The Next to the Last Week of School

This has been one of those uneventful type weeks where you think back on it and it seems like nothing at all has happened. Hehehe. Over the weekend Rusty met with some guys about getting a new band going. Well, not really a new one, but more like continuing one that was started a couple of years ago that kinda got put on the backburner with everyone doing other musical projects. Sunday he went to help Keith move everything out of the shop that he’s closing, and I just took the day to CHILL and hang around the house. I went to visit with Mom for Mother’s Day, and called Johnnie on the phone. Rusty called his stepmother. Rusty and the kids bought me an outfit for Mother’s Day, and took me to eat at the breakfast bar at Isle of Capri Sunday morning. Once again we did not get the spreading of the ashes done still. It was really a nice kind of uneventful weekend. Tyler went to church Sunday with his friend, and later in the week we signed him up to go on the youth trip to Panama City this summer.
Monday night was a baseball game for Tanner, and they won! Woohoo! First game they really and truly won! He was very happy!
I finished up the last of my extremely stressful events on Tuesday, performing the Kindergarten Musical Program - 3 times. Twice that morning, and once that night at the PTO meeting. Also Tuesday night, we tried to fix a stopped up sink and ended up with a mess on our hands hehehe. We used the same stuff that we used to unstop the washing machine drain pipe. It worked wonderfully on that drain pipe. But our bathroom sink was not so easy. We poured the stuff in, let it sit, still was stopped up. We sat around trying to decide what we’d try next, and in the meantime the stuff got REALLY stinky. So Rusty had to undo all the piping from the sink and dig into the wall pipe to clear the drain out. It was pretty gross, with the smell of the chemicals on top of it too. Anyway, the sink finally got unstopped. Dale stopped by for a visit the same night.
On Wednesday I made myself a checklist of everything I have to do before the last day of school, and went straight to work on getting them done! There are now 4 more official days of school, plus one work day with no kids.
Thursday I took Tyler to the doctor to ease my mind about him. He’s had some yellowish color to his eyes, and some weakness and headaches, among other things. The doctor agreed that his eyes were yellowish and she did some blood test stuff. Testing for liver function and various hepatitis's. The doctor called this afternoon and said the hepatitis tests were all negative but that she is not going to rule it out just yet. Said his liver enzymes were fine which is good. But that he does indeed have an elevated bilirubin level which is causing the jaundice. She said it could just be from having a particular stomach virus weeks ago - there are certain ones that do this. We have to go back in a week for another test to see if the levels are going down, or hopefully not up. Anyway, didn't do much to ease my mind - I'm still worried. Thursday evening I stayed up half the night helping (or MAKING) Tyler study for his science semester exam. Let's all cross our fingers that he passes science!
We are totally looking forward to summer trips, especially me. We’re going to visit Dad and Johnnie Memorial Day weekend. Then we’re going to stay at the Isle of Capri a couple of days for our anniversary. Then in late June we’re going to the lakehouse, if I can wait til the end of June. I’m so used to going to the lake asap.
Today is a TGIF kinda Friday, and we're trying to decide right now what we want to cook on the grill this weekend. And once again, it's grass mowing time. And no rain to use for an excuse.
It's been such an uneventful week that I didn't even take any photos this week. Shame on me! Hopefully we'll have many photos next week, of all of us celebrating joyfully that school is out.

May continued....

Last weekend was another good one. We went to the Cinco de Mayo thing, but our friend's band did not play because the weather was supposed to get bad. It did rain, but we did manage to get the grass mowed Saturday first thank goodness. We got up Saturday morning and went to the Shoney's breakfast bar, all except for Tyler who wanted to keep sleeping. A friend of ours called that afternoon to tell me about a big sale at one of the outlet mall stores, so we all headed out to the outlet mall. Rusty found a book called "Quitting Smoking for Dummies" and I found one called "Gardening for Dummies". I guess we'll see if the books do any good. Sunday I went with Rusty to work the machines at the casino, and we sneaked in a breakfast bar from the Isle. Rusty hardly knows what to do with time on his hands now. Sunday afternoon he started out just changing the oil in his car. Then he realized he had a nail in a tire, so he fixed the nail problem and decided to rotate his tires while he was at it. He had a good helper, named Tanner. I told him my tires needed rotating too, so he went and rotated mine also. Then he made Tyler get up and wash and vaccuum his car. I asked Tyler to pose for a picture - this is what I got. Guess that'll teach me to be more specific when I ask him to pose!

