May

May turned up and Jamieson went back to school, yeay! We love him but a month off is enough to turn any parent around the twist! I went to the mall for the morning with Millie and Lexie and we ended the day at the Cendros for drinks and the kids swam. My laptop finally told me it was done and needed to go to the doctor’s so laptop free for a couple of days or few maybe, I baked lots of goodies, headed into the office to work there. Conner’s school had spring fair on and Bruce went over to help which he enjoyed and was looking forward to, he was supposed to be doing fairy floss stand. Sadly, the teenage girls took over the stand and he didn’t get to fairy floss – big bummer!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY – especially when you get your, I’ve been wanting one for soooo long and now that we know I can bring it home and use it – Kleenaid breast cancer pink Mixer!! Sooo pretty…

We went to Arco Arena later in the afternoon to watch Jeremy play in the All Star game for his basketball league. He played great, and we had a good time the boys were a little jealous playing on an NBA arena.

The next week Bruce went on a road trip to Phoenix, San Diego and LA for a few days. I got my laptop back and wow its fast, I had to play with a few things and load a few programs back on but it was just like a new one. COOL!! The boys had the usual basketball practice, school Conner had the regional track meet, he made the long jump (and did not too bad, his needs longer legs) and at the end of the week Conner had a furlough day for school. I cleaned Bruce’s office, which took way too long because he never puts anything away – crap everywhere.

The month progressed Conner had Track awards night, Bruce went so as not to cramp his style too much (he volunteered on track meet day so the coaches knew him), I was busy putting together angels orders, I had Volunteer tea at school and got a lovely vase of flowers for being a event chairperson, which was really nice and not at all embarrassing having to walk up there and get it, at least Paula was with me as my co chair.

We finished the month with the boys basketball team making it to the Semi finals but getting blown out of the water by the eventual winners (who have been together as a team for years) so that made the boys feel better and the pizza too I would imagine. Then we also got unexpected visit from Pete, yeay for us! He surprised the boys in the morning; we didn’t tell them he was coming so that was a lot of fun for everyone.

Conner had finals then the school year was done, which he did really well on and his grades picked up where they needed to he worked really hard and his results were really good. We did some shopping and lots of catching up and after a couple of days we put him back on a plane to LA. It was a great visit and exciting to see a familiar face from home.

Memorial day long weekend rounded out the month, Friday night we had drinks & swimming with the Cendro’s, Saturday Bruce went to Montes’ (Franklin freshman co coach) for the LA game and to say Happy Birthday. Sunday we spent the day with some new people we met at their garage sale (Sue was born in Adelaide but has been in the US for 20+ years) It was a fun day, we met some of their friends, it was hot so the kids spent most of the day in the pool and we bbq’d for dinner. Monday we ended up at Paula’s for a bbq so it was a jammed packed social weekend for us to finish a busy month.