Hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend! We had big, huge thunderstorms which I drove through to get to Matt and Diana Wagner's house. I was driving over after getting out of work(yeah actually double time pay for holidays!). At least the kids got a chance to swim in the afternoon before it started-and we actually got in the pool again after the tstorms finished. It was just raining, but we were already wet! And Cookie had her first swim lesson-she looked like a drowned rat all afternoon. She also chased a few ducks that like to try and get in the pool. We are working on her hunting skills. She still has trouble seeing the squirrels though! Maybe cause she is so short. We all certainly had a great time, but needed to get home since everyone was back on work/school schedule the next day.
Allison headed back to school with a math final which she aced. After that it was just a few more assignments, and she was done by Tuesday. Weds the entire 8th grade class headed to Hershey Park for a day of graduating fun. Fortunately the rain and traffic held off and they all had a great time. Thursday the kids participated in a retreat for the day at our sister parish, St Paul(small church in Olde Ellicott City where Babe Ruth was married). Friday was the last day-the kids had a mass in the morning which I attended followed by the 8th grade awards. Allison won for going up and receiving the most certificates-about 9 in all. She has been involved in most of the afterschool clubs(scrapbook and crochet, writing club), as well as the Science Fair, altar server, safety patrol, NJHS, and she even won a certificate for highest grade in her math class this year-Algebra I, and her Religion class too. After their awards, the 8th grade headed off for pizza with their Kindergarten buddies, and then spent the afternoon playing outside games with the little ones. I of course hung around to help out. We were chased inside about 1hr early with another batch of tstorms. The kids were stuck watching movies the rest of the afternoon. That evening, fortunately it stopped raining enough for the entire 8th grade class to enjoy a pool party at one of their classmates house. The Dad is the VP for underarmour, so you can imagine the size of the house! Plenty of room for everyone. The kids had a great time, even in the rain. On Saturday we took Allison out to dinner for graduation at her favorite(and Scott's too)-the Japanese steak house. She even got a big(free) slice of cheesecake for her special day. Today we are headed over to a graduation brunch before Allison heads out to another graduation pool party. At least today is nice and sunny. She had an early start serving mass and was up late Saturday night since our neighbors dropped by to watch the Red Wings game(first win for Red Wings in the Stanley cup playoffs against Pittsburgh). Guess we are watching another game tonite. Allison will have to catch up with her sleep since she goes into school early Monday morning to practice for graduation. The ceremony is at 7pm this Monday night. Fortunately we have the dress from confirmation, and Allison was given a white gown last week. And yeah the shoes fit with no pinching. They had to practice walking up the aisles of church last week in their new shoes. So she is good to go. Now we just have to pick up a few presents for teachers. Scott still has another week and a half to go-he has been busy taking lots of tests the past few weeks too. I had my own assignment at work to present on Weds. I was asked to give a presentation to the Low Vision support group and another to our Independent residents at Charlestown. I asked the tv station to tape me so they could just run my lecture(save me having to set up two presentations!). I can always do a live interview with the tv station at a later date. Now I have to set up a lecture on What do OTs actually do? for the MDs. That should be more fun. As I said, we do not have a manager, and the administrators that are filling in decided I needed to round up more business, so they are having me market our out patient program. I really have enough trouble fitting everyone in my schedule as it is! Next week I am switching my days off so I can run Allison off to the graduation rehearsal and pick her up. At least we got her hair cut-now it is my turn! And someday we need to get the dog's hair cut too(she really does look like a mini polar bear). She also has an orthodontist appt next week for new retainers. Her old set doesn't fit anymore since she grew some new teeth and a piece chipped off the bottom. We are getting a new invisalign set made. And I finally located a dentist to fill the kids cavities-but they say nothing is available until after July 1! And then I need to get their physicals for summer camp.
Looks like Allison's class was officially cancelled-couldn't find two other kids to join, even though I emailed school and the girl scouts. I will probably have to redo her schedule-maybe a field hockey camp. She would like to try it out. She is still working on piano and karate. Guess the Vice Principal nixed her chance to play Pomp and Circumstance for the graduation ceremony. They decided they wanted her to process instead and they couldn't figure out how to squeeze it into their program. At least her classmates have heard her play it in class, and her school music teacher. Her piano teacher was disappointed though since she said Allison worked so hard and she played it so well. We will have to video tape that one and send it on.
