THIS MORNING'S CONSTITUTIONAL

Before the rains came that is. Don't you just love the greenery? I
realized today why I hate the gym. Toooo boring. I love being outside.
There are so many trails for Butch and I to explore.

SNOW?????

NOT! It's hale instead. We have seen it all this week. Now it is rainning with the sun shinning outside. I found that it is hard to drive when the hale is dumping on your windshield. It is almost as if the ice rocks are scrapping across the whole front window and it sounds like fingernails on chalkboard. Ekkk!

FUNDRAISERS

Woo Hoo! It's that time of year folks when the Girl Scouts are selling the cookies, Mimi's school is gearing up for the Raffle Basket/Silent Auction night at school on the 28th of April and Summit Gymnastics is having their annual plant sale.

I am in the middle of them all. Although Mimi is not a Girl Scout but her friends are we bought several boxes from them. I am in the middle of trying to get our local businesses to donate their goods for the silent auction. It's been tough as many of the businesses are just trying to keep their heads above water. Then there is the plant sale for the gymnatic team.

This was our morning conversation in regards to the plant sale.

Mimi: Mom, why are we having a plant sale?
Mom: So the gym can make some money to pay the coaches.
Mimi: Why???
Mom: Because the coaches need to make money so that they can eat and have a roof over their heads and plus some of the money is used to buy new equiptment like the new trampoline you got last year. Equiptment is very expensive (the new trampoline cost the gym $10,000.00).
Mimi: (her eyes got real big) I know! I've been looking in my gymnastic magazine and in the back they show the equiptment. Some of them are over $20.00!!!

I just had to smile :-)

WILD WINTER

While watching my baby walk to school this morning, I realized that we have been having such a wild winter weather. The other day Mimi was walking to school with Halli and it was a huge down pour of snow. Today it the wild winds and rain. I love watching Mimi walk to school from our kitchen window. The sad part my baby is growing up way too fast for me.

Talked with Norman yesterday and he just repeated what we already know. The cut off day is June 9th and we are June 14th. He says that he is 95% sure that we will get our referal this month. In the meantime, we are still waiting for our INS clearance. I hate waiting more than ever now.

AROUND LAKE WILDERNESS

I love to take Butch to Lake Wilderness in the Fall/Winter/Spring seasons when the kids are in school. The best time to go there is in the morning. However today we went in the afternon which was ok too. However other people had the same idea. In the morning there is no one at the lake. When we are there and being that the kids are in school, I can let Butch off the leash and he can run everywhere to his big heart's content. Believe it or not the ducks and geese were there just quaking and honking away loud and clear as a bell. There were the little ducklings too. Soooooo cute.

DIRT

One would think that withall all of the snow and rain we are getting,
one would not have to wash their car. WRONG! Car washing places here
are up and running. Poor guys that have to work them. Hard to believe
that I just had my car washed last Saturday and sadly it needs it again.

SNOWING AGAIN

It started about 7 this morning. I was waiting for the school's phone
call but it never came. Keri said that Blake was waiting till the very
last minute. Knowing my child, I had her suited up for the snow which
means layers of clothes including snow pants (which she did not want
to wear and I know that come recess time she'll be running and jumping
everywhere getting her butt cold and wet therefore the pants went on),
jacket, beannie, gloves and boots. She looks like the kid from
Christmas Story where he says "I can't put my arms down!"