You're probably wondering what in the world the title of my post means. As you've probably noticed, I'm a bit behind on my blogging this last month and I've mentioned 27,000 candy bars a time or two. So TGIEM= Thank Goodnes It's the End of March! Candy bar sales wrap up tomorrow, though a few boxes will be sold over Spring Break and I'm sure many kids will forget to turn in their money and so I will continue to collect the week after Spring Break, but today is the first school day that I have only spent ONE hour at the school. Granted, I counted money once I got home, but I didn't have to go back this afternoon. :) Michael asked me what I was going to do with all my free time once this was finally over. HA! Catch up on playing with Josiah, spring cleaning, scrap booking and maybe even blog regularly again. ;) With Noah's schedule getting busier (spring soccer AND the school musical), I don't think I'll be bored. And let's face it, Josiah is THREE. lol
Gummy was here last week and Josiah was the winner - he got to spend the most time with her and I know he had fun. They played lots of games, including Wii (in the picture where she's sitting behind his little chair, that's what they're doing :) ) and she was able to escape before the big spring snow hit. Monday was another snow day and the boys and I made sure to get out and play with the hopes that that was the last chance to build a snowman... at least until next winter!
Next week we head to Dubuque so not sure I'll be back to my regular blogging schedule, but hopefully I'll be back to "normal" after that. :) Happy Spring?!!
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Chocolate Touch
The title of this post is also the title of a book Noah read in 3rd grade but is quite fitting for my life these days... we're in candy bar heaven at Noah's school with a candy bar fundraiser and you-know-who is in charge. 27,000 chocolate bars is the goal to sell. Thankfully, Noah only has to sell about 120 of them. ;) I've spent the last week distributing permission slips and boxes of chocolate and collecting money. (I'm amazed at the number of coins I have to count.) But it's a great fundraiser for the school and really, not a hard one. Kids don't seem to have any problems getting rid of box after box of those candy bars. I'm hoping that by next Friday, all of the cases will be distributed... a mom can dream. ;) By day 3 of the sale, I had already distributed more than half of the cases, so it could happen. And after today's distribution, there aren't even 200 cases left. So, do you want to buy some chocolate?
Despite the chocolate up to my eyebrows, the boys and I have still managed to stay busy. After the last post, there was a small chance of snowy/icy conditions and so we did the snow dance, including making our own snowmen with stickers. The snow dance worked and school was canceled the next day.
That same night, Josiah and Noah got the camera and took quite a few pictures. I thought they were sort of funny, so I uploaded a few of them. I think you'll be able to tell which pictures the boys took.
Josiah also started taking swimming lessons so you'll find a few pictures of him. He does a very good job of listening to his teacher and willingly sticks his face in the water. After the first lesson (he's had two), he informed me that he didn't need any more lessons because he could do it all by himself now.
Josiah also went to the library for a Dr. Seuss party. We had lots of fun listening to Dr. Seuss stories, coloring green eggs, having a special treat and playing with the parachute.
Noah and about 20 other students from school performed with the Lima Symphony on Sunday for "Symphantastic." The concert was the annual family concert and they had all sorts of fun musical numbers, unicyclists, jugglers, acrobats and dancers. Noah's group performed to the theme from Beetlejuice. Pictures were not allowed (I snapped a couple anyway) but the group performed for their classmates on Monday, so there are a few pictures from that performance as well. Still not
great, but better than nothing. The kids did a great job and it really was a fun concert.
And another snow storm came our way and this time, we actually had snow to play in! So with school canceled yet again, out to the snow we went. We used snow markers that the boys got for Christmas to draw all over our yard. Sadly, the snow in the backyard was dry and would not pack... it wasn't until we had taken all of our winter gear off that I discovered that the FRONT yard had GREAT snowman snow. We didn't bundle back up though - there's always next year for snowmen.
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We made snow slushies instead of hot chocolate. Those pictures and all the rest can be found here.
Despite the chocolate up to my eyebrows, the boys and I have still managed to stay busy. After the last post, there was a small chance of snowy/icy conditions and so we did the snow dance, including making our own snowmen with stickers. The snow dance worked and school was canceled the next day.
That same night, Josiah and Noah got the camera and took quite a few pictures. I thought they were sort of funny, so I uploaded a few of them. I think you'll be able to tell which pictures the boys took.
Josiah also started taking swimming lessons so you'll find a few pictures of him. He does a very good job of listening to his teacher and willingly sticks his face in the water. After the first lesson (he's had two), he informed me that he didn't need any more lessons because he could do it all by himself now.
Josiah also went to the library for a Dr. Seuss party. We had lots of fun listening to Dr. Seuss stories, coloring green eggs, having a special treat and playing with the parachute.
Noah and about 20 other students from school performed with the Lima Symphony on Sunday for "Symphantastic." The concert was the annual family concert and they had all sorts of fun musical numbers, unicyclists, jugglers, acrobats and dancers. Noah's group performed to the theme from Beetlejuice. Pictures were not allowed (I snapped a couple anyway) but the group performed for their classmates on Monday, so there are a few pictures from that performance as well. Still not
great, but better than nothing. The kids did a great job and it really was a fun concert.
And another snow storm came our way and this time, we actually had snow to play in! So with school canceled yet again, out to the snow we went. We used snow markers that the boys got for Christmas to draw all over our yard. Sadly, the snow in the backyard was dry and would not pack... it wasn't until we had taken all of our winter gear off that I discovered that the FRONT yard had GREAT snowman snow. We didn't bundle back up though - there's always next year for snowmen.
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