My 3rd Grader!!!

We celebrated the very last day of 2nd grade today! Sadie has had a great year, and she had the best teacher! We all love Mrs Staton, and will miss her so much!

Sadie was awarded a great plaque at the awards ceremony today. Only 2 students per class were given awards for Character Qualities and Sadie received the award for her class. Her character quality is Thoroughness. Mrs Staton has said from the very beginning of the year that Sadie is very thorough in her work - it must be perfect before she turns it in. I'm so proud of her!!! Oh, she also made straight A's all year this year!

I can't believe we are ready for 3rd grade, but h-e-r-e we go!!!

So I'm a Little Bit Behind . . . Again

So, now I'm a slacker blogger again.

Since my last post, Sadie has turned 8 - WOW! - that's a big number when attached to my girl! Luke Calton has also graduated from Preschool - all on the same day!!! May 14th was a big day for us.

I totally meant to blog an awesome "Tamra worthy" page of tribute to how big and awesome my kids are getting . . . but I didn't. I did take some great pictures while thinking how great they would look while decorating said post. But they are still on my camera and not yet on my computer. Maybe next week . . .

But I do have something to say that is current! (I know - you are all shocked and amazed!) Luke goes tomorrow for his Kindergarten readiness test at CHA.

I must admit to being a bit nervous.

I know he's ready - we waited a whole extra year, for goodness sake - I KNOW he's ready!

I have nothing to worry about. He knows all the stuff he should know . . . I think.

But what if he doesn't? What if they say he needs to wait another year?

I know, I know - they will totally not say that.

But what if they do?

Being a Mommy is a hard job

(stop laughing Mom . . . and Dodie . . . and Tammy . . . and Grandmother!!!)

It's so hard to know if you're doing the right thing, and by the time you figure out that maybe you didn't do the right thing, you've already screwed them up and it's too late to fix it.

So, now I'm just waiting to get through tomorrow, and then I'll know. And the good news is that I'll be way too busy to think about it tomorrow as I desperately try to finish getting ready for the garage sale that we're starting on Fri morning, and getting my house half-way presentable before Mom and Dad get here tomorrow!!!

What am I still doing on here???

I have work to do!!!

Spring has Sprung . . .

Well, Spring has Circulated more than Sprung through Oklahoma tonight. The meteorologists don't even have any idea how many tornadoes we had this afternoon. We got to have a tornado drill here at the house - climbed into the tiny hallway closet. We haven't had to do that since the kiddos were too tiny to remember. And just fyi, that closet is much smaller than I remember it!!! Probably because my kids are soooo much bigger, but probably also has something to do with the fact that we had to share the closet with and American Girl (Chrissa), Bunny, Sadie's favorite blanket, and Luke's Pillow Pet. How it makes me wish for a basement!!! Anyway, we had some decent hail here at our house - about golf ball size. We have lots of friends that live farther south that got huge softball size hail that went right through their roof. Some other friends with car damage - mostly windshields broken and such. At least one friend that lost the roof off their home and most of the windows. Praising God that they are safe!

In happier news - Sadie won first place at Frisbee Throw in her school's Track and Field Day today. The weather for that was horrible also - it was freezing all morning and the wind was atrocious! I don't know that I will ever get all these tangles out of my hair! EVER!

She also went to visit Bro. Walter at church, because she has been wanting to be baptized. Walter says he feels confident that she understands all that she did (when she accepted Christ), and that she is ready to start the New Believers class that is required before baptism. She is on the waiting list, and as soon as there is an opening - she will start that, and can be baptized after that if she decides she's ready. She has been asking for a while now to go talk to Bro Walter, so she is really excited!