Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

My friend, Anna Venger, sent me an email asking the question; “How come you haven’t updated your blog?”

Yes, I’ve been away for a week without updating my blog. Busy, busy week.

Well, let’s see. DH invited a couple from work to come over on Saturday. I never met them before so being a bit nervous about them coming over, I scoured the house from top to bottom. It hadn’t been cleaned like that since before Science Olympiad began early last year. It was ALLOT of work to get the house back into an OK shape.

Then there was the food shopping and fixing all the food for Saturday afternoon and evening ahead of time too. Of course we had too much food, but it has been nice this week eating from left-overs. The couple is really nice, with a too-cute toddler, and we had an enjoyable evening, but quite a bit to pull together by myself.

On top of being busy with getting ready for Saturday night I had someone else put something on my plate this week, or try to. I’m the Yahoo list owner for my local huge hs group. The group Pres called Wednesday or Thursday night, said that all the Yahoo email addresses had to be cross-referenced with our membership list, and confirmed as members before Sept 1st. I told her that no way could I do this with everything else going on, and I wouldn’t just unsubscribe folks from our Yahoo group whose email I didn’t find on our membership list without first asking the folks for their name. HA, Thursday night I couldn’t sleep so I started the process; doing a mass mailing to 97 folks which has meant tons of emails from folks giving me their names. Tons of time cross-referencing names and email address to our membership list.

My HS support group also had Family Night last night where all the clubs were there for families to talk to, and learn what the various clubs do. My Science Olympiad group had 3 tables for posters, and the various items the kids have built —- lots of folks, lots of interest in what SO is and how to get their kids involved —- and there were 4 other SO families there so we had lots of people to man our 3 tables. I had also volunteered to pull together the posters. Why do I do that? During the last week I pulled together photos from our Elementary and Jr High Science Olympiad families via email, edited them to eliminate red eye, and altered the brightness and contrast on loads of them, burned them to a CD, and ended up going to Wal-Mart 3 different times to get them printed. After that I mounted the photos onto 3 posters. They looked great, showing events, kids with medals, preparation shots, parades, pizza parties,……. Lots of time pulling the 3 posters together though which has meant no time to blog.

I also committed myself to not having the PC on during school time. Today was an exception since the garage walls went up today. I encouraged the boys to watch what was going on; book learning can wait, and while they watched the construction I went on the PC. Tomorrow the trusses go up.

This past weekend MK and I went on a shopping trip to get a suit for him, and a wedding present for Pat’s niece’s wedding next weekend. I also picked up a baby present for my nephew’s new baby, and a dress for me. I do not like to shop, but really needed to get that done, plus there was the back-to-school shopping that we had to do so we had notebooks and other little things for Mt Pleasant.

The week has been a whirlwind of activity. Oh yea, there also was the pool party SK attended prior to the Family Night, an hour away, with the Jr High Kids Activity group from our hs group. He enjoys getting together with these 60 or so other hs kids. Probable a few other things happened this past week that ate up time, like school-work, but my mind is still in a whirl trying to remember it all.

But here’s my new goal — to look like this lady when I’m 86yo; but hopefully way before then.

Oh my, look at the time! I have to get to my Civic Association Board Meeting. I’m their sec’t and we’re having a discussion about what to do about folks who do not follow the developments Deed Restrictions. I’m too busy for this!