Love Friday

What a great Friday!

I finished preschool for the school year. Graduation went off without a hitch. We got our Pre-K rooms cleaned, closets purged, reorganized and refilled and locked up for the summer. I helped out in all 3 rooms which meant I floated here and there and did a little bit everywhere but not the lion's share anywhere. It's a delicate balance of helping everyone evenly in 2 days. A couple of our Pre-K rooms are used by the church for the summer so we have to put away alot of our stuff and put out things that we don't mind them using for Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. When we return all the parts and pieces may not be there or be in the shape we left them in so obviously we don't want to leave out items important to our curriculum. If we have to keep replacing when we are intent on adding and enhancing our program it can be frustrating to say the least.

So today was very nice as it was my first real day off. And I got to spend the first half with Indy finishing our shopping for her Africa trip. Then we picked Mariah up at school - YES! she actually went to school for a half day today - and got to hear all about her first day back. Afterwards, Mariah joined me at lunch with some friends and put away half of a huge Chimichanga! She's doing remarkably well! I'm sure many of you read on Facebook how by Wednesday she wasn't even on painkillers anymore. What a tough cookie she is. When we took off the top bandages it seemed to take some of the support off the incisions, and sometimes the pain returns...that, and there is a certain someone who keeps making jokes, causing Mariah to get the giggles (you know how 12 yr olds are) and that is quite painful. I don't know what that persons' problem is but this has been a very funny week for her and she can't seem to stop herself. Luckily for Mariah this comedian had to work on Wednesday and Thursday so she wasn't around very much then. Could be that's why Mariah didn't need any painkillers those days.

To celebrate and pamper ourselves after a rough few days, Mariah joined me on a mani/pedi trip this afternoon. It was a fun afternoon we had together! We barely made it into the car before a huge thunderstorm hit. I dropped her off at home, watched as Taryn made it home in the deluge, then drove to Gib's bus stop at the corner because the lightning and thunder was non-stop. The bus was actually taking kids door to door but we didn't know that until I was already there. The rain was coming down so hard, the kids were drenched in the 5 feet from the bus door to the car door, so running across the yard would have been alot worse.

I also got to see all of Taryn's art work from the year. WOW!!! Gorgeous stuff! I need to take photos and blog this. I already have one piece on the mantel and it is perfect up there with stuff I already had. I would have bought it in a store. She had 3 pieces in the art show for her high school and didn't even tell us. What a little stinker. I would have gone to see it!! She is so talented. Wait until you see the drawings, paintings and etchings.

Tonight we all played Killer Bunnies. It was a fun one. At the last minute Taryn went Kamikazi by mistake (Mariah played a Bad Karma card making her turn the weapon on herself), killing all her bunnies, and some of Mariah's and Indy's. At the bitter end, Indy and I had the final 2 carrots. I only had 1 carrot the entire game too. Indy won with a carrot she got off Mike. That made the victory especially sweet.

Now Indy is catching up on the last of the DVR shows she hasn't watched this week. I believe it will be a Big Bang marathon for the rest of the night.