Just come catch-up (not ketchup)

 I feel like a slacker blogger.  While there have been times in the history of this blog that I just couldn't wait to blog about something, that hasn't happened for quite a while.  So I just don't blog.  Or I sit down to blog and then talk myself out of it, because I decide it is a poor topic, worry about Internet predators, get sidetracked with interruptions, and on and on.  Today, I decided that I would play a little catch-up and post a few things with pictures, since my posts have been a little lean on pictures this year.  

The big T had his birthday a few months ago.  He's on the count-down now to leave the teenage years behind.  He did age out of his dental insurance before his braces were off--very sad, indeed.

Our other laddie had a birthday about a month ago.  Ice cream cakes all around.  He also has his permit.  He is a guy with a hollow leg--just now he is having his third breakfast and it is 10:30 a.m.

Here are the two piano recital kids (from about a month ago), waiting for their turns to play.  They pulled it out of the bag yet again. I am not really a piano mom.  Children who take piano lessons need piano moms.  Heaven help us all.

Hey, a little Easter posturing from the cast and crew.  Since L had a swim meet Friday and Saturday of Easter weekend, we went on our picnic on Monday since the kids did not have school that day.  A good picnic equals Subway sandwiches picked up on our way--my favorite kind of picnic.  We were supposed to have a family Easter egg hunt--the eggs were all "loaded" and waiting but through scheduling problems, weather problems, and miss-communication, we are STILL trying to find time for that!  It will eventually happen and all will be well. 

L went to prom (as you know from my previous post) and here is a picture of her group.  Lovely, isn't it?

This is a photo from a swim activity last night--the club swimmers were trying their hand at water polo.  What I really wanted to post were pictures from last night of L looking like a mermaid in a water walking ball.  However, I have worries about girls in swimsuits and Internet security.  So this will suffice.  Fun evening and L swam 200 laps of the pool for a fundraiser.  If you're inclined, we will still take donations.  You pledge so much for each lap she swam--so 200 laps at, say, 10 cents would be $20 or of course you could offer, say, $1 per lap and send $200, and so it goes.  :0)  The sky's the limit.

Here is our faithful hound and B on our Easter picnic (along with my fingers by his shoulder--thank heaven for cropping).  B is already doing fire work this season.  That is good or bad depending on the perspective one has.  Good for income but fires can be bad.  He's working on a fire in our neck of the woods even as I type, besides still taking care of his regular work. 

I went to visit this lady this week--my auntie.  I hope I do as well as she does when I am her age.  I keep telling myself that I am, after all, swimming in her gene pool, but I do not know if I will do as well.

My walking partner (dog) and I have gone on a few leisurely walks lately because the weather has been so fine.  Except for her aversion to vents or grates in the road, she is a pretty good partner.

In lieu of a picture of me, I am including a picture of where I work.

So there's my ketchup . . . I mean catch-up.  Bye.