end of year activities

Although the girls have been out of school for almost 2 weeks now, we haven't yet slowed down. I THINK that will happen next week, but I'm not sure. Last week we were still busy with rehearsals for recitals (Maggie's ballet was meeting 5X a week for her various dances, plus piano and violin), but we did manage to get parts of their rooms cleaned! Emptied bookshelves, donated/stored/replaced books for both, and got one of Abby's dressers cleaned, inside and out. Personally, I think the closets will be the WORST in that that will also entail emptying all the various bags in them......sigh.

Mom and dad arrived Sunday to enjoy all the festivities here. In addition to the rehearsals, we've seen several movies -- the girls and I saw "Letters to Juliet" last week, on Sunday morning Abby and I saw "Shrek", on Monday we all saw "Prince of Persia" and yesterday Maggie and I saw "Just Wright" while Abby, mom and dad saw "Date Night" (Maggie and I had already seen it). Maggie's ballet recital was Tuesday night and was lovely. She danced in 4 dances in addition to leading the pre-ballet class on stage. She certainly didn't inherit her gracefulness from me! Yesterday was Abby's first swim meet. She swam the freestyle (2nd place in her heat), backstroke (not so good a showing, but she does swim it straight!), and breast stroke (1st in her heat, earning a ribbon). Aside from the 3 events she swam, the swim meet was perhaps one of the most boring things I've ever gone to. We arrived for warm-up at 2, it started at 3, and we left at 6. And we were able to leave before the older kids did breast stroke, before anyone did butterfly, and before almost anyone (aside from the under-6 group) did a relay. Yikes!

Today we were able to sleep in. Later today Maggie has her first personal training session -- there's a program at the JCC that has her taking six personal training sessions that teach her about the equipment, form, stretching, etc. after which she's allowed to use the gym on her own (otherwise you have to be 16 with a parent or 18 alone). Abby has swim practice -- provided the rain and thunder start. Tomorrow we go pick up the girls' glasses. Saturday is the violin recital and piano lesson, Sunday is church and the piano recital. Sigh..........

Hope your summer's going well!