This week at school has been the week I have dreaded ALL YEAR LONG. I worried myself to death over it all weekend. I mean I have DREADED IT!!! This is the week that I had to take the entire 6th grade on stage every single morning to rehearse a program. Then Monday morning comes, and our first rehearsal was terrific. They were nice to me! They were pleasant, positive, and a joy to deal with. I would have never believed it. So even though the week ended up being just as much work as I expected, it turned out to be work that I did not mind doing. I like it when someone besides me is enjoying what we are doing.

Wednesday I had a conference with Tyler's science teacher again. I was concerned he was doing so badly in science that he might actually fail it. She said it's not impossible for him to pass. If he does well on the 9 weeks test he should pass no problem. I was worried he would fail it and have to go to summer school, or that Rusty would not let me send him to summer school and he'd have to be in 8th grade again. So I guess I just have to force him to study science every night for the rest of the year - which, by the way, is only 2 more weeks woohoo!!!!!!!!!

Thursday I took half a day off for Dr.'s appt. and Tanner's eye doctor appt. And I flat needed the break from school for that little bit also. As it turns out, Tanner is near-sighted just like Rusty and Tyler. We got glasses for him, but I'm not fooling with contacts for him just yet. He was surprised at how well he can see now with glasses.

Now that Friday is here I'm relieved! End of a long week! But I can definately rest with peace of mind this weekend as I have two "Navy Seals" guarding my home......

1st week of May

We reluctantly tried a new restaurant last weekend - Billy's Italian Restaurant. We were glad we did though, it was great. We also purchased the grill I spoke of. Rusty says it's not a grill, it's a GRRRRIIIILL! We cooked out last Saturday even though there was a huge storm all day long. We cooked out under the garage hehehe. During the storm, the tree that has been kinda dangling over our fence since Katrina came on down. Yippee.

Also last Saturday I had to take Tyler for his physical he needs for playing football next year. We were supposed to go at 8 am. The rain made it hard to get up, so we didn't get there until 9:15 - and we ended up in line with ALL of the Warren Central (the local rival school) athletes grades 8-12. At one point, the kid that he had the fight with on the football field last fall came near where we were, and he and Tyler did exchange glares for a few minutes there - I crossed my fingers that that's all they would do, and it was. (Whew!) About 30 minutes into our hour long wait, some kid about 5 people ahead of us in line started letting all his friends skip. About a dozen of them, one by one. I was FUMING. I went and got one of their coaches and pointed out every kid that had skipped. He sent them all to the back of the line, including the one that was letting them skip. Tyler said, "Mom! I've never seen you go off like that! You know they're gonna be waiting for us in the parking lot...." Well, no one waited for us in the parking lot. Thank goodness hehehe.
Anyway, the weekend ended up just as relaxing as I had hoped for. Just a weekend at home. Took the kids to the library, did a little clothes shopping. Tanner twisted his foot on a guitar case and now has had a limp off and on all week. My grass never got mowed, and won't get mowed this weekend either (rain). Nothing exciting.
It was State Test week this week, so was a long week. Tuesday night Tanner had a baseball game. It was one of those "3 Stooges" kind of games. We had 4 guys that didn't show up, 3 of which were our first baseman, pitcher, and short stop. So all the kids were playing in positions they had never been in before. So practically every play was, well, like a 3 Stooges movie! Here is a picture of Tanner playing catcher for the first time. We had a game on Thursday also, against the best team in the age group. They have been stomping most everybody. We did really good against them and had hopes of winning, but the rain came and they called the game.
It’s supposed to storm again this whole weekend, so I’m looking forward to another restful weekend. Rusty and I are going to the Cinco de Mayo celebration at El Sombrero’s tonight, and the kids are gonna visit with Mamaw and Papaw.
Next week is going to be a doozy. I have 2 musical programs to rehearse all week, with both of my 2 least favorite age groups: Kindergarten and 6th graders. Wish me luck, and if I survive it, I'll post another update next Friday!