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Merry is the month of May...

O, the month of May, the merry month of May, So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! by Thomas Dekker It has been a merry month and let's just say it...busy!  That over used word meaning: adj.    engaged or at work . Synonyms include: active, assiduous, swamped, engrossed, having a full plate, tied up.  It has been those words and more.  Definitely merry though, each crazy event this month has brought much merriment and joy to our family.  May always begins for us with two very special birthdays and Mother's day all in the same week. May 3rd is our sweet baby girl Lorelei's birthday.  She turned 8 this year.  We celebrated with her very first slumber party!!  Wow...that was fun and exhausting!  We had 14 girls sleep over.  Well, some of them slept.    Just three days later, we celebrated John's birthday!  His was a bit more low key.  His favorite dinner w...

A taste of things to come...

Summer is so close, I can almost taste it!  Well...you know what I mean. :)  Lately, the weather and our activities have given us a sneak peek of the glorious summer months ahead... Fort making... Lounging and watching TV.... Pool time!!       Amazing blue skies... And blue lips...(the pool water is just a bit cold still!!)     This was Monday morning and Lorelei did NOT want to get up for school...so I reminded her there were only 5 Monday's left before summer vacation.  We've had a few school happenings that were fun and certainly help make the last two months of school worth going to. Lorelei had fun this week prepping her shoebox float for the Fiesta float parade at school.  This is the last one for the Boyen Bunch. Jonas had an appearance on CTV today for getting 100 AR points!  I think just about every book he read to get him the 100 points was a Magic Treehous...

Little Celebrations...yes!

 It's only 9:30 and both Jonas and Lorelei are up, watching "Saturday morning cartoons" (aka Nick Jr.), eating a healthy breakfast together, while I blog and enjoy my coffee... yes !  Is it just me or do you have a little mental party all the time when you accomplish the smallest of things?  I was just telling John, how I always celebrate accomplishing things throughout my day, giving myself a little mental yes fist pump (think 3rd graders getting an answer right on a test), when I get the little things done.  Am I alone here fellow friends!?!  You know like, homework done... yes ! Dinner's made... yes !  Replaced Bailey's broken viola bow (and the store did it with no argument for free)... yes !  Library books returned and no one lost one... yes!  Seriously!  Sometimes my days are just filled with these little celebrations, other days, I'm lucky to get in just one and that's OK too.  I'm not a great list maker or calendar keeper, so th...