There's a chance May was jam-packed with end of school year activities and such.
Including Carma graduating from preschool! It actually fell on her 5th birthday, which was so thrilling for this sweet girl.
Getting to sit close to her friends Sunny and McKay for the whole ceremony was extra exciting. Carma loved preschool with Ms. Cherry and we are so glad.
Random preschool day that Carma looked adorable... both Grandma and I attempted to get a picture haha.
Caption via instagram: And juuuust like that, we have a FIVE year old🥳! Carma was thrilled to have preschool graduation 👩🏻🎓 on her actual birthday and I was thrilled to watch her have such a perfect school year💯. Five years ago I was terrified and humbled and delighted to hold my new daughter👶🏻👀, sure that I was completely unqualified to be a ‘girl mom’ but grateful for the chance😅. As I look at pictures I took of Carma throughout the day with strong, smart, incredible women I am just so aware of how lucky she is to have so many role models and influences and people that love her💟💜. Chuck and I adore our cray-cray girlie💃🏻✌🏼🚴🏻♀️! 
{pictured: Carma’s amazing preschool teacher Ms. Cherry 😍👩🏽🏫🍒, our nanny extraordinarie Grandma Pam 👵🏻🌺, Officer Tlucek- whose acquaintance our ‘girl cop’ obsessed Carma has been eagerly waiting to make and who did not disappoint AT ALL👮🏻♀️💪🏼🤩, and Ms. Winder, whose friendship and attention Carma flourishes with and cherishes even more than the jolly ranchers she gets from her classroom 👩🏻💼🤗🍬. Love them all 😘}
Clyde's tennis season wrapped up with a very exciting conclusion: he and his mixed doubles partner Kelli got 4th place! They only played together the last half or so of the season, so it was pretty awesome how quickly they bonded and how well they played together.
The official A Team picture.
Clyde got to be the spokesperson at the 7th grade spring assembly to talk about how awesome tennis is. Lucky I was on the front row to cheer for him!
Speaking of spring sport wrap-ups, track is over! I was so happy to make it to watch some amazing EVMS athletes. Instagram caption: Two hours at a track meet = up and down the bleacher stairs seven times, a million rounds of rock/paper/scissors with patient middle schoolers, and lots of dirt and rock playing. Ohhhh how we love our Carma June❣️
Insta caption: Parenting hack: Have your fifth grader set up his science project at grandma’s house, so she can provide all of the materials, advice, emotional support, and water the plants on nights that he forgets. 🤓👩🏼🌾🌱💦🙌🏼
Will had a great idea for his 5th grade science fair, and we had a great idea for him to carry it out at Grandma Pam's house.
Thanks to their hard work and Will's careful documentation, he was awarded 3rd place:
Cutest little science nerd!!
East Valley held a middle school open house for incoming 6th graders and apparently there was some kind of mix-up because my TINY BABY BOY WILL was invited to attend?! Kid was a natural on the middle school scene, though. He loved looking at the classrooms and tried out holding a violin - he's leaning towards orchestra as his elective next year.
Pretty proud of this grown up boy and this transition from elementary to middle school. Will's amazing.
East Valley held spirit week leading up to the spring assemblies, and our sweet leadership kids mailed Adrian an official invite to join us that day. I followed up with a couple texts, including one thanking him for the use of his umbrella haha.
‘Merica Monday🇺🇸 Love me some middle school spirit days- I walked out this morning wearing Carma’s leg warmers and Chuck told me I was the dorkiest person he knew 💁🏻♀️. Daaaaang straight, babe! 🙌🏼😎💃🏻
Clyde was a stud and dressed up every day with me AND agreed to be photographed with me, so that's pretty stellar.
The younger kids decided they needed to participate in Spirit Days, so I got to pick up a couple extra tie-dye shirts the night before at Savers!
Western Wednesday - I made gold star badges for a bunch of the staff - someone was the constable, someone was the sheriff... and we maybe had a ranger or two in there? Good times.
Love having lots of plaid shirts on hand.
Tropical Thursday! This day made me laugh, everyone expected me to come suuuuper decked out but I opted to use my grass skirt as decor instead of costume. There's no way I could sneak in and out of classrooms with any kind of discretion wearing a grass skirt haha.
Cutest little hula boys!
I love cheesy school spirit stuff - I walked around with candy to bribe students into participating, and it worked a decent amount! I just feel like school pride done right (ie not solely focused on athletes, popular kids) fosters an awesome sense of belonging for all the students which leads to better behavior and investment in learning and taking care of the school and each other.
The last choir concert of the year! So fun to watch this 7th grade group enjoy their year together so much.
One day I was contemplating my complete inability to get anything done in life and trying to process how I went from juggling kids and laundry and church stuff and friends and reading LOTS of books to feeling like no matter what I did, I was always behind. So then I pulled up this calendar of the school year - the days I worked are in blue. I remember starting off at the beginning keeping to my 2-3 days a week plan.... and then steadily increasing until this full time long term sub job. Turns out if you work 37 hours a week, that's 37 fewer hours to do the other stuff you used to. Basically I have no idea how people with regular full time jobs get anything else done.
Spending an hour or so at lunch time outside in amazing sunshine and seeing skies like this? Definite work perk.
Oh, Will's fifth grade class organized and carried out an amazing fundraiser car wash! I was at work, but Chuck took the car through and documented our cute boy helping out:
We continued to get to and from school a variety of ways - as promised, Jack did size up to a BMX bike and did awesome on his daily bike commute. Clyde biked on occasion, and sometimes we busted out Chuck's new scooter, Baymax aka Big Hero 6!
And finally, I referenced a 37ish hour work week, but clearly 20 of those hours were dedicated to selfies. Those lanyards just really look good on me, sorry! Also a bird mask from some hilarious 8th grade girls in art. Also one day I did a dutch braid and a regular braid and it freaked everyone out, including me. Also I'm just vain :).
