Jim has been working a couple of weeks on a contract with GM at the Renaissance Center in Detroit; he drives there on Monday and back on Thursday, and has been staying at the Marriott inside the Renaissance Center. He'll be there a couple more weeks and will then begin a project with Dress Barn in Columbus, Ohio.
Aidan's school music program took place in April. I volunteered (never again!) to help chaperone the kids during their rehearsal the day of the program and they were not very well behaved. However, they all pulled it together wonderfully by evening, and the program itself was loads of fun to watch. They did a short version of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," with a few of Aidan's classmates playing the parts of the main characters. Then they sang a few popular songs and they were very good. :)
Aidan's guitar recital will be Friday 3 June at 7 pm at his school; Esme's piano recital will be Thursday 8 June at 7 pm at her teacher's church. We're looking forward to both of these events.
We very much enjoyed Emily's 2nd birthday party at Scott and Cathy's house. She is a sweet little two-year-old! Her party had a monkeys theme - with monkey cake-balls, monkey bread, and monkey decorations; very cute. :)
We spent part of Easter after church with Grandma Margie, Edward and Mariah; Grandma made a ham and some potato salad and we had a nice meal together. After lunch I hid the plastic eggs for the three kids, who had a good time racing around Grandma's yard trying to find them all. Hope we got all of them!
In May we'll be up to our usual round of work, school, music lessons and volunteering. The weather in April finally decided to warm up to at least tolerable temperatures, but it's pretty much just now stopped raining, so we're hoping for a few dry sunny days. Aidan and I got in one bike ride last weekend - we took a quick spin to the park and back - but otherwise the bikes have pretty much just been waiting for us!
Here's hoping we (and you!) have a happy, healthy May! :)