I am also trying to pack up for a GS camping trip this weekend. It should be a lot of fun-we are staying at a Boy Scout camp and the theme is Oceanography. I had Tom drill holes in about 60 seashells for the girls to make little swaps(something with our Troop name on it and ocean theme). We will probably hot glue in some pearls and pin on our Troop name, or turn them into necklaces. And my coleader is tie dying shirts for us to go along with the blue denim hats I bought for us to wear(very ocean theme oriented). Each girl has an assignment to do beforehand too. Allison is in charge of putting together a story about Blue Crabs(yum)! We are actually staying at a boy scout camp and we will be spending a lot of time in the water. Glad to see the weather is supposed to be good. And I should be home in time for us to go to the Capital Jazz Fest!
So Happy Graduation to Allison! Tomorrow we will be at her school in the evening for the ceremony and then a reception to follow. Now if I can just remember to buy her a year book! Kathleen

Happy Post-Memorial Day Everybody!

I have briefly taken control of the Baltimore Seitz Blog to post Allison's piano recital. On Saturday we drove to Columbia (Maryland, not South America) to listen to AJ play some tunes on a piano. Of course, she did great! As somebody that barely has enough musical talent to play a CD, I am amazed what Allison can do with a piano.


Yesterday we went to Matt and Di's house for some pool party action. We got quite a bit of swimming in before the rains came. Matt went crazy with cooking - we had ribs, chicken, bratwurst, and delicious crab dip. I felt like I was in one of those Roman parties they talk about when describing gluttony. When we recover from our food coma, I'm sure we will be ready for some "low carb damage control".

Of course, with the rains came some power outages. As is par for the course in Maryland, when the power surges, we lose major appliances. This time it was the entire heating and cooling system. Being cheap, I cracked open the furnace and took a look. Looks like a burnt control wire. Kind of smells like barbecued dog inside the furnace. After I make sure that my accidental death and dismemberment insurance is paid up, I'll go back and take a whack at soldering the wire back onto its post. I'm not sure, are furnaces 240V or 480? I guess that really only impacts the size of the spark - plus I think that the crazy Einstein hair look is all the rage nowadays anyway.

I got a call today from one of the science fair judges. Apparently he felt bad that Scotty did not win the overall Science fair. Since Scotty is my son, he felt it would be unethical for him to "win", but he wanted me to know that Scott gave the best overall demonstration, and clearly understood the content best. Plus, he had explosive soda reactions ! how cool is that? Let's see if I can upload the video.

Happy Memorial Day Weekend! Unfortunately, I plan on working the holiday, but fortunately I get paid double time! So while my family plans to go off and see the Night at the Museum movie, I will be slaving away. We are supposed to have a rainy Memorial Day, so today we are visiting the neighbors with the pool. Last night we enjoyed Allison's piano recital and went out to dinner afterwards. We then stopped into our neighbors house for dessert and chit chat. Their neice was visiting since she is doing a college internship in Harper's Ferry for the summer which is about an hour or so drive from Baltimore.
And speaking of neices, Happy Belated Birthday to Stacey Seitz. We cannot believe she hit the Big 21!( we remember those days-oh boy do we ever). I was just surprised I missed putting that date on my yearly calendar. It is on there now. And a Big Happy 12th Birthday to Christopher Bozyk in Texas. I really am putting together some Birthday packages for the cousins-just waiting on a signature. Hint Hint. And we hope Stacey is having a fun, informative and safe visit to Nicaragua. Stacey is volunteering at an orphanage with fellow nursing students. What an awesome experience.
