2. I got my hair cut OFF yesterday. Two things I should never do: 1) go to the grocery store hungry and 2) go to the salon when I'm emotional. I say things like "I'm so sick of my longer hair" and "Do whatever you want to" and that always ends with it shorter than I wanted. The second day after a cut like that is always known as 'the day I started growing my hair out'.
3. Olivia has an admirer. It makes sense, really, because Olivia rocks! but her admirer is a boy in her class that brought her some pencils wrapped in cellophane and a pretty bow. He brought them to her track meet and presented them to her like they were flowers. When I asked her about it, she said "Yeah, I said I wanted a new pencil". And, just like that, she had some. So funny.
4. Speaking of pencils, Olivia witnessed a girl in her class being mean to another boy. He wanted to borrow the girl's eraser and pencil and the girl was ugly to him. The whole thing upset Olivia SO BADLY. So, what did she ask me to do? We stopped at Walmart last night to buy the boy some pencils and a big, new eraser. She was SO excited to take them to him this morning.
5. Pencils are the new flowers.
6. Speaking of kind gestures {we were, weren't we?}, Emma came home from school yesterday BEGGING me to please make chocolate chip pancakes for her teacher this morning. I'm not sure where all that came from other than she mentioned to her teacher I had made them for breakfast yesterday and her teacher said that was nice. Emma would NOT be deterred, so I'm laughing this morning as I'm packing her teacher a bag with homemade pancakes and a cup of syrup. I'm so curious as to whether she really ate them.
7. Emma's Esther play is this Saturday. Her class performed it yesterday for just the students (yes, I'm bitter) but we finally get to see it this weekend. I can't wait.
8. Eric is on his way home from another business trip. When I look at the rest of this month's calendar, I don't see any trips scheduled. {I'm choosing not to look at next month.} I hope this isn't an oversight, Eric!
That's it ... that's all we've been doing. Just trying to get through these last few weeks of school and enjoy them. I keep saying "You'll never be in fifth and second grade again! ENJOY it!" For the record, Olivia is totally fine with saying goodbye to second grade, while Emma is genuinely sad to leave her teachers and friends.
9. One last thing .... this song by Amy Grant just released Tuesday and makes me cry. It's describes EXACTLY where I am right now. Maybe you are too ...























