A Stolen Pencil Sharpener

Kacy came home from school one day and had a fantastic story. A boy in her class had something to her when they were in line leaving art class. She didn't hear him, but didn't really care about what he said, so she was like "Yeah, okay." Then, they left class, and he was like, "Kacy, here is the pencil sharpener I stole for you." She was like, "What?!?!" I guess he had asked her if she wanted one of the teacher's pencil sharpeners, and that is when she had responded "Yeah, okay." She was mortified that he stole this tiny little pencil sharpener for her! I told her that it should be a life lesson...never agree to anything unless you hear what the person is asking you for certain! :)

Yearbook Club

I was in charge of putting the yearbook together for the girls elementary school this year, and I decided to bring back the yearbook club. I found an amazing teacher sponsor, and we choose 20 5th graders to help us work on the book. It was a little tough trying to figure out what jobs they could actually do that wasn't too difficult, but we did it. The kids interviewed "Teacher Superstars" where they chose the teachers and the interview questions. After that they wrote a paragraph with their responses. They also put pictures on some of the pages. Some of them came up with survey questions to ask the grade levels, like "What is your favorite candy?" or "Which animal would you rather be?" They were very proud to have a part in the book, and I had fun working with them!

Prelim/Final Meet Awesomeness

Of course, you always want your kids to do their best at every swim meet. Sometimes that happens, and sometimes it doesn't. For our girls, it's usually a toss up, but this weekend they both did amazing! Kacy was in the 10 and under group, so it was tough for her to make it out of the prelims, but she did drop time in each of her races and did a great job. Adilyn surprisingly got into 4 finals out of the 6 races that she swam. She got 6th overall in the 100 backstroke, and 5th overall in the 50 backstroke. We were so proud of her, and we were completely unprepared to stay at the meet for all those hours! Luckily, there were enough restaurants close by that we could grab some dinner! I love her "proud of myself" smile!

A Random Camping/Work Trip

My school decided to have a semi spur of the moment professional development training in Luling, Texas for January. I wasn't in the mood to stay in a hotel with someone, so I decided I was going to drive the camper and stay at an RV park. I asked Lindsay if she wanted to stay with me and have a camping sleepover, and it was so much more fun! We made pizzas and had ice cream in the camper for our first night, and we just hung out and chatted. It was perfect, and I am so glad that we had that time together. Every time we are together, we usually have to chat quick between work stuff or between kids that need us for this or that. I was also proud of myself that I could drive the camper, hook it up, get gas, and do everything else that I needed to do all by myself. I felt so independent!