Let's get through April

Ok...I noticed I worked up to April 7th...Then I looked at my calendar and it says JUNE now so I figured it was time to haul ass.

ATL was a blast...We shopped, ate, drank, shopped and just had a good time. It was truly Driving Miss Daisy (Me driving my mom and her friend) but it was wonderful, quality time. It was fun to see our friends renewed spirit and it was great to have some time with my mom, away from other distractions.

Back to reality.

That weekend also marked Chad playing in the 2nd Franklin Simpson Alumni HIgh School game...He enjoys it more than he'll ever say! It's fun seeing him cut up and try to be 15 with all these athletes! Some legends never change.

That week of work started chaos. We hosted our Annual Appreciation Breakfast in Warren County with over 100 in attendance. I didn't realize how much my part ended up being the "meat & potatoes" of the event, but I am glad it was. It is really rewarding to put together a "year in review" of all the work we do for students. Well, a power point helps illustrate that but it is remarkable. This was one even that we received some very heartfelt praise and thanks for - but more than that, we received so many feelings of appreciation for what we do - and what most people don't realize we do. I also hosted a AT&T Job Shadow for 40 students from one of our high schools. Despite a rocky start with my organizer at the site - it was a FANTASTIC experience...the site went above and beyond and the students were really engaged, which is hard to do at that age. Even better that we received funding for every student that went through the experience...so...SCORE for the NON PROFIT budget!!

The weekend of April 16th-18th was one of the most trying events of the Spring. We went to a family engagement cookout that Friday which was easy and fine. Saturday started the day from hell. Let me recap:

9:15 - go to a salon to do a trial run of makeup on a bride I have never met. There is a lot going on in that one statement. I hate going into salon's to do make up - it always turns out fine but I feel like they are looking at my hodge podge of make up and wondering "who in the hell" I think I am rolling in there (literally...I roll a scrap booking suitcase in)...The bride turned out to be chill (would you be if you'd been at the salon since 6:45 a.m. getting a color, highlight and style by someone you've never met)? Her mother turned out to be "that mother of the bride." Oh me...I didn't start makeup til about 9:40...They were out the door by 10:15, off to buy an outfit at Macy's for an 11:00 shower that was 20 minutes away.....Can you tell there is SO MUCH MORE to the story?

From there I had about 2 hours to kill, which initially I thought would be spent sitting outside in the sun, but I thought I'd tackle my husbands office room/closet...I made it gleam...until he got home and was NOT appreciative...Eeeeck.

Then to our local university for a 2:00 meeting (which was a weekend of events in itself but of course, none of that worked out for me).

Then home at 3:30 to change to go take candid photos at a small private wedding, then to go get them developed and framed and on a table for reception guests to see.

I'm going to stop there and say the pictures were great, none of the guests cared, I drank wine and danced and then we relived the closet cleaning annoyance at home. Fun times.

April 21st...the project I spent 2 months on. I was working on a job shadow experience for the entire 240 student senior class at one of our high schools. This has been MY BABY...At the end of the day, 172 students went into 70+ different businesses for a job shadow experience. The rest either skipped, didn't turn in a permission slip or didn't care. Yes,I will do it again next year....because my reward was a free ticket to BON JOVI that night(these didn't go hand-in-hand) and a free dinner at Ruth's Chris....I considered it my reward!!

The 23rd we had JA Night at the Hot Rods - our baseball team (I have no idea what division). It's an easy event and great publicity for us!

That was about it for the rest of April...other than chaperoning our second Sorority Formal. We actually drank at this one...and it was much more fun that the last!