Sweet readers,
Can you believe it is the end of another month? Good gravy! We are almost half-way through the year. Haven’t paid off Christmas 2016 yet but it will soon be time to start thinking about Christmas 2017. I need to win the lottery.
Actually, I have won the lottery in life. Every single day, I have so very much to be thankful for. I may grumble or complain like I did on 5/6 and 5/9 and 5/17 but I really do have a wonderful life. And I do realize that. Like on 5/7, 5/10 and 5/25. Here’s my month in 31 sentences. “Sentence a Day”…for May.
Sentence a Day
Tragic May Day
- Overnight a tragic head on bus-truck accident occurred where 17 El Paso school district children were injured and a beloved coach/teacher killed. 5/1/2017
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- Discovered a fabulous group of grandmother bloggers to start linking-up with. 5/2/2017
- Happy birthday, Valerie; hearing such sweet words of support at Cooley Elementary. 5/3/2017
School Daze
- Figured out a way to fix dozens of brand new books that were improperly labeled across their titles on the covers. 5/4/2017
- Second grade field trip to Indian Cliffs Ranch, Cinco de Mayo Teacher Appreciation luncheon that became our dinner, Margaritas and blog reading tonight. 5/5/2017
- Some days don’t go as planned. 5/6/2017
- And some days do – bike ride to the gym, yard work, solar light planting, first ‘swim’ in the pool…brrr…jalapeño popper soup for supper, wine by the hot tub before bed. 5/7/2017
Miracle Morning
- First Miracle Morning; surprising how excited I was to get up earlier to try this program for creating your best, most successful life. 5/8/2017
Substitute Librarian to Substitute Teacher
- Have spent two days subbing in a second grade classroom during state testing, it is worrisome to me how wiggly, talkative, and generally uninterested in learning they are. 5/9/2017
- Same second grade class came to do research and my faith in them was restored; changing pace during the lesson, keeping them engaged and involved in their learning is key. 5/10/2017
- New shoes wore blisters on my feet and made me so tired, I went to bed early! 5/11/2017
Pool Woes
- Pool construction saga continues with heater problems, cracked decking, scraped tiles, uneven pergola arms but we can finally swim this weekend. 5/12/2017
- Chain restaurant Mexican can’t compete with authentic El Paso Mexican food. 5/13/2017
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- Quiet Mother’s Day morning in bed. 5/14/2017
In the Swim
- Need to invest in some good, waterproof sunscreen then wear it. 5/15/2017
- Swam laps! 5/16/2017
- Rarely feel my age but working and grocery shopping (backwards) in heels then coming home to clean house took its toll on me. 5/17/2017
- Whew, it took half the night, but I got my house cleaning finished. 5/18/2017
- My family feels quite needy and I feel weighed down with their problems and worries and concerns. 5/19/2017
Lucia-Sitting
- First full pool day shared with Lauren and Lucia, complete with hamburgers on the grill and cold beer to wash it down. 5/20/2017
- Going to bury my phone in the backyard. 5/21/2017
- Ditto yesterday. 5/22/2017
- Baby exchange; picked up Lucia when I met Jenny, her other grandmother, for lunch at Olive Garden. 5/23/2017
- Exhausted; there’s a reason why we have children in our 20s and 30s. 5/24/2017 (A few of our activities including moving chairs around in the kitchen)
- Exhausted but happily so…had a good day with baby girl. 5/25/2017
- My Prince Charming has returned home to the castle and all is right with my world. 5/26/2017
- Last full day with Lucia; her mommy and daddy returned home tonight. 5/27/2017
- Tearful goodbye to my Plumpies, Buff and Paco but wonderful day of pool time with my Princey-poo – bitter with the sweet. 5/28/2017 (Felt kind of deflated like Lucia’s pool float after she left)
- Our annual Memorial Day trek to Ft. Bliss National Cemetery always leaves me sad but eternally grateful. 5/29/2017
- A mommy’s job is never done. 5/30/2017
- Five more days of school, five more days of school! 5/31/2017
May was a combination of ups and downs, highs and lows. We were finally able to swim but it seems every time we get in the pool, we discover something else wrong with it, or the deck or the pergola or the equipment. Four months in and this project still isn’t complete. My family seemed to have a number of struggles and as a result, I was on the phone lending an ear to several someones I love on a daily basis. Having Lucia with me for close to a week was wonderful but exhausting but wonderful. I missed my PC who was gone for two weeks to work in Kentucky. Ups and downs and ups.
Your Turn
So, tell me true, how was your May? Were you speeding along on a roller coaster of highs and lows like I was? What was your highlight for the month? Please share with me in a comment below. And then consider joining us for June’s “Sentence a Day” post. Start writing those sentences now!
