Finally Friday.

Where this week has gone, I'm not really sure. With school winding down for the year and spring sports schedules at tournament time, our lives have been really fast-paced. The days run right into one another and soon, it's another weekend. A few happenings from our family this week:

• A rousing game of family mini-golf, which would have been really nice and relaxing if it hadn't been for the family behind us who kept rushing us. Don't you love it when people have no patience for teaching little children to do something? I made sure to take a little extra time toward the end to help the kids line up the ball with the hole, just to raise the woman's blood pressure a little more. Bad me.
• Graduation open houses.....tis the season when our grocery bill gets a bit of a break because we are making the graduate party circuit. One Monday, one tonight, 3 tomorrow....and then they really start coming.
• Lots of first grade "lasts" this week......last full Friday today, last homework packet completed and turned in, most of the work folders coming home, last Newsbook letter sent in.....I'm still having a hard time believing that next week at this time, my little girl will be finished with first grade.
• A play date with Hayden and Miss Braylin yesterday....lots of fun with a picnic and play at the park....until a huge school-bus full of kids came, which made the playground very crowded and chaotic...which meant an early exit for us.
• A quick visit with Uncle Dan today....thanks for stopping by when you were in town....good to chat a bit with you. Kennedy missed you and was very sad. We look forward to seeing them again in a couple of weeks for Samantha's first birthday party.
• Tomorrow brings our second-to-the-last t-softball game, our last Girl Scouts meeting of the year (both scheduled at exactly the same time), and then a drive for Kennedy and I up to Beal City for my niece's bridal shower.
• I am planning a luau for the first graders for their last day of school, with the help of another mom. It should be fun and fresh and wet, just like kids like the last day of school to be.
• Woo-Hoo, Table Scraps has reached Africa! It looks like I have a couple of readers in South Africa, so welcome, Friends! It is so cool and amazing that a little old blog from a little town in Michigan can be connected with readers the world through.....now, we need to reach Antarctica......does the Internet reach Antarctica??
• Happy weekend, everyone.