Lizzy has her badge sewing up to date for now, but even she has a few events coming up soon.

Evie had to leave the Potluck dinner right away to go to her skating lesson. From a previous post you may remember that she turned out to be a pretty good skater, so when I saw that they were going to start a new session of lessons this month I signed her up. Last week she was sick so she did not go, and since the course is only 8-10 weeks I wanted to make sure she went today, so Jeff took her and Lizzy and dropped them off while I cleaned up from the Potluck and then he came and picked me up and we went to watch Evie do her lesson. I took this during free time as when I tried other photos I got too much of a glare from the glass partition.

Heritage Potluck

Today we finished up our Heritage Badge for Girl Scouts by having a Potluck Dinner. Of course you plan these events according to your calendar of meeting times. But it was also spirit week at school so today was crazy hair and hat day. Hence the look of the girls. Evie had her hair done in purple with yellow bangs and orange, blue and red pigtails. Some of the girls had glitter too. After this picture we worked with clay for part of our Art 3d Badge and then had the parents bring in the dish that each girl prepared with them for the Potluck. Boy did we have a good selection to choose from. I had wanted to make a cookbook out of the recipes and had asked the parents to please send them too me, but some of them didn't. So at the dinner I again asked that they give them to me and explained why I wanted them, so hopefully they will get them to me.

Oliver 2009

Last night our Troop visited the local High School to view the production of Oliver. What a great performance by the cast and crew, and the sets were just so good. Most of the girls attended and this will finish out our theatre badge. Although, like every trip I have planned this year, it snowed again. I promised my mom's that we would take a trip without snow soon (hahaha).

We have also been working on cookie sales, we have 14 days left to sell, but we are done to about 28 boxes left and we still have two booths to go, however I am having trouble getting more cookies on the weekend so I may have to just call it done and see if anyone else wants these boxes. Plus, I am really getting tired of sitting at booths for two girls, I have only been working three or four days a week since Feb. 6th.

Next week we are going to have a Girl Scout movie night for the girls at our school, Allard has his drama performance, and Evie is Star of the Week.

Life with kids, I don't know what I will do with myself when I don't have kids to do for and with.