This past week was good. My FCCLA club donates freezer meals to the Ronald McDonald House every year and we got that project done this past week. I also have my Child Development classes hold a class baby shower just for fun and I have my students bring diapers to donate to the community. I dropped off a few hundred diapers to a diaper ministry. It was nice to cross that off my list. 

Piper had her long awaited oral surgery. She's been pretty stressed about it for a few months. I told her she didn't have a choice and she gave in but she did milk me for extra bribes like trips to Subway and Boboa. She opted to not be put under. She's never even had a cavity before so it was the first time she's ever had a shot in her mouth. They let me go back with her while she got numbed and then I had to leave. She did great and the surgery wasn't as bad as she thought it would be. She's handling the recovery really well. Her tooth wasn't coming down so the oral surgeon cut into her gums and attached a bracket and a chain so her orthodontist can help pull her tooth down. I'm glad it's done. Piper's been freaking out about it for awhile. 

Gabby got to go to Washington for a track meet. They took the bus and stayed in a hotel as a team. I'm glad she got to have that experience. That's fun for her! Corbin just missed the cut off by .2 seconds so he wasn't able to go.

I found out I do not have to teach Fashion and Textiles next year and I'm so happy about that! We have 4 more weeks of school. We can do it!

 

I ordered picture frames and printed pictures from the wedding and put them on the wall. The pictures printed a little dark, but other than that, I'm happy with them. I have 5 weeks left of school, and I'm excited to be done, although I'm already a little worried about getting bored over the summer. We went to the track meet at Centennial on Friday. It was Senior Night, the last home meet. They highlighted all of the runners. I took a video, but the announcer kind of messed up Corbin's recap, so I'm not going to bother posting it. Corbin is planning to live with me, attend the College of Western Idaho, and study Biology. He plans on being a PA. We will see how it all shakes out. I think being a PA would be a great job, but I also think going to trade school and being an electrician is a brilliant plan, with little debt, high demand, and high pay. 

Piper has been a naughty bumpkin. She has been slacking off on her online classes, and she hasn't been honest about it. I can't see her online classes' grades; she has an F in both. She has just not been doing her work for months. It's only her online classes that she's struggling with. I don't blame her, honestly. Online classes are brutal, but she has to get her work done! We have been working on getting caught up. She is staying with me an extra week so I can keep after her and make her get her crap together! Girl!

Corbin on Senior night, there were a lot more seniors, but I didn't get a good picture of them.

If I'm sitting, both dogs are usually with me.

I tried making homemade croissants. They are an endeavor. It takes many hours and several days. They didn't turn out quite right, but they still tasted amazing, like really, really amazing. 

Hutch is so funny, he always has a sad face, and he was just staring out the window. I took him on a walk straight away.

Ryan all mummied up!

My three barnacles: Piper, Charly, and Hutch.

My favorite childhood cereal that my grandma used to buy was called Corn Bran. I loved them! They stopped making them. I was telling John about it, and he secretly did some research and found this Puffins cereal that tastes just like Corn Bran. He drove to Whole Foods just to buy me some. So cute. Really overpriced, yummy childhood, cute husband, cereal.

 

We got our wedding pictures. Yay! I'm happy. There's enough good ones. John had the idea to get married somewhere other than the beach and the eloping company had these gardens as one of the venues. Done! It was such a beautiful location. I just loved everything about our wedding and trip. Short, sweet, and memorable and really more about the vacation and trip, but I'm really happy to have the wedding itself captured. Great, great, great! I'm working on getting pictures ordered. I can't wait to hang them up. 

There's not much to say, work is same old. I'm still waiting to hear if I have to teach fashion and textiles. I'm crossing my fingers and toes. I will need to figure out lesson plans and curriculum and I won't be able to steal it from my friend Roxanne because she didn't teach it. Again, fingers and toes. 

John and I went to see Gabby at her track meet Friday night and then both Corbin and Gabby on Saturday. We were there for 6 hours on Saturday. John is a better person than me. I wanted to skip but he motivates me to be a better person. He's just naturally more supportive than me I think and I'm a little selfish or a lot more selfish. I just have to put on my patient pants. 

I did yard work for a few hours last night. I'm so glad I did, it is pouring today. I would be so mad if I wasn't able to get the yardwork done. My neighborhood has a shared driveway and it was filled with weeds. I couldn't handle it and weeded it for an hour yesterday. We have very high HOA fees in my neighborhood and they used to do lawn care for the front yards and they stopped doing that and didn't decrease our fees and my neighbors don't take care of their yards. Stupid, stupid HOA's. If I'm going to pay that much money, we should have a pool or a decent looking neighborhood ya know? Whatever. I had a great time weeding, so why am I complaining. Alright, that's all.

 

I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since Hawaii. The first week back felt a little rough, not really getting a break during spring break and dealing with the 4-hour time change. Now I'm just trying to pace myself to the end of the school year. The end of the year feels so close and so far away. Every year, we find out where student numbers are and what our schedules will be. One of the FCS teachers who was full-time at Capital now has to travel between Capital and Boise High every day. Luckily, my numbers are good enough that I will be at Borah next year. I might have to teach Fashion and Textiles next year. I really hope not. Having 3 preps in a day is enough. Fingers and toes crossed, I can teach what I've already been teaching. 

Corbin and Gabby are in track again. They are sprinters, and they are fast! They are both in team relays. Corbin's 4X100-meter team got 3rd place at the last track meet, so that was exciting. Gabby barely got 2nd in her heat in the 100. I'm glad they are enjoying that. 

Boise is so beautiful in the spring. Flowering trees and flowers everywhere. Our Easter was pretty low-key. The kids still want me to hide their Easter baskets, and I did a very poor job hiding them, but still managed to stump Corbin and Piper for a few minutes, and that felt like an eternity with how easy the baskets were to find. Haha. I just made my traditional Easter dinner of pork chops, scalloped potatoes, green bean casserole, and deviled eggs. Ryan is not a fan, but everyone else likes it. You can't win them all!

My culinary class had pastry week, and they made homemade biscuits and berry turnovers. I've never been a big fan of biscuits, but I had my students make them, and they were dang good. I made my first batch ever, and they were a hit with my kids. My students also made berry turnovers, which are a little challenging with laminated dough and rolling and folding over and over again to get those delicious flaky layers. My turnovers were sooo good. My kids loved them. I should really eat some food with less saturated fat this week!

Better than they look!

Hutch thinks he's a lapdog. He's like a very heavy weighed blanket.