School

Tonight was very cute.  Sarah took time out of her busy schedule and took Zach over to Gombert Bingo Night for a date night with her little brother.  Zachary was so excited to be with his sister and to have fun at the school.  They didn’t end up winning anything, but both had a GREAT time and got to spend some time together.  What a great sister!  🙂

When I got home from work today, Kirstyn was totally excited!  She made the Still Middle School Basketball Team!  She doesn’t know which team she will be on (7th Grade Double-A or Single-A) but her hard work and hustle at tryouts really paid off!  🙂

She thinks that she will be on the Single-A team because she’s never played basketball before, but is really excited that she made something she tried out for.  She still feels bad about not making the musical last year or the volleyball team this year, so this wipes out all her frustration.  Kirstyn, we’re so proud of you!!!  🙂

This week Zach was chosen in his school class to be the “Star of the Week!”  He was SO excited and worked hard on his poster outlining all his interests.  He looked forward the entire weekend to being able to present his poster and to talk to his class.  One of the surprises he got was that Angela went to McDonald’s, picked up lunch, took it along with Ben to school and surprised him!  He got to eat lunch with Mom and Ben!

He loved eating his happy meal, and showing off his little brother to everyone at the table.  Ben is quite the entertainment novelty (just ask his sisters)!  🙂

Today Kirstyn and her school class went to see The Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theater in downtown Chicago.  I was fortunate enough to be a chaperone with her.  We had a great time and really enjoyed the production.  It was pretty funny.

Afterward, the girls all wrote thank you notes to me to tell me how much fun they had and how much fun I was as a chaperone.  How sweet is that?  🙂

Tonight I had a meeting at the district office with a group of administrators, teachers, and parents to talk about the end-user device technology strategy in district.  This is an extension of the technology strategy committee I was on.  It was a very interesting discussion and I am very curious to see not as much what the district adopts, but how it implements it.

I was a little nervous because the meeting went right up until about the time I had to leave to go to the girl’s Collage Concert at Metea.  With the tight schedule, Angela ended up bringing the boys and picking me up from my meeting.  We rushed up there and had a GREAT time at the concert!  The girls did an outstanding job, as well as did all the other groups and small ensembles that performed.  Brittany played her violin, Sarah played her flute, and Sarah also played in a recorder quartet.  🙂  Who would have thought those annoying recorders in elementary school could sound so good!  🙂  The boys did a great job sitting quiet and letting themselves be entertained.  We were quite surprised they did as well as they did!

The picture above was after the concert as we were not allowed to take pictures during the concert.

Great job girls!  We only could have 4 tickets each night, so Kirstyn stayed home.  Tomorrow I get to take her and go to the second night of the concert.

Welcome to December!!!

Today, Angela attended the Naperville Mayor’s Inter-faith Prayer Breakfast at the YMCA.  She was in charge of all the music and it turned out GREAT!  She had a string quartet from Metea Valley High School, and a duet from Waubonsie Valley High School.

Everything went well until they were taking down the backdrop and stage.  She wasn’t paying attention and got smacked in the side of the head with a piece of PVC pipe and it cut her open right above the eyebrow.  The poor kid helping her felt absolutely horrible as she walked off bleeding all over to clean up.  We thought she would need stitches but she just but a butterfly bandage on it and kept going!  🙂  What a trooper!

Tonight, Sarah and Brittany had their first Pep Band performance at the high school for a basketball game.  They were really excited and love to do this!  We love the fact that when they need to do something like this, that Sarah can just drive them and we don’t have to worry about that in our schedules!!!!  🙂

While they were off doing that, Kirstyn was put in charge of the boys and Angela and I went out on a date to see the Neuqua Valley High School Crystal Concert!  It was a sold-out show.  Normally we wouldn’t go to this concert, but the department chair at the high school is also leading the Art Speaks committee we were on and asked if any of us would like tickets.  When we got there, there was a long line waiting to see if there were any tickets left.  We went right up to the front and said “we have tickets per Chip!”  When they brought out the tickets, we got a lot of looks from all the people in line.  Some people that we know, were wondering how we new Chip and how we got VIP treatment!  🙂  It was funny!

The concert was really good and it is really amazing to see the amount of musical talent in our District.  It’s no wonder that schools in our district are awarded Grammy status each year!  🙂  We can’t wait until next week when Metea has their Collage concert and we get to see Sarah and Brittany perform!