A General Rundown of Events

I usually try to post at least once a week and it's been more than a week - shows I've been working hard huh! So since my last post we've had all of our Memorial Day weekend activities - Friday I had off but spent time getting my application together for CS and making potato salad with Genni (she loves cracking the eggs for me) and watching drum major auditions at West. Saturday was my parade, my students did an admirable job and I was quite pleased - of course if you can get past all of the whining "it's hot" "can't we just get a float?" "do we have to march?" "can we roll our pants up?" - try marching in a real band with wool uniforms, then I want to hear you complain! Sunday we went up to Syracuse to see the rest of Eric's family- aunts, uncles and grandmas - it was really nice to see everyone since it's been awhile. Good food and good company, of course I had my bag of Genni food just in case. I think she may have eaten an entire watermelon while we were there though - she loves her fruits and veggies!

Monday was Eric's two parades - then the Simons family and my friend Deb came over for lunch - my kitchen looked like a tornado had hit it (I very dirty food covered tornado) so I had to get up early and clean, but it was nice to relax outside with friends and food. So once Genni got up from her nap I got her all ready to go to the parade - then searched for half an hour for keys that were not anywhere near my house, they where all in Eric's car at school. So we stayed home and Genni kept saying "but I want daddy!, but I want to see the band! why can't we go to the band!" I don't think she really gets the whole keys needed to drive a car thing. I'll remember this when she's 16 and wants mine.

Then Wednesday was the band banquet - shorter than in previous years! Emily was there and played with Genni and Graham some so this is the first year I got to hear most of it - long night but nice, I'm really going to miss some of those seniors. Thursday is choir, and that brings us to tonight's Jazz Band Dinner Dance at West with Eric's band - he was complaining last night about not having a vocalist, which means that I will be singing tonight....I get so nervous! I'm sure it will be fine, but noone is more judgemental than a bunch of high school students! So now I am going to stop typing so I can find audio clips of Skylark and God Bless the Child since I have no idea how they go, Summertime will be simple - Gershwin is my favorite. Wish me luck!!

Oh yeah - pictures of Genni and Graham at the Band Banquet, actually of them hiding from getting their picture taken are coming soon!