We have been keeping our volunteer experiences a little closer to home. On Friday, my day off, I went into school with a few other parents and we supervised Allison and the other kids from the National Junior Honor Society as they made pb and J sandwiches and put together lunches for the homeless in downtown Baltimore. The NJHS decided to complete a service project for the year. Most of the school had already made and assembled the lunches on Thursday and we just had a few more groups to finish up on Friday morning. All together the kids packed about 700 lunches. I then filled my van with about 250 of those lunches and delivered them downtown to Our Daily Bread-the new Catholic charities shelter that provides education, job counseling, medical care, food and shelter to the homeless of Baltimore. They were overwhelmed with the amount of food we dropped off. Then on Friday evening, the cub scouts traveled to our local National cemetery where we all placed flags at the headstones, followed by a small ceremony with retired servicemen and women. The kids also had a very nice memorial service on Friday at school with a guest military speaker. We feel all patriotic. Last year Allison and I marched with the GS choir in the Annapolis Memorial Day parade, and sang God Bless America at a special military ceremony held after the parade. The guest speaker that day was Pat Sajak from the game show Wheel of Fortune. He really gave a wonderful speech about being thankful for all our military and how much they sacrifice for all of our freedoms. Since the naval academy is situated in Annapolis, the ceremony was even more special, and they brought in a few naval ships there at the pier. That was an amazing experience, but I guess we were not needed this year. Instead we are scheduled to march in a local Fourth of July parade this year. Same with the baseball games; last year we got to sing the National Anthem at the Orioles stadium, but this year they just want the scouts to act as the color guard. So we are scheduled to sing the Nat. Anthem at the Frederick Keys baseball game-minor league baseball. But that should be fun too. I guess you can picnic out on the lawn near left field and watch the game. They also have a merry go round for the kids. And our last volunteer project this week was with my Girl Scouts as they finished up their Silver Award volunteer hours providing babysitting to the parents as they attended the last Parent/teacher meeting for the year. The girls are busy putting together a report to earn their Silver Award pins, but they each received a certificate in a small ceremony this past week with our local GS council. Now it is on to the Gold Award-equal to the Boy Scouts Eagle. My girls will be moving up to Senior Girl Scouts for the next two years, and Scott will be a Weebelo I.
We had plenty of activities to keep us busy this week. While Allison and I were at the Silver Award ceremony on Thursday night, Tom was busy at school running the Science Fair. We still only had a small participation rate-about 15 kids, however, this is just voluntary and we are still pushing for the school to take on the project and make it mandatory for all the classes, just like most of our public schools in the area. We were excited to see that Scott's teacher, Mr Will had both of his 3rd grade classes participate in a science experiment and put together a poster presentation for the event. So most of the week, Scott and Allison were scrambling to organize all their data and poster boards(along with a bit of help from Mom and Dad). Scott studied the mentos in a bottle of diet coke-it makes a great fountain! Allison videotaped, so Tom edited the tape and put it on display with Scott's presentation. Allison did research on why spiders do not stick to their webs, and bugs do. We even ran out and caught a spider to add to her presentation. Sadly, Allison was not present at the Science Fair to explain her project since she was getting her Silver Award(we can't do everything!). The kids did a great job and everyone loved Allison's and Scott's presentations.
This was a big week for school work for AJ especially. Last weekend besides working on the science fair presentations, Allison was busy assembling a prayer and picture scrapbook for religion class, as well as writing a paper on the meaning of Memorial Day and a book report. She also had her Language Arts final on Friday, so we were busy studying about 60 vocab words and I had her reread all her short stories-about a dozen or more. Then her science teacher decided to add a last lab report on weather as well as a test on Friday. She survived with flying colors and now is busy studying for her Math final scheduled for Tuesday. Then she is done with classwork. Next week she is off to Hershey Park with the 8th grade class for the day. And also an all day religious retreat. On friday she will participate in an award ceremony at school. Then on Monday, June 1st it is graduation day! She also has a few parties to attend next weekend.
We had to run out and get her some more shoes-she already outgrew her dress shoes from Easter. At least we have her dress from Confirmation. And Scott needed summer sandals. I was just glad to find him some.
And it was time for medical appts. Our cat PiKa had her check up on Friday. She needed her yearly shots and exam. The vet techs were very impressed with how healthy she is for a 9yr old cat. They had a new vaccination and a new way to administer it too-no needles, just a strong blast of air that sends the vaccination into her skin. She was not too thrilled with the application, it was like a small air rifle going off on her hindquarters, but I bet my kids would like that instead of needles! Star Trek is not too far away!
But not soon enough for the kids. They had a dental cleaning and got their first cavities! YucK! Allison has a small one in a back molar, but Scott has a big one in a baby tooth. Sadly, noone in our dental office will fill kids cavities, and they told Tom to find a pediatric dentist. When I called for referrals, I got 3 that our insurance covers in all of Baltimore. One dentist no longer works, that left two, so I checked with Cigna to see if they had an updated list. The reps said our kids don't qualify since they are over 7yrs old, so now we are back to square one hunting down a dentist! And on top of that my microwave decided to die, so we sent Tom out for a replacement. He said none of the local stores had many in stock-we would have to wait 6 weeks or more for delivery. I cannot hardly live a day without the microwave-so he ended up getting a GE. I was not too crazy about the features, but at least we have one. I do not know how companies think they will stay in business if they don't work on stocking their shelves or provide better customer service. I called a local county office to get some info and had to wait for the woman to call me back 30 mins later because they were busy having a party! Right in the middle of the afternoon! So sorry to bother them during work hours. Tom said he went to pick up pizza the other night, and the cashier interrupted the order so he could answer a personal phone call on his cell. And people wonder why we are having a recession. Everyone wants all the rewards, but noone wants to work for it.
