Organizing Queen

Okay,  I just spent the last week and a half inventorying fall project donations at the kids school.  I as the chairman of the Art Masterpiece Committee, thought hey I'll just go in and catalog what comes in and then when a lesson has all the donations I'll just let the committee member know that they can fill the lesson packet.  Then I got to thinking well that's pretty dumb, I'm already going thru all the donations, I might as well just quickly bag up all the different class lesson as they come in.  SO, I went in every morning from the time of dropping the kids off at 7:40 and picking Ivan up at 11. 
I finally got the last packet filled yesterday.

But ofcourse being there all that time, and sometimes having that additional 30-45 minutes to kill until the little one gets out of kinder.  I decided to reorganize the art masterpiece cabinets, and label everything, and make check lists for all the committee members.  I even reorganized the master binder, which I foolishly thought would be better left at school so that the committee members could have access to pertinent info when it was needed.  Yay...not so much.  I'd get e-mails and phone calls asking me for certain info that I wouldn't have because the book was at the school.  So now I have the big book here at home, and a smaller book at school and any pertinent info they might need is now in their individual binders, whew!

Along with all that, I've been working on sewing costumes, helping the in-laws get settled in, and taking cake orders.

I'm a busy, busy girl!  Hopefully after this weekend things will settle down a bit.  I always said, oh I'll have the time to do this and that once Ivan starts school.  NOW...I say oh I'll have time to do this and that once Ivan goes to school for full days.  LOL...I have a feeling I'll come up with something else to say once he goes to school for full days too...What do you think?

Wind, Rain and Hail, Oh My!!

Imagine my surprise when the gentle pitter patter of the rain outside became a blustery wind mixed with dime sized pieces of hail.  Power loss ensued for about 10 minutes before turning back on, and ofcourse during the affair the incessant water leaking drip out of the vent located over the masterbed became a torrential downpour inside my house!

The question now, is the leak a roof problem or an A/C one???

But then again what does it really matter, seeing as how we are unable to have it fixed at the moment, lol!

Playing Catch-Up

Okay, so I'm reading a friend's facebook page and it reminds me that I started up this blog yet have not been on it in a very long time.

So --- Here is the gist of whats going on in Arizona.

Both the kids are in school - the little man started kindergarten this year, and the sweet pea is in 2nd grade.  They both made honor roll this quarter, and as their teachers put it, are a delight to have in their class. - ROCK ON!

Pete's parents FINALLY purchased a home out here and are even now as I type, driving out here with the horses and a u-haul to live permanently, yay!  We can't wait to have them settled in, the kids really miss them, and ofcouse Sierra is going bonkers for the horses to get here.  Plus lets face it and be honest, once the parents are here, can you say - babysitter - I might actually get to remember what a date night feels like.

Pete is working an in town position, a year long detail.  SO far he's not terribly impressed, I have a feeling this is going to be a long year for him!

I somehow got signed up to be the Art Masterpiece Program Chairman at the kids school - ahem, thanks a lot Crystalle! - A position that has been keeping me extremely busy, and more involved in the kids school than I ever thought I would be, lol.

The puppy "Mika", is 6 months old now, I try and take her to the dog park everyday, but the past couple of weeks we've had Zip and Abby too, so it's more like 2-3 times a week right now.  She is honestly the polar opposite of Hermes, and I have to admit, I love her to death, but the connection I had with Hermes just isn't there with Mika.  She's doing really well in the potty training area, she'll sit, shake, and lay down about 85% of the time, she's finally getting better at "come" but otherwise she's just a nut ball with way too much energy, who hasn't grown into her gangly legs, lol.

I'll hopefully write again soon, after all my birthday is coming up so I'll need to reflect on that in a bit, lol!