This is an interesting month.

We kicked off with both Home Depot and Lowes having their workshops on the same day, which also fell on Free Comic Book Day.  Talk about full speed ahead!

Then we celebrated Roxie’s Gotcha Day. How has this little girl been with us a whole year?

That weekend, we were lucky enough to be able to see the aurora borealis this far south.  Unfortunately for me, Little Man and I went to bed around 10:30, so we missed it completely. Luckily, an old coworker snapped a couple photos.

We tried to go look outside again the next couple of nights, but the neighborhood lights (which rarely turn on) were on full display.

Mother’s Day came and went without fanfare, but given the mental health situation of our household recently, I didn’t get my hopes up anyway. It is what it is and getting frustrated about it doesn’t do any good.

The following week was Little Man’s last week at preschool for the year. We had a family picnic one day and his spring program on the final day.

His last day of school was super short with only the spring program on the agenda. Next year will be preschool graduation.

He didn’t sing or dance during his program and yawned a lot while looking around. We’ll have to work on that this summer. My plan is to keep his schedule similar on his normal school days with some Highlights workbooks and lots of outdoors time. We are also planning to hopefully get into swimming lessons next month to get him more used to the water (he is fine with splash pads and in the tub, but I want him safe around deeper water).

Routine will be key since I think the Mister is planning to go to the inpatient therapy after Little Man’s birthday. Though, we still don’t have anything set. We are crossing that bridge (and handling it) when we come to it.

Finishing off the last of our “normal” routine weeks, Little Man got to attend another birthday party for a classmate at Chuck E. Cheese. No one in our family had ever been to one before, so it was a new experience for us all!

The rest of the weekend, we went to a $5 movie at Regal and took a short trip to the local library for the first time.

We got our very own library cards and Little Man even got to pick out what design he wanted on his. He is so excited to have a card with his own name on it for his wallet.

We will plan to spend more time at the library now that school is out. We have the calendar for the summer and are starting the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten challenge. I have no doubt we are already halfway there. We read between 3 and 5 books a night before bedtime, so it’ll be close by the time kindergarten rolls around in a year or two. It’ll be a fun project!

On the 21st, an old friend from high school was playing a show in Nashville. I decided to make the trek down to see him play. Since it was so late in the evening and we didn’t have a babysitter, I had to go solo.

I’m so glad I went. I hadn’t seen Jon Dell in 15+ years (we were still in college the last time we’d seen each other in person) and it was awesome to hear him play/sing live again. I have a couple of his vinyls and Little Man enjoys them too.

We were also treated to a surprise pop-up from the Rowan Brothers. It was so cool!

On the 24th, the Mister and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. We didn’t do much but did have a nice meal and even better dessert.

A windstorm ripped through over the long weekend, punching some holes in our porch roof and blew a bunch of branches down.  Clean-up wasn’t too bad, but we’re waiting for the insurance adjuster to come out and see what needs to be done to repair the roof and how much they’ll cover for that. It might be a blessing in disguise since the roof over the deck really needed to be replaced a while ago.

The last week of the month was filled with panic cleaning for our company coming for Little Man’s birthday next month and a really unfortunate cold/allergy issue. I did not realize my nose could run so much constantly. It needs to hurry along out my system before the party because I am over it!

We also had our monthly potluck and the Mister won the disc golf portion of the individual games and his platoon won overall for the day. Not that his ego needs any more inflation, but he deserved the serotonin boost.

June will be a strange month, I think.

We kick off with Little Man’s 4th birthday (he even has several classmates attending as well as both sets of grandparents) then we may be trekking back to Nebraska if the Mister decides to go to Texas. It’s all up in the air, really. If not, I need to get swimming lessons sorted and start on Little Man’s summer learning routine. Either way, weird month ahead. We’ll see how it shakes out.

Until then,