Rambling On

On the home stretch

In two more days the children will be done school for the summer holidays. They are both looking forward to a summer of fun and relaxation. I’m not sure how much relaxing I’ll get done having a couple of kids home and underfoot, but we will see. So over the next couple of days I need to get quite a bit accomplished. There are just certain things I don’t like to do when the children are around, so I have to make sure that I get everything done that I want to have done before Friday. Oh well, in September I knew this day was coming so I guess I’ll have to suck it up.

Field day

I really do hope that the weatherman holds true to his word today. They are calling for cloudy with sunny periods. No rain showers have been mentioned. I really hope this does work out in the end. Both the kids have their annual sports field day at school today, but if it rains they won’t be able to participate. Both the kids went to school in shorts and didn’t take a lunch as they are supposed to be having a BBQ. So hopefully for their sakes, the weather stays the way it’s supposed to. Finger’s crossed everyone!

Field trip cancelled

My daughter’s grade 5 class was supposed to go bowling today. But due to heavy rains, their trip got cancelled. Yeah. I know your wondering why would the trip get cancelled because of rain, since most people bowl inside right??? Well it got cancelled because they were going to walk to the bowling alley. But the teacher’s kind of expected this to happen and made other plans. So although they don’t get to go bowling, they will still be having a fun day at school. And I don’t know about the other kids, but my daughter is just as happy to be doing fun things at school as she was to go bowling. So all in all everything worked out OK.

New camera

Well my husband finally listened to me! Last night he came home from work with a brand new digital camera for me. And it’s all mine! There really was nothing wrong with the old one, it was just way to big to carry around. This one he bought me is quite small so it can fit in my purse and I can take it anywhere. Well over the next couple of weeks I plan on getting a lot of use out of it. I will be taking it with me when I go to supervise my son’s swimming class and will have it in my pocket for my daughter’s grade 5 graduation. Finally I will be able to get some great pictures of the kids.

A baby at my age??

Here I thought at my age I was too old to have another baby. But when I was looking through the Birth Announcements in our local paper over the weekend, I was extremely surprised to see a woman my age that had just given birth. So, I guess I’m not too old yet. But, there will be no more babies for me. Now I have to wait to place Photo Birth Announcements in the paper when my grandchildren are born. When I had all three of my children, I did place a baby birth announcement so when the grandchildren start arriving I will probably place a childbirth announcement on their behalf as well. But as far as giving birth at my age, nope, not going to happen.

Neat idea

The other night I was checking out the site over at www.express-invitations.com to see if I could find some pretty and unique graduation invitations to purchase for my daughter’s upcoming grade 5 graduation. While I was there, I discovered that they sell Photo Invitations. I thought what a neat idea. I could order some of the Photo Invitations Announcements with my daughter’s grade 5 picture on the front. I really want to make this time special for her and buy purchasing this type of photo invitation, I think this will be a time she will remember for ever.

Graduating from grade 5

Although every year my husband and I will make a pretty big purchase for the kids if they pass the school year, this year will be a little different. My daughter will be grading from grade 5 so this means that she will be graduating from elementary school. So this also means that we have to purchase her a pretty great gift for all her efforts. Well, this is going to cost us.

So I have been looking online to see if I can find any deals of some sort. Well I was pretty happy to stumble across a site over at Coupon Trunk. They have a whole host of coupons on their site for a great many stores. One of my favorite sites to shop at is Buy.com. And this site supplies a whole host of coupons from Buy.com. So I am going to take one of these coupons and buy a gift that is very deserving for a child who is leaving elementary school and entering middle school. And, I’m pretty sure I will be able to find a pretty great grading present for my son who is entering grade 4 next year.

Out of control neighborhood kids

I’m not a fan of kids in general. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I love my kids to death and wouldn’t know what life would be like without them. But for the most part I’m not a real fan of other people’s children. And that holds especially true for my neighbor’s kids.

Right now we have one little boy that is completely out of control in the park and everything he does is fine by his parents. Last night he ran into some one’s car on purpose, put a huge dent in it and all the neighbor’s had to say was that this person shouldn’t have parked their car there to begin with. WTH??? If that had of been my son, and thankfully it wasn’t, he would have been grounded for a month. This other child is only 9 years old, I hate to see what his behavior is going to be like when he becomes a teenager. His parents are going to be in for a real treat.

Not much time left

It’s hard to believe that the kids only have about a month of school left. They’ve both had a pretty good year of school, but are now looking forward to a couple of months off for summer vacation. But as a mother, I’m not really looking forward to this extended vacation. The kids have a tendency to fight quite a bit and being home for two months together, I anticipate that they will be fighting quite a bit. Oh well, I still have a month of freedom to go before I am locked down for the summer.

Five weeks to go

Only five more weeks and the kids will be finished yet another school year. My youngest son will be going into grade 4 next year and my daughter will be headed off to middle school (grade 6). I really have to wonder where all the years have gone. It only seems like yesterday that we were walking her into the school for her very first day of kindergarten. Now, we will be escorting her out of the school on her very last day of elementary school. But, both kids did really well this year and are looking forward to a very fun filled summer before they both head back into the school system.