Sunny sunny Sunday

1. Watching baseball with Simon.
2. Bratwurst.
3. Playing baseball at the park.
4. Yardwork. Hard work.
5. Lynne and Don and David are here!!!! Yay!!!
6. Hot tubbing.

Hello Summer my old friend....

1. Slept till almost 10. Yes.
2. Hashbrowns. With cheese.
3. Cleaning out the car.
4. Shopping.
5. The mirror.
6. Fixing up the house.
7. Dinner.
8. Jack at the in-rents.
9. Up in the Air.

Last day. Until Tuesday.

1. The sunrise.
2. Cleaning up. Moving stuff around.
3. Stopping by at mom and dad's.
4. Joe and the gang for dinner.
5. Being outside.

And the prospect of sleeping in tomorrow.

33F

1. Sleeping in the second bed, with the window open, and a 5 year old.
2. Luxury of time... and finishing all my grading.
3. Saigon Cafe, noodle bowls, and paying for other people.
4. Dinner at the 'rents.
5. HOT TUB.
6. On the way home: "What if the whole world was made out of hot tubs?"
7. River Monsters. A family favorite.
8. My parents' backyard. Better than mine, when I lived there...
9. Kids coming by to say thanks.

Last Hump Day

1. Waking up.
2. Last day with kids. What an amazing year!!!
3. Walk and lunch. With Steve and the math boys.
4. Playing "war" with Jack - all about probability! And me, losing! :)
5. I LOVE my new house...
6. Si. He laughs at everything and nothing. It's soooo awesome!!!!

Take Me Out to the Ballgame

1. Waking up to rain. And then hail. And then thunder.
2. Jack singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
3. Playing "I'm gonna get you!" with Simon!

All before 7 am. It's gonna be a good day...

4. Organizing, cleaning and throwing stuff away at work.
5. Coming home for lunch, cleaning here too!
6. Graduation - sitting with Jeremy Koselak, Carolyn Derr ("bye Moron!") and Jeremy Joiner.
7. Cheering the grads on, and getting lots of hugs in the breezeway.
8. Dylan Kern's grad party.

Last Monday

1. Loved the sunrise colors...
2. Baby food party day!!!
3. IB Celebration.
4. Lots of hugs and handshakes today.
5. Freaking awesome clouds.

What happened to Sunday?

1. More graduation parties! Yay!
2. Dinner with the parents.
3. Watching Jack and Simon together - they're too much fun!
4. Sundays in general.
5. Heading into the last week of school...

Run to the Shrine Day!

1. Up early with Mom for the Run to the Shrine. We did so awesome! I finished in 48:15 (2 minutes under my goal), and Mom finished in 1 hour 10 minutes, 10 minutes under her usual Minnesota time. Can't wait to do it again next year!
2. Breakfast at NED with Mom. Just the two of us!
3. Shopping with Mom. It was a me and Mom kind of day!
4. Graduation parties - what a blast!
5. Watching my boys have fun with so many good people.

Last Friday with Kids

1. Survivor spoof in 5th.
2. Chris and Anna. Yeah, right.
3. Reading some really awesome and touching reflections on the year. It's inspiring to remember how much we've done and how far we've come.
4. Nosh with the gang!
5. Setting the alarm for good and early.

One week left...

1. Morning time with Si.
2. Laughing at work - a case of the end of the year goofiness! :) In class and in the office!
3. Throwing stuff away. So cathartic.
4. Thunderstorms. And rain. And hail. From the 3rd floor.
5. Dinner. I love fish and rice and green beans. Especially green beans.
6. Reading books and laughing with Jackson. Biting each other on the neck playfully like snow leopards do...

Yearbook Day

1. The weather.
2. Throwing stuff away at work.
3. "I call him Duke when he's bad." - Jack, about Cheyenne, to Grandma Rewey.
4. My ladies in the Hen House. I love you!
5. The Biggest Loser.
6. The thunderstorm.

Yee Haw. Tuesday.

1. Waking up with Spiderman. And cuddling with Si. I love the morning-time, before I have to leave for work.
2. Hiring two awesome people for permanent positions today. Phew. That's a load off... :)
3. Thank you notes from seniors.
4. Glen Eyrie.
5. Two sleeping kids, baseball, and a glass of wine.

2nd to the last Monday

1. Turning that corner for the first view of Pikes Peak. And it was socked in.
2. The giggling that comes when kids are silently reading "A Modest Proposal", and they get to the top of the second page.
3. 5K.
4. Jack says, feeling the built in abs on his new Spiderman costume, "These are all Spiderman's boobs." Heh.
5. Staying up late with Si.
6. New sandals.

