Here we are just about at the end of another school year. One day it’s 80 degrees and then another day it’s snowing. It really is time for a new season. Graduates are ready to be done with their high school career and my boys will be ready for summer. Looking at the school pictures from the beginning of the year, I can see just how much my boys have grown. Good luck to those brave schoolteachers that have to work harder then ever right now-- all the kids have their heads in summer vacation already.

   Right now my favorite things around my favorite little town of Webberville are:

• * Reuben pizza from CJ Pizza. This pizza is so delicious and tastes even better than a sandwich!
• * Fool’s Gold burger and Mac & cheese triangles from Fool’s Gold. Joe gets a burger wherever we go and he loves those. Treats and movies from
• * Webberville Party Store. (We still call it Rick’s. EVERY time we get in the Fuller Express the younger kids ask me if we can stop at Rick’s. Sometimes I use it as bribery.)
• * Milk at Dollar General and anything else we might happen to stumble upon that we “need.” Since we go through two gallons of milk a day I seem to stop in there a lot.
• * Lastly, I noticed this week that Moo Hoo’s opened! Can’t wait to make our first trip of the year.

   We have enjoyed some great movies lately (and I actually stayed awake through them!) My boys have all read the Wimpy Kid books so we had to go see Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules over spring break. We laughed through the whole thing. The mom gets hired to write for the local paper about her boys and I think she embarrasses them...sounds familiar! I think this movie was better than the first Wimpy Kid. Last week I saw Water for Elephants with my mom and sisters. Wow! To me it was one of those movies that you want to go back and see the next day. Such a good movie and the fashion was amazing. I may have to go see it a few times when it comes to The Sun!

   One of my biggest fears is kids and water (along with tornados, downed power lines, jumping or slipping off a ledge, centipedes, earwigs, and guns), so I looked that fear in the eye and enrolled all five of my kids in swim lessons at the Williamston pool. The first night I was extremely nervous, but at the end of the first set of lessons I felt so much better and the kids had a blast. It is really cool how much they can learn from just six classes. We are starting the next round of lessons with the older boys moving up to the next level and I am much more comfortable about kids and water already.

   Funny things Daisy has said lately – “Because I rubbed a balloon on my hair then on the TV a couple of times” (telling me why the TV wasn’t working). “This show isn’t half bad” (telling me about her new favorite show on Disney – Good Luck Charlie.) “Turn off the heat I am sweating like a meatloaf in here! I don’t think I’ll make it to swim lessons tomorrow.”

   I’ll leave you with this vision – Daisy had to hold onto a blue floatie and kick her legs as the swim instructor pulled the floatie around the pool. Daisy had a hard time kicking because the whole time she is turning her head and smiling from ear to ear at the four of us watching her from on the bench. Her ballerina bathing suit ruffle was floating around her. She always had quite an audience for swim lessons.