We survived the Gold and Green Gala and can now move on to other things in life. A breather is in order and we're taking a short respite as the kiddos head into a two week Spring Break starting Saturday. We're heading up to the traditional Easter celebration--now only a 6 or 7 hour drive from home that day and plan on staying to visit a few of the Frau's college buddies and family--some she hasn't seen in 10+ years.
Other than that, this post is really just here to push the current one off the top. Not getting too many comments, but am sure it's not getting many reads either. A Blessed Easter to All
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Friday, March 7, 2008
Pine Cones and Deer Poop
If you are easily offended by the vision of animal waste, please do not scroll down any further.
Today, the kids had a day off from school for a Teacher's In Service Day (training). To celebrate, we had the 1st annual Pine Cones and Deer Poop Collection Contest. Prizes ranged from $.50 to $2 to the winner who brought in the most stuff the fastest. We told the kids to view this as a warm-up for the Easter Egg Hunt coming up later this month. Anyway, this is probably the best motivational idea I've had to get the kids outside and working to date. They picked up more than 12 plastic grocery bags full of pine cones (I was still stuck cleaning up the deer poop) and they cleared the lawn and surrounding areas in about 7 minutes.
I was so happy, I've written a folk song about it entitled none other than "Pine Cones and Deer Poop" but I won't make you endure listening to it until it's picked up by a recording studio.
That's it for now...unless you really want to see the picture of some of the stuff nature drops on us.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Life is Crazy
The auction is fast approaching and we're heavily involved. This week David has been putting together the catalog so it can go to print early next week. After a slow start, we got a LOT of donations--almost two weeks after the cut-off date they're still rolling in. Not that we're going to turn anyone down! But we'll have to stop accepting items pretty soon--we've got to finalize the catalog. I've been spending my time doing whatever Melanie, our event coordinator, needs me to do--selling tickets, making arrangements with the venue, designing posters, editing item descriptions, setting up for the "grand unveiling," standing out in the parking lot in a leprechaun hat trying to drum up business. You know, the usual.
Ticket sales are not going quite as well. Everyone tells us people around here tend to procrastinate, so keep your fingers crossed for us. We've sold about 70 tickets so far, and we were hoping to have 200 people. But there was an article in the newspaper this week (it comes out on Wednesdays) and ticket sales are picking up. Unfortunately, the chef needs a rough count by the end of the week, and final by Wednesday, so our ticket sales were supposed to end Friday. We've extended until Tuesday, praying that most people WON'T wait until the last minute. Of course, only about 25% of the committee members have bought tickets so far, so I guess we can't complain about procrastinators too much!
We've probably mentioned before that each class made a project for the auction. If you'd like to see pictures of the items, just click on the Gold and Green Gala link to the right, listed under "Some of our favorite links" You'll recognize Bridget's class (under the First Grade link) from the photo on a previous post; Max is in the Life Skills class. In fact, most of those handprints are his--the other kids weren't too keen on getting their hands gooey. He's also in Mrs Holden and Mrs Jacobsen's class, (Fourth Grade) but their project isn't finished yet.
If you don't hear from us for the next few weeks, don't despair--we're just going crazy with the final details. We'll let you know how it all turns out.
Ticket sales are not going quite as well. Everyone tells us people around here tend to procrastinate, so keep your fingers crossed for us. We've sold about 70 tickets so far, and we were hoping to have 200 people. But there was an article in the newspaper this week (it comes out on Wednesdays) and ticket sales are picking up. Unfortunately, the chef needs a rough count by the end of the week, and final by Wednesday, so our ticket sales were supposed to end Friday. We've extended until Tuesday, praying that most people WON'T wait until the last minute. Of course, only about 25% of the committee members have bought tickets so far, so I guess we can't complain about procrastinators too much!
We've probably mentioned before that each class made a project for the auction. If you'd like to see pictures of the items, just click on the Gold and Green Gala link to the right, listed under "Some of our favorite links" You'll recognize Bridget's class (under the First Grade link) from the photo on a previous post; Max is in the Life Skills class. In fact, most of those handprints are his--the other kids weren't too keen on getting their hands gooey. He's also in Mrs Holden and Mrs Jacobsen's class, (Fourth Grade) but their project isn't finished yet.
If you don't hear from us for the next few weeks, don't despair--we're just going crazy with the final details. We'll let you know how it all turns out.
Saturday, March 1, 2008
The White Stuff Returns
Just when we thought Spring might have a toehold on Central Oregon, the white stuff returned overnight. Go figure! Of course it was 56 degrees yesterday--64 in Bend. Anyway, all is covered again and we're keeping warm doing indoor projects.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
