by Kelli Bowen
It’s that time of year again: when the winter isn’t over, but the summer is almost here, the ACTIVITIES are ramping up and registration signups are everywhere!
If I don’t have it in my calendar, it doesn’t exist folks. I check my calendar every weekend and go over “the week’s plan” with Hubby. Last week I had an appointment or meeting every day.
Miss E loves band and choir so she participates in the Young Musician’s Festival, but this year it was scheduled on the school’s ONE snow day this winter. The one-day festival has been rescheduled into three partial-day performances, so I’m adding going to the school to watch Miss E perform to my roster.
The girls are registered for soccer. We are still having the great baseball versus softball debate. I’m stalking the Parks website like a druggie waiting for their next hit as I’m waiting for swimming lessons to open up.
We’ve been fundraising: oh the fundraising! Puffins, and Kirk’s Heart Challenge, and 4-H fruit, and steak fry, and raffle tickets, oh the raffle tickets! Wait…raffle tickets?? Shoot!! We forgot the dang raffle tickets.
As we fill out our books of tickets we “sold,” please remember "activities parents" are just trying to hold it together as we go from quiet winter to end-of-school and welcome summer craziness!
Now hand me a pen. I have a lot of tickets to fill out.
Kelli makes her home in Cass County with her husband, two daughters (11 and 8) and two dogs. She works for a regional seed company by day and tries to be an alright mom, wife, friend and writer by night.
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