Happy St Patrick's Day! Allison and I started celebrating early as we marched in a St Patty's parade with the GS choir on Saturday morning. We were busy singing Tura Lura Lura and the Rattlin' Bog. This year they put us behind a car advertising a Relay for Life Marathon and everyone was busy passing out balloons and candy(which is a little distracting for our youngest choir members). But better than last year when we were behind a military group that kept shooting off guns, scaring our girls to death! While we were busy marching and singing, Tom and Scott were busy with the cub scouts racing his Pinewood derby masterpiece, the Wiimobile. Scott and Tom were going for cool car award this year, with a lifelike looking Wii remote control car, including lights that worked with a push of a button. However, the car was just fast enough to take 3rd place-so now Scott has a collection of trophies from 1st, 2nd and-3rd place which he won starting in 1st grade(1st place) second grade(2nd place) and 3rd grade(3rd place). He already has his design for next year and says he wants to go for speed again(he has his eye on the grand champion trophy!) Allison and I made it back from our parade in time to watch Scott's car race in the finals. Usually Allison asks for her own car for the sibling races, but Tom was a little too busy helping our neighbor with his son's car this time. She'll live-just no new patch for her vest this year. She was not even asked to help at the snack shop(which she loves). Today, we have choir practice in the afternoon-getting ready for our spring performances. They are bribing us with ice cream today. I had Scott home with me on Friday-he had a bit of a stomach ache-looks like he is over it now. He was pretty wiped out though on this weekend. And of course I did not get as much done as I needed to do. I did manage to get my eyes tested and bought my first pair of glasses! Poop! I guess I am getting old. I blame the computer on my blurry vision-I feel like I spend more time at work typing on the laptop now then I do treating my patients(per work guidelines!). Although statistically, I do not spend enough time typing(per work guidelines). Work is always concerned about our productivity(how much time we spend treating patients in a day). I had the highest productivity in our rehab dept in January-I will have to see how Feb and March turn out. I have been pretty busy and putting in a few long days, but I did take time out this week to join a few GS choir members that came to Charlestown(my retirement community where I work) and put on a GS Birthday celebration for retired GS leaders. We had about 15 ladies attend, complete with birthday cake(and GS cookies) and historical photos and pins/uniforms and patches from the Baltimore area. Most of our ladies are from MD or DC or the New York area. I joined a few members of our choir to sing a few songs at the event, and we had plenty of photographers and videotapers on site to record our event. It was a very nice presentation.
The kids brought home wonderful report cards this week-their hard work paid off. But no letting up on the studying and tests. Allison actually did an excellent job on her Science Test this week even though her study time was limited due to our GS overnight at the mall on Saturday. We had some sleep to catch up on this past week. And we still had to go to puppy school last week-no class this week as our teacher was out running a marathon. No piano since our music teacher was performing in a musical and Scott did not make any of his gymanstics or karate classes since he did not feel well. Gave me more time to stay home and sign up for more activities coming up in the following months. I did manage to get pup pup to another vet visit for more vaccinations. And we have been busy looking for a place to board her while we are in Florida this Easter visiting with Mom and Dad Seitz. I am having a bit of a problem since she is so young and has not yet had all her vaccinations. Good luck to us finding a place. I do have someone watching the house along with the cat and gerbils, but they are pretty self sufficient. And most of our neighbors will be gone at Easter as well. This is a whole new experience for us. Puppy needs a bit more attention than the cat. I definitely decided we have a Garfield/Odie relationship going on here though. We are also getting a little better with housetraining(not as many accidents!) And Cookie seems to enjoy her new backyard(now that it is fenced in again thanks to Tom).
Spring is definitely in the air-we have had rain and somewhat warmer temps that coaxed my flowers up out of the ground. Sadly, looks like the bunnies are enjoying them the most-just when the crocuses opened, the flowers lives were cut short by little nibblers. Same with my tulips. There is hope for the daffodils. I did spray on some animal- be- gone, but of course it rained the next day. I think these critters would eat rat poison and not even flinch!