South Elgin High School BP Fair - great event, but required me to leave at 4:45 AM to go to Wal-Mart to get a mirror for the fashion booth. We saw about 350 students, and the most challenging class was the 6th hour (see the wild boys on the bosu balls).....they were out of control!

Week in the life - Tuesday April 20

It's a beautiful day for a Daisy Girl Scout meeting. We made campfire SWAPs for the upcoming camporee (which proved to be more difficult a craft than I thought it would). Then, we went outside to work on our Daisy workbooks. Each girl drew pictures of their favorite animal and took turns reading the story about the first Girl Scout, Juliette Gordon Low. At the end of the meeting, Megan and Taylor did not want to leave (is that a sign of kids having fun or just a post-sugar letdown?)

Week in the Life - Wednesday, April 21

Wednesday morning - lunch of PB&J, Capri Sun, Cheese Stick, Danonino yogurt and baby tomatoes. Library day, so have to return Junie B, First Grader (at last). The garbage cans are still at the end of the driveway, and Garbage day was 3 days ago - for a moment I ponder - should I just leave them out there until next Monday? Shamu somehow finds his way to the driveway, and lays there like a beached whale. I woke up at 4:30, allowing an email to make me angry all night. I took a nice hot bath, then worked on emails for about 2 hours before I responded to Traci at the Park District. Hope I get some more sleep tonight!

Week in the Life - Wednesday

It felt quiet in the house, so I went hunting for Schuyler and found her sitting on her table, singing to herself. Just making up a little song about the weather and singing. Stay creative, girl!

Dinner: lazytime manwich. I made man-dogs, which is manwich in a hot dog bun (yes, we are out of bread). Notice Schuyler's plate - first you see mustard, now you don't...how could I make that mistake? Schuyler and I enjoyed a little picnic dinner on the front porch. The table and chairs are there, because the grass has been trashed right out the door - hazard of having 3 dogs.

Notice the 3 pups at the door waiting to be let outside. Why are they always on the "wrong" side of the door? In, out, in, out.....

Week in the Life Thursday April 22

Any more? This is Beni, cruzing to see if Buddy left any crumbs in his morning breakfast bowl. Sorry, you are out of luck this time...

Week in the Life - Thursday April 22

Good Morning! This is what I found when I opened Schuyler's sock drawer to get out socks for the day. I wonder what her thought process was for putting baby in the drawer. Time out?