Not a SUNday

1. Baby in the bed.
2. Getting the house together.
3. GARAGE!!!
4. Dinner with my parents.
5. Survivor finale!
6. Ghetto booty!
7. That nap.

Yesterday was Saturday

1. Sleeping in a tiny bit.
2. Going up the cog.
3. Blizzard!!!
4. La Casita and carrot cake with family.
5. Dad's birthday - a good day.

The end of a two-week saga

1. Awesome clouds framing the Peak this morning.
2. Laughing with Laura and Tinka.
3. Reading great essays.
4. Palmer's Retirement Party. With Lindsay as my date.
5. Brokeback Mountain and a glass of wine.

Thurs

1. The beautiful, deep, dark gray clouds. Love 'em.
2. Diversity Day Training: "That doesn't make sense. They don't call them "collard people." That'd be offensive."
3. Working with awesome people.
4. Nothing calamitous happened today. YAY!!!!
5. Focus, by Schmoker.

Ok. Giving it a Go.

1. The clicking noise that Si makes with his 4 teeth and 1 tongue.
2. Having to (poor me) hang out with my kids all day.
3. Nice water heater man.
4. Watching baseball.
5. Grauple.
6. This wine that I'm a'drinkin. Thanks, Cindy!
7. The wind. This morning.
8. People who understand me.
9. Randomness. Cuz otherwise this would suck.

Wow. Ok. I can do this.

1. GREAT last PLC for the year.
2. Lunch with Jack. Just me and him.
3. Napping with kids, catching up on NCIS.
4. The wind.
5. Stephanie's having a girl!!!!!!!!!

Back to the Grind!

1. The sunrise this morning - so beautiful! I love that my bedroom window faces the east.
2. Lunch with Miles at La'aus.
3. Surprise visit from Nick!
4. The wind, and cooler weather.
5. Conversation over dinner.
6. Colleen and Char - mothers to be!
7. Mom at my house, when I got home.
8. Margarita out of Lando.
9. Baseball.
10. Matt. Couldn't have married a better man.

Mother's Day!

1. Waking up to the smell of Stargazer Lilies.
2. Morning on the upstairs deck with Boppy and the boys.
3. Nearly all day on the patio in the shade. We have such good space!
4. Dinner with Mel and the kids.
5. Billy Joel in concert. Again. Still!
6. Baseball in the park. I LOVE baseball in the park.

Mother's Day Eve

1. Finally got my space all carved out in the office. Can't wait to spend some time in there.
2. Hiking with Simon - great views, great rocks, great company!
3. Walking the path to G+G's while Jack scootered. Thinking about the day I walked the same part of that path when I was in labor with him.
4. Yummy dinner at G+G's! With Boppy!
5. Billy Joel in concert.

Fah-RI-day!!!

1. Walking into work with a smile on my face - working with Lindsay again!
2. Got some great work done!!!!
3. Simon's starting to feel better. Sheesh.
4. Relaxing evening at home.
5. Margaritas.

Thursday off. Again.

1. Playing "baseball" in the basement with Jack. With a drumstick and plastic vegetables. Homerun!!!!
2. Sitting on the deck with Si and Mom. And beer and Joe.
3. Half-pants.
4. Cardinals game, real time, in the middle of the day.
5. Steak and asparagus.

I have no idea what day it is...

1. My hair. Vain, but whatever.
2. Satire. Love it.
3. Semi-colons = condoms.
4. Hanging out with Mom and Si.
5. I love my house.

Oh yeah. And the metaphorical weight I lost today. Going in my scrapbook.

Tuesday = Good Day

1. Good PLC. Moving places.
2. New furniture!!!!
3. Beautiful weather today.
4. Cuddly kids.
5. TBL.

What a way to start the week...

1. We no longer have to speculate about where Osama bin Laden is, or what he's doing.
2. Sleeping in with Jackson and Matt.
3. Lost a load of mental/physiological weight today. I think. I hope.
4. Satire = May.
5. Home with the kids. There's nothing like a sick kid (or two) to remind you how much they need and love you.

Staying sequestered.

Sat

1. Sleeping in a little bit.
2. Chipotle for lunch.
3. New hutch putting together.
4. Dinner at the Krakellers.
5. Bitches. You're all bitches!

Sun

1. New month!
2. Breakfast at NED.
3. Playing with Simon.
4. Rearranging kitchen innards.
5. Nap.
6. Jack's haircut.
7. Playing pass-ball with Jack and laughing our butts off.
8. Snow. In May.