Back to Work

     We had a beautiful weekend surrounded by great friends and family.  The weather was perfect.  Today it is 80 degrees outside and a little humid.  I am so glad that winter is over.  I went to see the honor guards' ceremony for the fallen.  It was very moving.  I was a little disappointed that the baseball players in the nearby field couldn't stop practicing for the five minutes the ceremony actually took.  Not very respectful.  After performing this ceremony 19 times at cemeteries in the area, the guard gathered to perform it once more over a garden of perfectly planted flags at the Town Hall. The ceremony began with the reading of the names of those who had fallen in the last ten years.  Then the rifle squad gave their salute.  The event was finished off with two high school students performing echo taps on their trumpets.  Beautiful!
     I think that I only have one meeting planned for this week.  I hope that I'm not forgetting anything.  Maybe I can actually get some cleaning done.  I am so frustrated with the pile of papers on the dining room table.  Every time I start to go through them I get distracted.  UGGHHH!  Maybe today will be the day I actually get through the whole pile.
     My poem Cracked Mirror was not used in the new issue of Enchanted Conversation, but that means it is still mine.  I put it on Fanstory.com and got excellent reviews.  The next submission for Enchanted Conversation is in June and the theme is Cinderella.  I read Grimms' version last night before bed hoping to get some ideas.  Nothing yet, but I am going to try to give myself some quiet time to work on it tonight.  It is so nice to have prompts and deadlines even if my stuff doesn't get used.  What matters to me is that I am accomplishing something.  It is nice to see a finished product.

A busy, but relaxing weekend.

     My daughter's concert was very nice.  We have a great music department.  Now she is on a field trip to a place called Boncher's Courses.  It is a compass course.  It sounds like a lot of fun, I hope she has a good day.
     Next up, camping for Memorial Day.  My oldest daughter will be bagging groceries this evening to raise money for next year's trip to Washington D.C.  Then we can get down to camping.  The weather may actually cooperate.  I saw a forecast this morning, and it looked like the rain was going above and below us.  Hopefully that is the case.  That forecast also had us in the 70s for Saturday and Sunday, 80s on Monday.  Could it be that summer really is coming?  I hope so.  Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone.

Concert tonight!

     There are campers in my back yard.  Too bad the weather isn't cooperating.  Sitting around freezing my butt off is not my idea of relaxation.  Oh, well.  Hopefully by the time I have time to sit around the weather will have decided to cooperate.  This evening we get to enjoy another concert at school.  This time it is the fourth and fifth grade choir and the 5th grade band.  My younger daughter is in fourth grade, next year she gets to pick an instrument.  She is thinking maybe flute, but then she might want to play the trumpet.  I told her to try both.  This is another short post, but that is okay.  I'd rather by busy than bored.

Time Flies

     Wow! it has been a long time since I have written here.  I have been working on some poems and a couple of short stories, so I am still writing.  Easter week was a busy one.  It seems so long ago now.  Since I last wrote, my youngest daughter's Softball team won third place in their first tournament as the Diamond Divas, I got to see Les Miserables with my oldest daughter and last night we enjoyed a middle school concert that included choir and band. Oh, and somewhere in there, the world did not end.  There has been so much going on that I just haven't had time to write on this blog.  Hopefully I'm back for a while.
     My oldest daughter is about to board a bus that will take her and her friends to the Brewer game in Milwaukee.  They've really earned this day of relaxation.  I hope they have a great time.
     We are having our Memorial Day camping get together at our house.  A couple of campers pulled in last night.  We are getting new tires on our camper today and then it will join the others in the back yard.  I am really looking forward to seeing everyone.  It seems like a long time since we've all been together.
     It seems like a short post, but I am a busy girl.  Hopefully I'll get back to this again tomorrow.