Week in Review: Stress Eating, Cone Making and Awards Receiving

What a week.  So very May.  

Maggie came into my bedroom midweek and said "Mom?  What are you doing?  You're just sitting on your bed staring at the wall eating chips and dip." 

Yes, Maggie, it's called stress eating.

 Between the physical busyness of this week and all of the emotional busyness that goes along with these big events, I am barely hanging onto more than my bag of chips.  But let's review, shall we?

Last Friday was Andrew's prom and then a weekend spent working at the shop.  We are training new employees but as of right now we are running with a skeleton crew consisting of family members plus one girlfriend.  It's a good problem to have, but we are busier than we thought we would be in May and opened in such a hurry that we couldn't hire and train enough people fast enough.  But being busy and having happy customers are exactly what we want!  We got over 1000 followers on Facebook in 2 weeks, and I'm very active over there, which is why it's been a bit quiet here.

Andrew (age 18) had Senior Awards Night on Tuesday.  He won a Theology Award (making his Theology-teaching dad proud) and an English award.  He was also recognized for his role of Senior Class Treasurer (making his accounting mom proud).

Alexander (age 11) was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society on Wednesday night.

After the ceremony, we went to The Ice Cream Cottage to get ice cream and they were running out of waffle cones, so I stayed and made a big batch.  Waffle cone scent is my perfume now.

Declan had his first real field trip after the pandemic years cancelled everything.  His class went to Plymouth Plantation and he said it was really fun.  My friend was his chaperone and sent me pictures :)

Alexander (the Good) had his History Fair on Thursday about Alexander (the Great) which was another weekend project last weekend.  I didn't attend but I stole this photo from the school's social media...he's in the gold crown, talking to one of the high school student judges:

I hope Alex the Great wore sneakers.  At least they are Under Armour ;)  Behind him is a bust that Phil borrowed from the Latin teacher at the high school.  Xander thinks it is actually of Caesar but played it off as Alex the Great.

Thursday night was Andrew's Baccalaureate Mass, which was very nice.  Andrew and Phil brought up the gifts together which was sweet to see.

Today is Brendan's (age 6) big Book Share, where the first grade class writes and illustrates a book all year and then reads the finished product to the parents.  They have to keep the details secret all year and it builds up into a very fun surprise.  I'm so excited for it!  We are also bringing ice cream and toppings to Declan's 3rd grade class as a surprise, which will make Declan (age 9) so happy!

Then tonight is Andrew's high school graduation.  Wow.

After taking photos last week, I compared JP's graduation announcement photo to Andrew's:

They look nothing alike, but they are sitting so similarly!  And now I think I need to continue taking the graduation photo at this lighthouse five more times.

And that my friends, was our week in review.  I'll report back with photos from today's festivities and our Memorial Day weekend sometime next week *she types hopefully*.  

I hope you all have a wonderful 3 Day Weekend, all weekends should be, right?  God bless those who gave their lives so we could live ours.