A Thoroughly Adventurous Weekend

I hope you all had a great Easter! We had an extremely busy weekend at our house, which included yard work and house cleaning. Oh, and kindergarteners.

I spent my "holiday" off on Friday with my oldest's class helping with the Easter egg hunt and doing their spring party. Those kids wore me out, but we had a blast making dirt from cake and gummy worms, butterfly handprints, doorknob hangers, and eating pizza. I was ready for a nap by the time it was all done. I get to chaparone on their field trip to the zoo next week. Looks like I'm gonna have to stock up on gum, because you can't smoke in the zoo, and Lord knows I'm going to need it. I know, very masochistic of me, huh?

Saturday was, of course, my ceramics class, and I was one unhappy camper, let me tell ya. One of the greenfire kilns stopped working properly, possibly turning everything that was in it to ash. None of my pieces were in there. As a matter of fact, none of my pieces made it to a kiln at all last week. So, I only had my cups to glaze, which wasn't a pretty sight once I was done with them. I also had no clay, since I never took the time to buy any, due to my ever hectic week. Hence, no pictures yet. This is really driving me crazy. Don't these people understand I have a commitment to my fellow bloggers to post pictures?!

I took my frustrations out on my holly bushes. A borrowed hedge trimmer and 2 hours later, I have 4 40 gallon bags of trimmings and the scars to prove that they put up a good fight, but I won. I butchered them, but in all fairness, they needed it. They are covered in scale. (See the buggers here.) And in order to get to the nasty little things, I had to cut a lot out. The limbs are definately NOT going into my compost.

I feel bad about sleeping in and not going to church Sunday, but hey, I was thoroughly exhausted. The boys did their Easter egg hunt in the backyard. It's funny because, even at 9 months old, my youngest seemed to understand the concept of picking up the eggs and putting them in a basket, after he chewed on them, of course. Now, if only he could understand the concept of a nap, which he refused to do all weekend. I would have pictures, but alas the batteries in the camera died yesterday mid shooting. I'm breaking down today and buying more, so I don't have to retrieve more from the remotes.

This brings us all back around to this very warm Monday morning, where I'm trying to get enough coffee down so I can see straight, and ward off the swelling that has been going on in my hands and feet thanks to the high humidity. Spring is here! So, how was your weekend?