And I am busy hunting down a replacement summer class for Allison. She was signed up for a High School prep class when public school got out, but only 3 kids signed up and they are cancelling due to low enrollment. And it was a two week class. Guess all the kids in Howard County are too smart and too well prepared for High School. I am desperately searching for two kids to sign on. If not I will have to try and put together another schedule for her for June. I tried to get her into a volunteer position for girl scouts for Day Camp, but they have all the help they need. Sadly, there is another class in August, but we plan on having Allison visit her Grandparents when that class is running. And the college wouldn't attempt to see if any of the kids in the second session would consider signing up for the first session. Guess they don't need the money either. I will probably end up cancelling the classes for Allison altogether if she does not get into the High School prep class. But it drives me crazy since I made this summer schedule back in February and scheduled my Girl Scout trip around the classes and other camps. And to top it off, the college had Scott's name on every one of Allison's classes. Never a dull moment.
So I am off to write up my own presentation that I have to do this coming week at work. Since we do not have a manager at work, we have been working under the two administrative staff that really don't have a clear picture on the daily structure of a rehab clinic. To top it off, the state was in at our nursing home/rehab unit last week doing their annual review(always a nightmare). They will probably be there a few weeks. I have to present to our Low Vision support group on Weds. They want me to do two presentations, so I am hoping our inhouse tv station will videotape me and run it on the inhouse tv station. If not, I will have to do another presentation, probably a live tv interview. Like I don't have anything else to do-(like maybe treating patients). The administrators did not think I had a big enough caseload and they want me to round up more business. They would also like me to do a presentation to our physicians on what services I provide in outpatient OT. Right now I have so many people I do not know where to put them all. But it is always like that-either too busy or a bit slow. I prefer the slow periods so I can get caught up!
And by the way, Ellicott City recently was listed in the newspaper as number 17 out of the top 25 cities to live in the US-I guess we have lots of diversity for a small city. Not to mention Howard County is one of the top 10 most prestigious/expensive counties in the US as well. That is all our hard earned tax dollars at work.
Talk to you next week! Kathleen

Glad we got our yard work done early this weekend before the rain came. Tom spent Friday cutting the front lawn-I got the back. He finished putting down all our mulch and I spent Saturday afternoon edging our long sidewalk along the side of our house. I bought myself an old fashioned edger-I can't quite handle the power edger, and Tom thinks that expending energy to put square edges on the perimeter of the lawn is a waste of time! I had lots of encouragement from the neighborhood while I labored away and I think it looks great. I think I filled an entire trash can with grass and dirt! Then Allison and I had to go hunt down a spider web and capture it for her science fair project. She and Tom are looking at the web under a microscope he got from work and they are analyzing the web-why do bugs stick but spiders do not. We are short on time though-the Science Fair is this week. Scott needs his poster put together with all his data from last weeks experiment.

Probably good that it is going to be another wet day. We just keep getting rain showers this month of May-which is probably a good thing for the plants and lawn and our water supply, but makes it hard to plan outdoor activities. Our cub scout camping trip was completely canceled for this Spring. And I completely missed getting Scott to his last Cub Scout pack meeting-he was supposed to move up to a Weebelo I. He will still move up, he just missed all the hoopla. At least I got his new patch put on his shirt. Even though he is getting a new shirt next year. I still have a girl scout camping trip scheduled the first weekend in June. Should be fun from the list of activities scheduled. I had to attend an orientation meeting last week and I am amazed at the number of activities scheduled for one weekend. And all for GS from kindergarten through high school. Amazing. I can't even imagine the planning. This particular GS unit is run by our Choir Leader, Dr Pat. Not only is she a physician, but she has her own troop, she is the manager of her service unit, and her daughter is getting married in a few weeks! But that hasn't slowed her down from scheduling a million activities for the girls. I don't know how she does it. I don't think Allison and I will be marching in the Annapolis Memorial Day parade this year. I plan on working that day. (extra cash). But we probably will be participating in the Flag ceremony with the boy scouts at the cemetery(when we place flags on all the veteran's graves). And Allison is busy writing an article about Memorial Day. Apparently the holiday was all but forgotten until the Boy and Girl Scouts started placing the flags at the grave sites. I even tried to schedule a trip to the airport this past week so we could pass out our Girl Scout cookie donations to arriving US Troops. Sadly, the flight was bumped up to 515 and I just couldn't get home and pick up all the girls and the cookies and get there at that time. I will have to keep an eye out for future flights. It is hard to find a time that works for everyone.

