Sunday Musings

You know, my Mom emailed a quickie that said something like "Nobody is there for the cake. It will be fine."  Secondly, there was a thread on the Mom board I'm a part of that's been there for the last 19 years.  It started with woman all due the same month, and has been around since.  Some of those moms, and not just one or two, are dealing with all sorts of issues this time of year.  Several have teens who have left the house and are barely to not speaking to them at all.  Some are not graduating from highschool, or are not sure they're going to be able to graduate, as they are failing out.  Some are not sure of their gender, their future, OR their present.  Some are addicted to drugs, or having kids, or living with abusive boyfriends.  And here I am hoping a party goes off okay.  Talk about first world problems.  My daughter is healthy, and smart, and funny, has good friends, a great relationship with her family, and her main addiction is junk food, just like mine.  We are blessed indeed, and it WILL be fine.  Even if it rains and we have to shut the big doors and it ruins plans.  Even if the cakes look lame.  As long as people come, which would indeed stink if they didn't, lol, everything will be Fine.

Lon and Cathy are here for a wedding up in the Ft. Wayne area, and will be here this week before Kaylee's graduation.  Cathy has been helping with the party, and will help this week too, which I hugely appreciate!  Steve has been working outside on yard and house upkeep stuff, and Ann is out working on the gardens and yard, after being able to go to church today.  It's great for everyone to be able to get to it!

Kaylee has two days of high school left.  Tuesday, their Senior Prank Day (and start of their final Finals), and Wednesday, their last official day of school and their Senior Picnic/cook-out.  She's been going to Open Houses, hanging out, and enjoying life while mostly letting school sort of slide.  She dropped down to mostly B's on her grades until I poked her, and now they're all back up to A's except for one B+.  She only has a few finals left and then she can quit altogether.  lol  We all still have a ton to do, but she's up there watching a video or movie and lying on the couch, and I'm on the computer not doing a lot of work myself.  Have you ever had so much to do that you just looked at it all and decided to watch TV instead?  Yeah.  ;)

On the other hand, I feel pretty good about a few things.  Some of the best put-together moms I know have done less than I have towards these events.  That'll make you feel good.  I've seen at least three other moms whose Open Houses are less than a week away and they haven't done anything but pick the date and plan on cooking some food for however many say they'll show up.  I couldn't sleep at night if that was me, literally could not sleep.  I think we're actually in decent shape here.

I have one student going for his checkride on Wednesday, and this is all a bit of a mess.  His written exam expires at the end of this month, which means he HAS to get his checkride done by May 31st, or he has to redo his entire written for another $150 and more studying.  He's in his 80s, and a very nice man.  He's doing Kaylee's printing, thank you cards and such, for free, as a donation.  He's in his own plane, which has posed its own issues.  I went to look through his Airworthiness and Registration, only to find no legal registration in the plane, just a print-out of the FAA site saying it's registered.  That makes it unairworthy and you can't take a checkride like that.  So he had to find/hunt down the real registration the other day.  It could have been a show-stopper, as replacements can take weeks to get.  He apparently found it.  The logbooks have to be gone through as none of us knows if it meets all the requirements for that yet.  I get around to checking his logbook for all the requirements, and he's missing over an hour of solo cross country time.  So yesterday he shoots off an emergency cross country.  His checkride is in 3 days, he needs to fill out IACRA, and our last flight didn't go well, but it was windy.  But he botched a landing in a way I haven't seen him do.  I think he'll be fine if it's not gusty.  But now the weather is calling for a 70% chance of rain...and high winds.  If he can't take the ride Wednesday, he only has until Friday before he's out of time, and I don't know what the availability of the examiner is for Thursday/Friday, and then he has to pass the first time, or again...out of luck on a retest.  So. Much. Stuff.  Poor guy has got to be stressed out.  I'm a little stressed for him.  Here's hoping for decent weather on Wednesday, plus him to be calm and focused, and everything else to work out smoothly!

I think I'm going to work on compiling pictures tonight, for the Open House, and work on picking a world map to put on her cake, plus picking a picture to send to Dave for her thank yous, and to Ann for the missionary cards.  I think tonight is a Picture Working Night.  Get more stuff DONE.  :)