Happy Birthday to Dave

Dave is...
...SMART! (That's what attracted him to me in the first place -- well, his dimple helped, too.)
...42 today! Happy Birthday, Dave!
...creative and notices creativity in other people.
...well-rounded. He plays piano, designs websites, designs landscapes beautifully, plays trumpet, plays practice-chanter (he started learning the bagpipes, but then he had 5 kids and that slowed him down, some.)
...funny -- he's either making me mad by joking about something, or making me laugh or some combination of the two. He's also the life of the party and our friends always ask for him to join us in a game (even though he doesn't enjoy playing games he makes sure everyone else enjoys themselves.)
...generous (sometimes to a fault and shows the children mercy when I'm waiting for justice.)
...intuitive (I'm not saying he understands girl-nature, but he tries)
...a very hard worker.
...reliable (not a romantic-sounding quality, but a wonderful one when a girl runs out of gas on a regular basis and needs to call someone to come rescue her.)
...W*O*N*D*E*R*F*U*L!!

Pooh-love

Another kid falls to the adorable cuteness of pooh. We're batting 100 and 5 out of 5 kids at or before the age of 5 fall madly in love with Pooh! He could dance all day long to Pooh.

Sick Baby

Several of us have had a really bad cold for the last couple of weeks. About half of the kids haven't gotten it and both grown-ups have had relapses of it. The well kids wanted to make the baby feel better, so they put him in a rubbermaid tub with his bear and blanket and dragged him around the house. Those kids sure know how to make a fellow happy!

Non-spiritual thoughts during Lent

Lent is supposed to bring about spiritual thoughts from sacrifices given to God.

Granted, I'm recovering from a bad cold, but still. All I can think about is THIS!

http://teachingheartmom.blogspot.com/2008/10/candy-birthday-cake.html

When I sent the picture to Dave (who has his birthday 4 days after mine and this year mine falls on Holy Thursday and his on Easter Monday) he said, "Bummer you can't enjoy it until MY birthday!" Oh, he's a funny guy.

Now, one modification I'd like to make is that in the blog, they say to stuff the inside of the cake with styrofoam rings and glue the candy to the outside of the form--- I want the cake stuffed with CANDY. This is all so unspiritual for a mature woman of 40 (almost 41).

Spring is...

...getting to do school under a tree at the first sign of warm weather!

Cleaning Baby

We need all the cleaning help we can GET!

Co-op Planning Meeting

It's time to start planning for next year's co-op. Next week at my house, I'm hosting a planning meeting.

Requirements :
Moms
large Wipe-off board
snacks

Feel free to come late, we'll snack and visit the first half-hour.

The 7pm agenda will be :

• "Druthers and Necessaries" - Review this past year - likes & dislikes
• "The Perfect Co-op" - Brainstorming ideas
• "Sifting the wheat" - Sketching out the best and most do-able ideas
• "And the runners up are..." - Vote for your favorite ideas
• "Do you (state your name) take ...." - Get the first pick of coordinator position and age group
• "Warm, sunny days" - Park Day schedule for this summer