I am joining up with a great group of gals but there’s always room for more. If you have a “Sentence a Day” post to link-up, please do so! Right here.
Tomorrow, I am co-hosting Fabulous Friday with Jennie at A Pocketful of Polka Dots. I am so excited. So honored. She is high style and I am tickled pink that she asked me to join her! I’m in high cotton now, girls.
Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day here with me. Always glad to have you stop by.
Hugs and kisses,
Katie
Well that was an eventful month!! Love all the Lucia pics on FB!! And you look smashing in every outfit. I will say I had a chuckle over your description of the kids!!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I wonder if kids in a private school are more interested, in general, in learning and trying. I felt bad because when I had to babysit the second graders, I had no lesson plans. Nothing! So of course they were going to be wiggly while I tried to figure out what the heck I was doing! I just worry about the state of public education and all of the junk that goes on in public schools. Guess I am getting old and cranky.
Thank you for all you for your students. They are so blessed to have you!
curlycraftymom
Oh, what a tragic bus accident. We just had one here too! Margaritas and blog reading?! I need to make this a Friday night tradition! lol! 🙂 That floral top is just looking marvelous on you and your hair is looking REALLY amazing, too!
Carrie
curlycraftymom.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Hey girl! Tonight is Friday night. Grab a Margarita and read some blogs. I think that’s what I’m going to do!
Sorry to learn that you all had a terrible bus accident, too. Ours occurred as the students were returning from an out-of-town track meet. Buses from other districts stopped to shelter our district’s students until help arrived. So sad.
Oh, my goodness! Thank you for the compliment on my hair. My highlights have kind of melted into one big blond-ish color. Not sure what to do about that. But for now I am enjoying being a blonde!
Sarah @ Foxy's Domestic Side
That’s so sad about the bus accident. Crazy month for you, so much going on. Glad that you still had some good movements. And I don’t think renovations ever go according to plan. Hopefully they get everything fixed!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
May was crazy. Glad to move into June and summer vacation! Would be happy to sit in my house all summer and just veg.
Danielle
That little Lucia is soo adorable. Her eyes are beautiful. She pulls you in.
Your outfit with the heels I loved. Smokin!
Booo to pool woes. That is never fun. Hopefully it will be fixed and ready to go soon.
School is done for the year in 5 days? We go until the last day of June. But we also don’t quite have the heat you guys do. Our students go back after our September long weekend. Actually now that I think about it, when I was a kid some of the girls I knew who went to school in Plentywood, Montana were done earlier than we were, but also started back to school earlier than we did.
Thanks for the invite to do this. It was a really nice way to reflect at the end of the day, but it was also nice to look back and see what we did. I will definitely keep joining you for this.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Oh, heavens, I don’t think I could go another month in school. We start in late August most years so by now most everyone is sick to death of school. I am looking forward to being a lazy butt and just enjoying being home. Not sure if I will sub again next year. Probably need to start playing the lottery.
I am so glad you have joined us for S.a.D. and the bucket list series. Hope we can continue to get to know each other and grow our blogs along the way.
jodie filogomo
That’s such a bummer about the pool, but I know what you mean, Leslie—we are so blessed to have what we have!
In fact, I’m trying hard to use this as a gratitude journal, because even when bad things happen—I still have it so much better than others!!
I can’t wait to see you co-host with Jennie!! I’ll be there!
XOXO
Jodie
http://www.jtouchofstyle.com
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Great idea about making our sentences more reflective of our gratitude. I am going to try to say something nice more often than not. Kind of like my mom would tell us, if you can’t say something nice, don’t anything at all!
Andrea
So many of your sentences are so concise! I caught myself “cheating” more and more…
And I so understand how the problems of our loved ones can weigh on us… I think you have a good mix in your sentences and really highlighted a lot of positive things. That’s my plan for June! When I reread my May sentences yesterday, I almost wanted to change some of them, as so many of them were negative… But then that would have been really cheating. And maybe I needed to read them to realize that I need to focus more on all I have to be thankful for…
Have a fabulous June!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I hear ya on wanting to change some of your sentences. Me, too. But we kept it honest. I just need to remember that even on my grumpiest days, I have something to be thankful for and end each sentence on a positive note. Thanks to Jodie, we have a bunch of new bloggers joining for June. Should be fun connecting with everyone and making new friends.
Terri Webster Schrandt
Hi Leslie, I’m one of those new bloggers that started the sentence a Day for June. I’m excited to begin the series for June. Thank you for this great example of your post. Looks like May was a tumultuous month for you! Following your blog now 😎
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Hey Terri!!!
Thank you for taking time to read through my crazy May SaD post! So glad to have you participating with us. Will run by to check out your blog, too and look forward to reading your sentences for June and beyond. Welcome!!
Natalie
What an eventful month of May and good for you for staying positive and looking great! Once school is out, maybe you’ll have more free time for fun activities?
