May Madness!

What a month. A month I would not trade for anything. Full of hope and promise and sentimental moments. It's Spring and getting more and more gorgeous, literally "by the day". I've been living for this month all year. I've been planning for this month all year. Specifically, for the last day of this month which will be the day before Kristin's graduation.

Months ago I told Michael, "please don't plan anything for the month of May, we're booked all month".

Want to hear the plans? lol... like you get a real choice~! First is Hannah's Triple Threat Recital. She's been practicing all year for it and the show goes on on May 14th. Sounds like no biggie, right? Well, try practice recitals both days this weekend. 3 different outfits including shoes and clothes dying episode (which I've never done before!)

Yard sale planned for tomorrow morning... would be a good idea for me to make the signs and go hang them everywhere before we drag out all of our junk only to reinstall it into the over-junked garage!

Then there's Prom. Senior Prom no less. Last Prom forever and ever amen for Kristin on May 20th. Thank goodness she has the beautiful dress. She has the date. She even has the shoes and earrings to match the beautiful dress! Want to hear the funny part? Well, she comes in from work and sits down to talk to me while I'm doing my usual cruising digiscrapbook sites and says to me,"my friends and I have been talking about coming here for pictures before the prom." We also have decided we don't want to go out to dinner, we want you to make dinner". and she smiles up at me with her beautiful "please Mom" smile. I looked at her like she had 3 heads!! And I said, "What, are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? - Go out to eat like you always do before prom or homecoming - Do you not realize what I have going on this month (as though she's not a part of her own graduation) No way I can do this...!!!" and I walked away talking to myself! Of course, the more I thought about it, the more flattered I was and started planning the dinner :) ... I have grand visions of 7 of her friends here in their beautifulness, girls in the bathroom mirrors, guys standing around, all of them going out to the beach and us taking pictures, serving them a wonderful dinner and them driving off in the limo for a magical night at the Prom. What the reality will be is anyone' s guess (or worst nightmare).

Then there's the Graduation. There's the invitiations to the Graduation. The invitations to the Graduation party. Well, the "designer" in me gets going and of course, I can make those myself. Sure if the paper would match, the envelopes would fit, the printer would cooperate, if I had all the right addresses and address labels. Sure then that would be a snap! Oh and did I mention the scanner for the old pics of Kristin's first day of school or her invitation to her Kindergarten Graduation would actually scan right and magically appear on my the hard drive of my laptop! Of course there's then the slide show...Oh now that's a real treat to try to make! Think the music would word from Itunes? No siree buddy...so the songs I wanted to include must be bought and then uploaded onto the laptop, even though I have already bought them from Itunes for .99 each! Think the slide show program would let you move pictures around fairly easily? Ha! Another laughable wish! I'll be lucky to ever get the slide show done in time for her College Graduation!

Michael recommended his catering friend who did the company picnic last year to do the Graduation Barbeque... (Party of 80)! Sounds good to me! Love this husband of mine!

We made up the guest bedroom, installed the queen size bed, new bedding, hung curtains and now only need to get the cable working in there! Window treatment people are coming on Monday and say they can install the treatments within 3 weeks - cutting it close. No biggie if that doesn't happen.

Ok, now that I've written a book... truth is, I wouldn't trade this month for anything!