What a week of events, news and achievements. We started out learning mid week at Melissa has been nominated for teacher of the year in her county. The downside is the nomination required her to subnet a resume, professional bio, and essay on how her work has had a positive impact on the classroom and communty (due 11:59pm Monday Feb 27th.) No pressure when you are already teaching a combined 4th/5th class and spent much of the weekend spare time planning all those subjects! This nomination just solidifies that she is a rock star in our local community (seriously we cannot go out without a kind work from a parent or student.
Next up was our DD Jessica's gymnastics competition on Saturday. Some of her scores where not great, she got 12th on vault, 6th on beam, and yet placed 3rd in bars and floor. We figured should would at least be in top 5 for AA and where pleasantly surprised when she got 3rd AA for her age group. She was happy to place and medal. She is not super competitive so I don't see this adding drive to practice more then she already does. We are so proud of her and will keep supporting this as long as she keeps her passion for it.
In addtion this weekend my other DD Lauren leared that her AHG (scouts) Stars and Strips project is approved. This is a lengthy process that might even best the Boy Scouts Eagle Scout project, though very similar in effor. Her project had to offer something to the community and have a lasting impact, required a minimum of 100 hours of service to complete, and be approved by AHG national. After lots of percivierance and getting past a home school bias that exists in the local troop leadership she managed to line evertying up to revamp/improve a maker space for one of our local (and oldest) elementary schools. This is the school Melissa first taught at before her current location of 20 years was finished being built. She has a lot of work left to do and we are providing guidance to her to help her manage the project without doing it for her. I cannot wait to show her final results.
And finally mom if officially out of the apartment. I am pretty sure it could have gone so much better, had I just taken a week off to properly pack her place, then show up with my own moving crew and truck and not use the same vehicle and crew as my sister.
An entire lifetime of memories from a 4br house condensed into a 1BR apartment, due to lack of both my mother or sister packing/preparing (she was moving her 2BR apartment in the same build at the same time) the move Wednesday was close to a disaster but at least all the furniture got moved.
So yesterday at noon DD, DW and myself left with two cars after multile calls around to get a small box truck or van (last weekend of the month and everyone was "out" even though I passed a chock full uhaul place. It worked out that after loading the first car it took my DW and DD about the same amount of time to load the second car and be ready when I got back. It took 5 trips to empty the place of all that was left behind. We are all tired and sore, yet at least her apartment is empty. Melissa already had a lot to do to finish her part of answering for her nomination, yet took the time to help me all day to finish this. Today she is going to focus on her nomination paperwork and I will just be ready to feed her and supply whatever she needs (wine, beer, shots) to finish it all up.
Looking forward to March being time to get my projects done and maybe not move several hudred boxes.
