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Mid-Week Musing

I was on such a blogging roll and then the chaos of spring/summer hit.  Ha!  I’m still loading pictures to my little corner of the internet with a few little notes to jog my memory for when I finally get to sit down and write.  One day I’ll get around to finally pushing that “publish” button.

I’m thinking that it might help if I do a Mid Week Musing thing every now and then to catch everyone up and dump some iphone pictures, but I’m not making any promises.  The thing is, we’re in the last 2.5 weeks of school, and I have hardly document this monumental year.  Ugh!  I don’t want Christmas to roll around before I realize that so many memories went uncelebrated in this memory book of mine!

We’re trying to keep it low-key this week before the craziness of the Merry Month of May takes its toll.  We only have a few more days of school before we celebrate kindergarten graduation, Colby’s graduation, Memorial Day, and finally pack our bags for Disney World.  Woohoo!



Speaking of Disney, these showed up on our porch this week!  The kids were so excited.  If it wasn’t already exciting enough, this just sealed the deal.  We are officially going to Disney in 25 days, but who’s counting?


In other news, this cutie graduates in 12 days! A few nights ago, we were talking about how soon kindergarten will be over, and Eli said, “I’m about to be in first grade.  Mom, we have worked so hard for this.”  Haha!  I love his enthusiasm.

Also, note how proud he is of that post-bath mohawk!


I’m going to try to be a more consistent blogger, but if I go missing again, I am probably at a school function, on the ball field, planning for Disney or sitting on my front porch watching the littles play.  I started working on the outside area this week, so consider this your sneak peak!





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