It has been a busy month here at Casa Cole. We started the month with Mam's birthday- pictures to come tomorrow when I download the pictures from the other camera. Then we headed to the baseball game on 07May, for the Star Wars themed bobble head give away. Since food is unbelievably expensive at the game, I packed us a picnic dinner- some grilled chicken, a quinoa/tomato/cucumber salad. F brought grapes and L brought some more fruit. The Reds lost the game in the 10th inning, we had already left, but we had a great time visiting with friends.
Our seats were in the highest section, but right behind home plate.
The following Friday (Friday the 13th), little man's school had a carnival. it was a great success. He and his friends were excited to win light sabers at the carnival. They were then happy to spend the rest of the evening having battles. I entered some raffles and we won a week of camp for little man. He is not excited about it, so we will donate the week to an organization that works with under privileged kids. He did not like it because none of his friends are going. Even the possibility of going to a week of camp with horse back riding every day was not enough to have him consider changing his mind. Oh well.
Little Man and his buddy having an ice cream. He was a happy boy at the carnival.
I began the process of picking a color to paint my room. We are going to host an exchange student again, and the boys will share my room and I will move into little man's room. I have to do this because I need my office, so at the end of the work day, I can shut the door and leave work behind. So we had about 6 choices of colors. I posted them on facebook and it was amazing how many people ended up choosing the color I ended up going with- which was not my first choice.
The color in the upper right below is the one I went with. It is called "Sea Ice", a very pale blue.
I wanted the one below in the top right- called "Tahitian Breeze", a little more blue/green. But as I looked at it at the store, it was just going to be too dark in the room
On Monday, I met with other volunteers at a local pizza place for the volunteer dinner hosted by the school PTO. I am not sure what was going on here, but I really was having a great time and enjoying the time with other adults.
At the end of dinner, I was sworn in as the treasurer for the PTO for the next 2 years. It is big job, but I have lots of support.
Back to the colors- with the white around the colors, they stand out a little more. I was still going for the one on the top right and little man had decided on the top middle one
On Friday, 20May, little man had his last bowling lesson for this year. they ended the Spring session with a pizza party and glow bowl You know the boy, he was happy bowling, eating pizza and enjoying the glow. I had to go pick him up a little early as he was leaving for a weekend boy scout camp at 6:30 pm.
I sent the camera with him as they were going to Indianapolis 500 time trials. He did not take a single picture. He came home with a new tee shirt and hat. I will post those pictures soon. I thought about going on this camp out- parents are allowed to go- but I really wanted to paint. So I painted Friday night, then thought I could go up with some other moms on Saturday. They decided to leave at 7:30 am and did not come up until 7 pm. I am glad I did not go, as I would have been so tired and would not have finished the painting. Next year I am going, this is the camping trip with running water and flushing toilets! And, there is the fact that I love auto racing. Definitely, I am going next year.
So here is the start of the painting on Friday night.
This is Saturday, 3 walls are done. I decided to paint the last wall a very pale green. I am going for a serene sea glass theme. I am going to end up making a new quilt for me, which means I need to finish little man's Star Wars quilt.
Tonight, little man had his year end band concert. He is in advanced band now all 5-8th graders from local catholic schools.
Mam joined us for the concert and I treated them to ice cream after the concert. Little man has 6 more days of school. Expect a bunch of photos next week from the end of the school events.
Love and hugs,
Deb
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