Happy Easter Weekend

So I continue to try Moby and it just won't work! Boo! It must be because Twitter is now the hottest thing since sliced bread. Mike I still give you props for showing me Twitter back in February of 2008. You knew what you were doing! :) Anyway, things are good but super busy. In the last Month I have organized two field trips for my kiddos. One was to the Ecotarium for 3-6 grade. I set-up the trip, planned our itinerary, organized chaperon es, and did all the paperwork for parents. The trip was pretty cool. We were able to see a polar bear which kiddos in Nelson have never seen, and they really enjoyed the weather tents and the otters. A BIG disappointment was the planetarium. We were ready to watch a cool show in the dome theater, but instead we saw 2 dimensional charts on the dome while our presenter stood in front of us and talked. She never showed anything more than a 5 minute clip of solar flares and solar storms and we were there for 45 minutes! BOO!! Our second field trip was a whole school trip that I organized to the Humane Society. The kiddos had been working on our school theme of "caring for animals" and also reading incentive. As their reward I though taking them to read to the pets at the humane society would be a nice way to bring everything together. The kiddos loved it. I had the Keene Sentinel come and they wrote up an article and took some great pictures. It was fun, but alot of work. In the works, I have scheduled a trip to the Boston Science Museum. We are going for an extended school day and we have a trip into the butterfly room and a Omni show on the coral reefs in store! I am contemplating adding the planetarium while we are there too, but they also need time to explore the museum!
Other school happenings include our puppetry performance where the kiddos made their own wooden puppets, decorated their sets, and practiced their scripts. We had a great puppet show for parents. My third graders did THREE BILLY GOATS GRUFF and my fourth graders did THE THREE LITTLE PIGS. It was cute. We are approaching the end of our science fair work. Currently the kiddos are working on their reports. We have some cool projects like a mini-hot air balloon, a hovercraft that a person can ride in, algae growth, toffee making, colored flowers, and many more. Well not many more, we only have 12 kids! It is coming along well, but takes alot of time management.
We had a school auction where we asked for donations from the community. Last Saturday night I helped get the dessert table and beverages ready to go and then I sat down with my paddle. It was pretty fun. I bid on a haircut, a book, and dog biscuits. I only spent $60, but $18 was for the darn dog biscuits! : ) It was a good cause though. We raised $6809. I think that is amazing. The kiddos will be getting a new slide put in this summer. Yahoo!! So..in the works is a Pancake Breakfast and Dog Walk that I am organizing at school to raise money for the Humane Society. The school has beautiful Granite Lake right next door, so we will be walking our pets around the lake. I hope the weather holds up for us. Also, for the 6th grade trip fundraiser, my students will be working on organizing a school dance at the Town Hall. It has been a hit every year, so we are looking forward to taking this on. Photography club starts on Thursday, so I will be working with a group of kiddos on how to take nice digital photos. I loved doing this last year! I think that is the big stuff at school.
As for things at home, well I am still dreaming of Katie almost every night. She stops in to my dreams to relive an experience that we shared, or to let me know that she is around. It is pretty cool to see her all the time! Craig and I are working on making our yard look nice. He raked most of the yard and we are excited about planting bulbs, flowers, and grass seed. We have had some great spring days, but for the most part it has been rainy and we haven't seen the last frost yet. I continue to hit the gym, although not as consistently as I had hoped I would. I am getting back into it, but it was hard for awhile. I am just really busy and get tuckered out!
Craig is graduating soon from Keene and he is job hunting. This is fun, but stressful at the same time. You know me, always want to know what is coming up. I like to plan and when we don't know what is coming, I can't plan. I signed up to work on science work again this summer and I hope to get away to someplace warm and tropical as well. I think this is all for now. It is not written well and that is ok. It is Saturday morning and I am watching Phantom Gourmet, so my focus goes from cupcakes to blog, to fried chicken to blog...you get the point. If you never heard of it Phantom Gourmet is a show that showcases restaurants all over the Boston area. It is pretty sweet, but very frustrating as you need to drive 2 hours to eat at anything they show!!! : )
Anyway, I am off to Turners for a surprise b-day party and then Easter dinner with the family on Sunday. Happy Easter!!