Another Year Older

Here it is the end of March already.  The countdown stands at 5 weeks left before graduation for both Lorene and Lynette.

The grand total of grocery money spent this month was $130.  I don't think I'll be able to cut so close every month.  I'm depleting my "on hand" supplies quickly. Except for meat.  

I hardly remember what I had for supper last night, let alone what I did the last half of the month.  The days seem to run together except for a few standouts highlighted in pictures.  

This is my birthday month, it is also the month for kindergarten round-up which isn't a big thing since most of next year's class is already in the pre-school.  I wondered if there were any extras that weren't in the pre-school and asked Christian to that effect that day when I picked him up from school.  He said, "no."  However, the next day he was telling about one new kid that joined them for that hour.  It is hard for me to communicate with the boys sometimes since I don't hear very well, but there is also the communication glitch between the understanding of a 

four year old vs. a 54 year old.  

The kindergartners, who went to the first grade room during the round up, made little goodie bags for Christian's class.  They each drew a picture and signed it.  I had and "awww" moment when the back of Christian's picture was signed by Barry.  It ending up in Christian's bag was the teacher's doing since Barry denied any knowledge of it.  

Christian is wearing his absolutely best favorite pajamas.  As soon as he gets home from school, he puts on his pajamas.  

Most years I go to my folk's to celebrate my birthday on a weekend near the actual date.  It has become a tradition to eat corned beef and cabbage and strawberry pie.  Mom and I always make two, but we didn't get the second one down since we ate our Sunday dinner at Pizza Ranch.  

We finished the first one off after supper and when I went to bed I was still hungry so after the house was dark I quietly went downstairs and snitched a piece of the second uncut pie.  I told no one but Jim and waited to see when mom would say when she found it.  She didn't see it until it was about time for us to leave.  She was surprised for sure; we had a good laugh over it and took a couple of pieces home.  

The boys were absolutely appalled at the thought of having no birthday party with me, so I planned to make small birthday cakes for them to frost, decorate and stuff with candles.  I was going to use the cute little 4" cake pan we got for the wedding and didn't use and bake them on my birthday.  

However, Lynette offered to watch the boys that day and I took her up on it, cake or no cake.  

We just frosted cakes the next day.  

I was impressed with Zane's handling of the frosting spatula (I can't believe I had to go look that up, the word just totally left me) and it was his idea to put the frosting in the bag to decorate.  The boys could choose their own color of frosting and the number of candles to put on the cake.  They asked for my age and when I said, "54," they were stunned at the thought of, "that many candles!!!!"

So, each put as many on as they desired.  Zane learned how to light candles with another candle, scratching matches on the box seems to be beyond him at the moment.  

Zane's Cake

Barry's Cake

 

Christan's Cake

He got a bit carried away with the candles and it looks like the whole thing is on fire.  

Zane was also zealous in cutting his cake so we could all have some.  However, there was too much cake for the four of us to eat in one setting, so some had to be saved for the next day. 

So, another month is gone and the new one started with a heavy 4 inch snow storm.  

Is spring around the corner, or not?