In the Merry, Merry Month of May...

There is no shortage of things to do as we wind down the school year and spring sports schedule and look ahead to a typical busy summer.

Today was the Royal Event at Assumption High School. It's our annual fundraiser that features food, games, beverages, bingo, baskets raffles, auctions, crafts and more. Our main commitment was the 5K walk now named after our friends' scholarship fund.

We got lucky that the rain held off for the walk -- and all day. In fact, it was surprisingly warm. Thankfully, there was a solid breeze to cool us off. When we were almost done and walking past the bank in downtown Rapids, it said 81 degrees!

All three of us survived just fine. It helps to know that waiting for us back at the finish line is ice cold water, good food and, oh yes, cheesecake for dessert... and cream puffs... and ice cream. So many choices. I actually had cheesecake since that's a rare treat for me! Ended up hanging around a couple hours with our friends. That was fun.

Came home and Carter basically spent the afternoon in his room, finishing a book and moving onto other homework he "forgot" about. So he'll be up a few hours yet.

My goal was to finish my mints. Not a problem. I had less than 200 to go and finished those. So I ended up with 100 diplomas, 60+ blue roses and 60+ white roses. A few leftover crappy ones, too, that had to be eaten right away!

When we first got home, it was so hot and muggy we decided to turn the air on. By the time Jim left for 6 o'clock church, the outside temp had dropped 20 degrees. Seriously! So we opened the house back up to 63 degrees and cool breezes. Very strange.

But also part of the reason the month of May is so merry.... Good sleeping weather!