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I am going to count on having more time for fun starting Wednesday afternoon at 3:16. Can’t wait!!!
Sue from Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond
Hi Leslie! You have certainly had a varied month with many highs but also lows. How wonderful to get to spend so much time with your granddaughter there is nothing better is there? I’m also interested to know more about Miracle Mornings. I’m loving being part of A Sentence A Day challenge and reading everyone’s posts. Have a great weekend!
Leslie Roberts Clingan
So glad you are enjoying Sentence a Day. We are expanding…had about a half dozen gals asked to join us for June. Woo hoo!!! Hoping they will do the bucket list with us, too.
I have missed Lucia so much. Skyped with her yesterday but she was exhausted from school (daycare) and really not interested in visiting. So hard to go from holding our babies in our arms and kissing their little chubby bodies to viewing them on a flat screen. Boo! But I really didn’t know my grandmothers well at all so I will take technology and a look at that baby girl anyway I can get it.
Donna
Hi, Leslie – I had never heard of “A Sentence A Day” until this week. I have now seen it mentioned in four different places. I think that the Universe is sending me a message! Thanks so much for sharing this at: #blogginggrandmotherslinkparty.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I think you need to jump in here with us for Sentence a Day!!! Like writing a mini-journal. Let me know if you are interested and I will add you to our list for link-ups and graphics. We post the first Thursday of each month. Would love to have you join us for summer bucket list, too. We will share our lists on June 21. Great group of gals doing both.
Thank you for coming by!
Christie Hawkes
Leslie, what a fun way to share your happenings. It sounds like May was indeed eventful. My May was a rollercoaster weather-wise for sure–zipping between winter and spring faster than one could adjust. We seemed to have settled into summer now. We opened our cabin and I ran a Girls on the Run 5K with two of my granddaughters. Overall, life is good. Thanks for linking up at #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty.
~Christie
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Christie,
Would love to have you join us for Sentence a Day and the bucket list posts. If you are interested, just leave me a message here or email me!!
I was so interested in your Girls on the Run 5K with your granddaughters. I looked it up but they don’t have similar runs here. Rats. Maybe by the time my granddaughters are old enough to do a 5K, I will be able to find one we can run together.
Weather here was crazy, too. Not so much in varying temperatures but with the wind. Oh. My. Gravy. We have had such wind. Today was the first calm Saturday in ages. Knock on wood.
Let me know if you would like to do either or both Sentence a Day (start now writing your sentences) and/or bucket list for June 21.
XO
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I just realized I do have you down for Bucket Lists in June. Can I talk you into joining us for Sentence a Day, too?
Clearissa Coward
Oh my goodness how I love this idea. A sentence a month is a great idea. I may borrow it. ;)Your Lucia is absolutely adorable and I know how it feels to absolutely adore them and enjoy them but to be worn out by them. 🙂 And that ‘s why we are GRANDparents, right? Thank you for sharing with #blogginggrandmotherslinkparty. We greatly appreciate your participation and I have shared on social media.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
I am glad to read I am not the only grandmother whose grandbabes wear her out! My own parents never offered to watch my daughters for any length of time, especially not when they were little ones. My mom would always say she was pretty sure she wouldn’t be able to manage picking them up, carrying them around. I was thrilled that my back didn’t give out on me! Lucia is a chunk. But it was the very best kind of tired. And every night when we would rock before bed, I would be so thankful for the time we had spent together. Hope you will join us for Sentence a Day and maybe even the bucket list posts.
Lori Hill-Smith
What a fun idea for a post! Thank you for sharing at #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Join us!!! If not for June, start writing your sentence a day in July and join our group!!
Grammy Dee from GrammysGrid.com
Loved this post and what a great idea – sentence a day – love it! Enjoyed seeing your precious grandbaby too 🙂 Thanks Leslie for linking up at the #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty. I shared this post.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Think about joining us for Sentence a Day!!! If not for June, for July? Thank you for sharing my post. XO
Teresa - Aging Like a Fine Wine
I would love to join you in the Sentence a Day Challenge! I am planning to start now! Thank you so much for linking up at #BloggingGrandmothersLinkParty. I truly enjoyed this type of post and look forward to participating. Is there a certain place I sign up?
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Hope you have received my email about Sentence a Day. If not, check your junk box! Would love to have you. You can email me for more info.
Sue from Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond
I’m loving this challenge Leslie and reading what you and everyone are getting up to. Thanks so much for sharing with us at #blogginggrandmotherslinkparty. I’ve pinned and shared on social media. Catch you at the link up next month!
Sue from Sizzling Towards 60 & Beyond.
Leslie Roberts Clingan
Sentence a Day has been good fun and therapeutic, too!! Now if I could just shorten my sentences.