Last Day of School

Kache’s last day of school was yesterday.  Ryder, Dallie and I went with him because it was just a cleaning day.   Kache has been asking for a mohawk for a while now (one of his school friends has a mohawk), so I buzzed him Monday morning before school.  When Jason saw it Monday afternoon he was almost upset.  He couldn’t believe I would do that.  We’ll buzz it off before church on Sunday, so I didn’t think it was that big of a deal.  And I remember Kollin always getting crazy hair cuts, so I figured if my parents allowed it, it’s not that bad.

The school kids spent a half hour in one room cleaning and taking stuff off the walls while another mother and I worked in the other class room.  After the kids’ class room was finished they started another mess in the storage class room.

Taking a snack break.

Here are the mohawk buddies (excluding Ryder).

Recess time.

One last class picture.  We are missing our teacher’s aid, she was in Hawaii.

And a picture with the would-have-been Lakeside students: Barrett, Ryder and Dallie.

And I did come home with some treasures from the school (of course, Jason would call them junk, but I love them). 

I originally thought to use this for piano books and other music, but then I put it by my quilt rack and was thinking maybe a display for baby quilts.

This desk I love because it had so many names carved in it from years of use.  I had our school kids carve their names in it too.

And these little chairs.

So now I just don’t know if I want to paint or change any of my items in any way or leave them as they are.  And how should I use the table and shelving unit?  And there are still some old wooden chairs at the school that I was going to bring home, but I didn’t (I already have enough stuff, but I can’t stand for any of it to just sit and rot). 

So that was our last day of school.  It was bittersweet, knowing we’ll probably not be going there again.

Calving

Jason’s calving 3 year olds this year.  It’s been nice for me not to have to cook for vet students, but that also means Jason doesn’t have as much help.  He’s got an intern, but this week the intern’s been helping the heifer calver, so the kids and I have been his only help.  We go out in the Honda to help with the evening check.  So far we only have 300 calves on the ground and 500 left. 

He called the other morning for me to bring out sleeves, gloves, syringe, lidocaine, and a baseball bat to doctor a prolapsed cow (and no, the bat wasn’t for sedation, but to assist in getting and keeping the uterus back in).  Unfortunately, by the time I ran Kache down to the neighbors’ to ride with them to school and gathered the other kids and supplies the cow had died.  That, combined with the rain this week, hasn’t put Jason in a very good mood.  We are glad we’re having rain instead of snow, but it’s still not very favorable riding weather.  It’s been an exhausting week for all of us.

This morning Jason’s at a neighbor’s branding, so the intern is checking his cows for him.  The kids are still in their pajamas.  I’m not sure what they’re doing, I can hear them screaming in their bedroom.  Maybe I don’t want to know what they’re doing.  I’m finishing up sharing time preparations and then laundry and housework.  I want to be outside planting the garden and working in my front flower bed (I’m actually going to do something with it this year if the weather would cooperate).  So far we have two batches of kittens and two more on the way.  I don’t know how we’re going to get rid of them all since all but one of the mothers are wild.  I think if we could get rid of the tom it would help. 

Next Tuesday is the last day of school.  We’re sad it will be the last day in our Lakeside school.  We’re going down to help take stuff off the walls and clean and hopefully bring home a memento.  The kids and I made some candy gram gifts for the teacher and school kids.  I got the idea here, but I just did one candy for each kid instead.  Here’s a picture of the candy grams and my unkempt kids this morning. 

Well, I had better get back to work or my kids will stay in their pajamas all day.

Artist

Kache won this fancy paint set in a district-wide art contest last month. We didn’t go to the art show (it was in Gordon), so I didn’t even see the picture that won and now it is in Lincoln at the capitol for the summer on display (all the kids send a piece of their art for display).

Ryder also wanted to show his paints and bag that he got from his kindergarten round-up. And I can’t seem to place his expression. Who does he look like?