Winding Down...

Well...this school year is winding down

and the countdown to summer is on!!

The kids were going to have to extend their school

day to make up time that we lost after the tornado outbreak

but the school's were allowed to apply for

"forgiveness" from the state to not have to make up the days.

Austin's school was approved so they only had to have one

extended day.  Some school systems do have to makeup the time.

But luckily we do not.

We have still been busy getting last minute grades in,

taking every bit of extra credit he can get his hands on,

and counting down until the last day!

Tomorrow is awards day at school

and then they have Field Day on Thursday,

we hope.

They originally had it planned for last Friday,

but we had thunderstorms instead.

Then she rescheduled for today,

but it is cold and rainy...

We have been having a few days in the 90's

with lots of sunshine...

but today it is only suppose to be 60

with rain and clouds, so not a good day

to play outside all day!

After this week we have his End of the Year party

and we will say Goodbye to Elementary School!!!

I can't believe that Austin will be in Middle School

next year...time sure does fly by!

But before the end of school,

I have LOTS of laundry to do

and general cleaning to get done!!

You would think with as much laundry that

we have that 42 people live in this house!

This is what I had lined up to do a few days ago,

I was on a roll....

Several loads of dress clothes to be washed and laid out

to dry....

I found these Hamilton Beach drying racks

a couple of years ago at Ross

and I absolutely

LOVE THEM!!!!

I bought one and used it and immediately

went on a search for another!

I found one and bought another for me and one for

my mom...who has not taken her's out of the box!

I just don't understand that...

and yes...I have told her is she ever decided to get

rid of it, she better give it back to me.

Then we found them on clearance at our local CVS store for

$4.99

and yes...I bought every last one they had!

Scott thought I was nuts, but I used those for gifts.

They will dry a sweater in no time flat.

They have four racks that attach to a drying tower.

Pop the rack in, lay your sweaters out,

and in a couple of hours,

they are dry!!

But the other day I had so many clothes to hang dry,

my little dryers were not enough.

And then my bed looked like I was cleaning out the closet,

but I was trying to stuff more in there...

Even after my great closet clean out a few months ago,

I think I could still find a few things to pack up!

So, the other day when I started this marathon laundry session,

my dryer started making a funny noise...

So I called Scott.

I figured my dryer would be like the car and

only make the noise when he wasn't listening.

He didn't' answer his phone.

So I left him a message and told him what was up

"call me when you have a minute"

A few minutes later he called.

I held up the phone and let him listen and

then I heard the words I thought I would never hear...

"STOP using the dryer!"

What , huh?

I had 6 more loads to do,

what do you mean STOP!

He pulled it out later that evening and found that

it was only a loose screw so after an easy fix we

were back in the laundry business!

But now after a busy weekend,

I feel like I never got anything done last week

and 6 more loads are waiting for me again...

so I'm off to do laundry!

It's raining today, so I guess I'll get on it!

Have a wonderful week!!!