I laid down in bed last night and suddenly remembered that I had never done the POTW. That's pretty much the way the month of May goes in general. I like May. There are always lots of fun reasons to celebrate. End of season parties and performances and award ceremonies and end-of-year events. It's a transition time between spring sports and summer sports for us - so schedules are wacky. There are projects to complete and last minute cramming (at least for the big boys). There are always expectations (from teachers and kids) to squeeze activities and "stuff" into the work day. And of course the paid job has an expectation that we are, you know, actually working. It's busy and random and pretty chaotic.
So it's easy to forget stuff...
This week is pretty typical May. Add in the catch-up from being gone and it's been a long week...
Zane and Beck got sent home from school on Tuesday with head lice. *shudder* So we've been dealing with that all week. Daily checks with the nurse... many hours of Nit Picking - literally... pretty gross, TBH, but I think we are about over it. We have one more treatment to do and I promised both the boys and the school nurse that we would spend time every day looking for nits. They are HARD to see. Particularly hard in sandy blonde heads... There's never a good time for lice, but getting them in May is kind of like double-bad.
Wednesday night was Spencer's lacrosse banquet. He won the "Wolverine of the Year" award for the JV team. This is one of those "big/special" awards that the coaches pick. They give out best attack/middie/defense and MVP awards and this one. It's meant to be given to the kid on the team who can always be counted on to uphold the ideal of the team. I consider it a "quality of character" award and am really very proud that Spencer won it. He's a good kid. :)
Tonight Quinn goes to the 8th grade formal. It's kind of a right of passage in the transition from middle school to high school. He's ready and excited to go. He's going with some friends - so it should be a low key fun night for him!
This weekend Spencer goes to the high school athletic awards ceremony. They will be recognizing a number of things - including multi-sport athletes. Zane has a lacrosse tournament with his summer team.
Next week is the last week of school. The boys have 4 days left after today. The little boys leave next Thursday for their first sleep away camp (more on that next week) and Spencer/Bob are heading to Virginia Beach for a wrestling tournament. If you could see the high school practice schedule on our calendars through the summer, you'd think we were crazy. We are crazy... Spencer will do 2-a-days most every day through the weeks because he wants to do the wrestling workouts and the football workouts until after the 4th of July, when he will focus on football. Quinn will be doing wrestling and lacrosse... it will be a whole summer of driving back and forth to the high school in between meetings or on conference calls. Yay...
I thought I'd share a picture of me and Bob this week because I never really do that - and I also don't really have any good pictures of the boys. I really need to get better about that because they are all growing up fast right now!
Have a great week!
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