Wake Me In Two Weeks?
The much anticipated Americana Day at my boys’ school has come and gone. The last week has been filled with putting together book baskets, (a big thank you to the authors who donated. (In no particular order: Donita Paul, Lynette Sowell, Bryan Davis, Tricia Goyer, Margret Daley, Camy Tang, Susan May Warren, Christy Barritt, Amy Wallace, Jill E. Nelson, and Jeane Wynn for donating books from Lisa Samson, Melody Carson, Kristin Billerbeck and more!) And securing more donations for food and basket supplies. Not to mention helping to decorate two rooms, baking cookies, practicing for the second grade play, making pottery for my son’s Indian class, contacting the Italian singer…did I mention decorating the classes?
Then we were all up early and off to the school this morning! The whole school was transformed and the entertainment was fun. So much was going on, but of course the most thrilling part was the silent auction basket. I ended up winning several dinner and show tickets (under cost of course.) There was even a cowboy hat being auctioned off to be signed by
Garth Brooks for the person who won.
Didn’t actually decorate the Indian (Sun set) class but I did put together the auction baskets!
Joey and his class performed a Possum’s Tale. A Cherokee tale about the prideful possum and how he got his ugly rat like tale. It was really fun! I learned that Chris is very computer savvy. In fact, his English teachers says he’s more proficient on their new iMac computers than she. He made a slide show for his English project and helped build a cave in the earth science room.
As I mentioned before I had baked cookies. My grandma’s Italian cookies to go with Timmy’s Italian project. I spent over an hour, maybe two wrapping these cookies in saran wrap, with curled ribbons. But by lunch time only two cookies had sold. And I had a big bowl full to go. I decided to take them out to where the food was being sold. Later when I was gathering up my stuff, I noticed the bowl were empty. I searched for the cookies. I had priced them a bit high, but I had worked really hard on them! No cookies were stashed anywhere. Later my mom told me a lady bought the whole bowl. I inquired and wondered and questioned and finally figured out the kindergarten teacher (from NY) bought the entire bowl because they tasted like her grandmother’s cookies! That was a fun unexpected treat for me!
It was a long day (kind of like this post,) but I realized (or re-realized) that I love being a part of big projects and events like this. As a child I would plan my sister’s birthday parties. Then I had kids and I’d go all out with theme related parties and games for my kids. In college I was the social chairman planning fun events and as a mom I’d plan field trips even when I wasn’t homeschooling! I love the organization and planning of the events. The ideas just come to me. The only problem is I do too much. In a small school like ours there’s not many people to delegate to. Though I did delegate as much as I could.
The overall event was a success if you measure it by fun. If you measure it by money earned, I’m not sure yet! The main problem the school had with this event is that it wasn’t publicized to the community enough. Most of the silent auction winners were parents of the school. But hopefully they’ll evaluate and learn for a more successful event next year.