I thought I would have time since I went to a class that day and got out a bit early. But I also had a doctor's appt and couldn't get to the airport early. And my co-leader had to get her daughter to a dance class.
I did enjoy my shoulder class though, but it would have been nicer if the hotel and instructor had scheduled a better room for us ahead of time. We had to sit in a closet, all 53 of us, for 2 1/2 hours before they had our room set up. No overheads, and the instructors book was in transport with Fed Ex. Bad planning. But I learned that I have been doing the right treatment for those rotator cuff shoulder injuries and laser will be the next upcoming tx. Right now the laser unit costs 25,000 so I don't think our company will be providing any laser tx any time soon.
I think the hotels were packed this week with horse racing fans. Maryland hosts the second race in the Triple Crown. And Baltimore gets busy. I caught the end of the race on Saturday-a filly named Rachel Alexandra took the prize. Guess it was a big surprise. But the fate of horse racing in Baltimore is sketchy. The Canadian owners of the race track filed for bankruptcy. Not sure who will buy it, but the owners of Under Armour(Baltimore company) was looking at the possibility of taking over the track.
We had an early start to our weekend since the kids had a half day on Thursday and then Friday off. The kids participated in sports day at school on Thursday-we notice they cut it down to half a day, and the 8th graders did not get to participate(we don't know why). They also stopped providing the free lunch. Instead they sent the kids home. Our very nice neighbor picked up Allison and Scott and took them and her kids to see the Disney Earth movie(they all enjoyed it). On Friday, I mistakenly went in to work(figured I make up some time for missing last week with my infected eye). I got stuck working later than planned and was late getting Allison to her earlier scheduled piano lesson. Tom was out with Scott-he decided to take him to see Star Trek. My son has a new hero, Scotty the Star Trek Engineer. Scott went out and bought the transporter with Scotty action figure figure at Target with a Christmas gift card he was holding onto. And Tom and Scott have been visiting Burger King a lot picking up all the Star Trek toys. Now Tom wants the Enterprise model from Target. Scott even put together a "power rocket scooter" for a Social Studies project he is completing this coming week. His class had to come up with a product and then make a magazine ad for the product, plus this week they will be filming a commercial in school.
These last few weeks of school seem to be dedicated to projects and papers. Allison has about 3 or 4 papers to write, and her finals coming up next week-a language arts final and math final. Allison will be graduating on June 1st, so they have a lot to cram in. The week before they will be headed to Hershey Park for a day, and also a day spent on a religious retreat. Not much time left! She has been busy with her homework, and preparing for her piano recital next weekend. And she wants to play pomp and circumstance for her class graduation ceremony. She did find time this weekend to do some babysitting(yeah income). And she attended an overnight birthday party, besides getting to karate. We have been so busy running around, we forgot to take Scott to his karate class on Friday. I think we are a bit too busy. Oh well, just wait until next week! Hope you are all enjoying your spring! Kathleen and Family

Dear Family and Friends-Hope everyone had a Happy Mother's Day! Tom and the kids got me a gift card to LL Bean-now I can get some shoes. I could really use a new wheelbarrow to dump all those leaves. I know Mom Bozyk and Mom Seitz got their chocolate covered fruit gift boxes. Sounds good to me! Hope you both enjoyed them. (It sure beats flowers.) I had to send Mom Bozyk her gift a little earlier since they were headed to norther Michigan. I have to call more often since their computer system died and now they don't have any email unless they travel to the library. Mom and Dad Seitz are planning on traveling back to Indy after this week-I am sure Dad Seitz can't wait to get back to cutting the grass.
I crazily invited two other families over for dinner Sunday night to celebrate Mom's Day. I thought it was a bit sad that we were all sitting home that night while the Dads and kids attempted to think of what to cook and then have to clean up their mess anyway. I thought it would be much more fun to all get together after I do all the cooking and then I clean up the mess for a whole bunch of people! I didn't really mind having all those people over though since it got my house cleaned up by the kids, and we had more than enough food which should last all week. I know I spent enough time at the grocery store. I tossed some ribs into the crock pot and the big baking potatoes into the oven, so at least I didn't have to slave over the stove all day. Tom and Allison took on the challenge of baking chocolate bread pudding-we have enough left over to feed the rest of the neighborhood. I think Tom cut up three large loaves of french bread. I trialed making a dipping olive oil appetizer with the rest of the leftover bread crusts(direct recipe from Carrabas Italian restaurant). The guests couldn't get enough of that-and we all shared the food responsibilities. Someone brought corn and mac and cheese, and the other family brought salad and wine. So all in all it was alot of fun-but of course as I mentioned someone has to get hurt at our get togethers. This time Scott got smacked in the back of the head with a swing from the same boy who had his nose bit by our gerbil during our last party. Guess he had payback in mind. And then we were too busy to catch the Red Wings game or the Trump Apprentice grand finale. I guess Joan Rivers won. Good for her. I was passed out in bed by the time the show was ending. And Red Wings won-yeah.
