An all-over week

We're making some progress here, gang. We're almost to the end of May!  

Laura spent the night with us on Sunday the 19th.  We went to Costco and bought dinner, including this delightful dessert sampler pack.  

I wore my new Pac-Man shirt on Monday the 20th.  You can hear it, can't you?

Laura was staying at a resort in Scottsdale on Monday and Tuesday night for a conference she was attending.  On Tuesday the 21st I went and met her and attended their fancy banquet that evening.  There was a roaring fire by where we loaded the party bus. 

The event was pretty cool.  There was even a laser light show in the tent.  

Elliott played the piano in his school talent show on the 22nd. 

I had signed up to take a free make-up class on Thursday the 23rd.  The only reason I did was because you got free make-up at the end.  But then I was thinking it was a lot of time (it was 2 hours) and was it really worth it for some free make-up because I know how to do my make-up anyway.  Then I stabbed myself with the mascara wand that morning and decided I should go to the class. 

My bag of free make-up.  

Michael and I went to the movies on Friday the 24th.  I think we saw John Wick 3.  I snuck in some snacks for us and thought it was funny. 

We drove down to Tucson that evening for the long Memorial Day weekend.  For whatever reason, I took all of these pictures of my parent's house on Saturday the 25th.  I think I just like to have updated pictures in case I need them for blogging and facebooking purposes. 

Here's a small selection:

front of house

backyard

my parent's room

Pictures on the walls 

the dining room 

Stairs to the basement 

hallway bathroom 

half of the basement  

laundry room 

guest room  

OOOH.  We've got a week left of May.  I think I can get it wrapped up before it's July!

Mother's Day and Beyond

We went to my favorite Mexican restaurant for breakfast on Mother's Day.  As a reminder, that was May 12th.  Ugh.  Still so far behind. 

It's my favorite Mexican-for-breakfast restaurant.  I mean, come on!  Carne asada omelet with chips, salsa, and coffee?!  YES!

I selected and bought all of my own gifts.  Michael did put them in bags for me though. 

All my favorites!

We worked on Spencer's campaign posters on Monday the 13th.  Spoiler alert.  He lost the election by 10 votes. 

That day was also totally awesome because all of these packages were delivered at one time.  This is all stuff I had bought over something like three to four weeks.  They just happened to arrive in one shipment. 

Before

After 

Ready to take the posters to school on Tuesday the 14th. 

Ready to launch into a life in space. 

I had an appointment with my dermatologist that day.  She removed two moles from my leg. I still think it's funny she thought these were suspicious.  Spoiler alert- the biopsy was fine. 

The bandages reminded me of ravioli.

The jacaranda tree in our neighbor's yard was just lovely in mid-May, so I tried to take a picture of the beautiful purple flowers.  The sun beam was unexpected. 

I bought this bouquet at Trader Joe's that day.  Flowers were really cheap after Mother's Day. 

I helped to chaperone a field trip at work on the 16th.  I case manage four of these five kids.  I was responsible for all of them that day.  I was exhausted. 

Elliott was 7 years 5 months on the 16th. 

Official

On Friday the 17th the kids had their spring piano recital. Their teacher, Jana, has so many students now that she did two concerts- a Friday night and a Saturday morning. 

Accidental twins

Not twins, but Elliott still wanted to have his picture too. 

My manicure on the 17th.  I tried to take it with my flowers.  I'm just not very good at these nail pictures. 

I took a day long class on Saturday the 18th.  They had breakfast and lunch as part of it.  I sent a picture of my lunch dessert to Michael to make him jealous. 

I also got to take home the centerpiece from my table.   So for a few days we had lots of beautiful flowers in the house. 

Yeah, I did it again

I know, I know, I know.  I sound like a broken record with my continual lack of blogging and then feeling like I need to catch up.  I have two days left of Extended School Year speech therapy and then I'm off for a few weeks.  The kids are also going to be gone- to camp and to Florida.  There should be  time and no more excuses!

We are venturing all the way back to May 5th.  That is darn near two months ago!

It was Cinco de Mayo, so naturally I cooked the Easter pasta that I had forgotten to cook at Easter time. 

It was tasty!

Spencer was 11 years 8 months on the 6th.  I don't even remember taking these pictures. 

Cropped a little, this is official. 

That week was teacher appreciation week.  I sent in little packets of pens and sticky notes. 

There was a cute tag too. 

I took this picture at work on the 8th because I had been telling Maryellen about these chewy Tums and how delicious they are.  I wanted her to see the label.  If you have occasional heart burn, you should try these.  They are like candy.  Not chalky at all. 

I had a doctor's appointment on the 10th.  I thought he had a very nice personal office, so I snapped some pictures while I waited. 

Look at who is right next door to my doctor.  A Speech Language Pathologist!  

We went out to dinner with John and Maryellen on the 11th. I wore these shoes.  I've had these shoes since approximately 2003 or 2004.  They fell apart years ago and I glued them together.  Unfortunately, they fell apart again.

I decided it was time to let them go.  Into the garbage they went.  Farewell, shoes, farewell.