Jared's Big Day!

I've spent the last couple of weeks adjusting to being a stay at home mom. I figured I would start by spring cleaning my house in preparation for family coming for Jared's baptism. It's been so nice to be able to slow down and concentrate on things that really matter. I can already see a difference in our family. I hear more laughter and talking, it really is true, "if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy." It's not that I don't think I was happy before, but I was always rushing around, trying to get things done. Now I'm still trying to get things done, but it's not quite such a race. On Saturday Jared will be getting baptized, I've spent the last week going through his pictures and realizing how grateful I am for him. He is our comic relief as well as our button pusher, boundary jumper, freedom fighter, activities coordinator, dreamer, and artist. I couldn't imagine our family without him!

Reading Parade Float

So the PTO (PTA) decided that all of the teachers should make a float advertising what their classes favorite book was. The teachers were given a month to work on it and told to use their room mothers to help. Being a room mom myself, I got the great task to make a float for the book, "Sideways stories, from Wayside school" it's about a school that was originally supposed to be 1 story tall with 30 classrooms but was built sideways so it is now 30 stories tall. The book is about the children on the 30th floor. Each chapter tells the story of one of the kids in the class. Jared was "Todd" who talks too much (as much as the other kids, but unfortuantely gets caught) so is sent home everyday on the kindergarten bus. Along with the float theme I used a moving box and tissued papered it for each floor then used bigger boxes for the 30th floor, then I had the kids color a picture of their student, and then on the day of the parade they dressed up. It turned out really good and the kids had fun, even though we didn't win anything. Some of the other classrooms did some fun things too.

Secret Garden




Jared's float
Bennett's class float

Charlottes Web