Last week I had to stay home since my right eye swelled up like someone punched me. I was sent to an eye specialist since all three medical clinics we go to were packed with sick people all thinking they had swine flu. Turns out I had a bacterial infection and had to put a steroidal cream on my eye for a week. I may have picked up something doing all the yard work last weekend. Of course, that didn't stop me from getting out in the yard again this past weekend. After 11 days the rain finally stopped long enough for me to cut the grass and start raking leaves again! I should be done by the fall when I can start again. This weekend I decided to clean out my flower and veggie garden. Then I spent most of the weekend picking out flowers and veggies at Home Depot. I planted flowers in all my patio pots and brought home some tomatoe and zuchinni plants. I am so excited that I can plant veggies in the backyard now that we have the fence. It should keep the deer out and let us enjoy some tomatoes this time. I just wish I could have enjoyed my lilacs a little longer-the rain knocked all the blossoms off. Now I am waiting for the peonies and azalaes to bloom. I also had to trim more bushes and clean up so Tom could spread the mulch in the beds. He is convinced that the nursery shorted him a couple of yards. He doesn't think we have enough to cover all our flower beds. In between yard work, we managed to get out and have some fun.
Tom and I caught the opening of the new Star Trek movie on Friday-we really enjoyed it. And on Saturday we had the last of my theatre tickets that Tom got me for Christmas. We went to see the Billy Joel musical, Movin Out which we decided was terrible. We enjoyed the music of course, but there was no speaking on the part of the cast-just badly performed ballet! And afterwards when we headed across for a late dinner at a local irish restaurant, the whole cast showed up and sat next to us. We couldn't even make fun of their show during dinner! But we did like the music and the drinks.
Tom also spent the weekend helping Scott complete his science experiment-exploding soda with mentos candy. We were the hit of the neighborhood since we did all the experiments out in the street in front of our house. Everyone had to stop and take a look. Next week Allison has to finish her experiment. She was busy finishing up her last Confirmation training class. She was paired with a high school boy and they have to present a 45 min discussion on Love(oh great). I told her she should make up a Jeopardy game for the kids to play with the Love theme(besides the prayers and movie clips). Should be good. They have all summer to work on the project, and then she will be attending the 8th graders retreat in the fall and acting as a peer. She really has been enjoying the experience, and it will help her keep in touch with classmates when she goes off to high school. We are still busy with piano lessons and karate lessons too. Allison has a piano recital at the end of the month and hopes to play the graduation march for her class on June 1st. Speaking of graduations, I see some MSU friends of ours have a daughter graduating from Eastern Michigan -I can't believe they have a college grad. We just have an elementary school grad. How about you Sarah Bozyk? Prom? Graduation? Mark and Linda Seitz know a few college grads as well. Time flies. And we celebrated a few birthdays this past weekend, including Mark Seitz(Happy Bday again Mark) and our next door neighbor celebrated her bday the same day as Mark. Busy day.
I also had my last girl scout Leader meeting on Weds and my girls provided the babysitting service that night. I had a little trauma when I discovered that I may have to cancel my end of the year GS trip to Williamsburg/Busch Gardens. The public school extended their school year by a week due to snow days-right on top of my already scheduled trip with the girls. My Resurrection girls will be done with school by then, but the two public school girls would be missing 1/2 days. Apparently girl scouts frowns upon scheduling trips when school is in session. Of course, when I scheduled school was not in session. And most of the girls will be done. I had one parent complain and that is all it took, but she decided she may just pull her daughter for one day and join us. Boy was that a relief. It is a scheduling nightmare! Now I am trying to get the girls to finish up their paperwork for the Silver Award ceremony next week. And this week we are heading to the airport to pass out our GS cookies to the returning service men and women.
Hope you all had a great Mom's Day! Talk to you all next week!Kathleen and family