End of school year

     I've finished teaching my 18th year--and what a year it was.  It wasn't just the teaching part that was unique this year--but my personal life too.  We put mother into The Gables, an assisted living center where she lasted for two months before she passed away.  I have to admit--I really thought she was going to rally once again.  It appeared she had a stroke and by the time I got to the hospital, she was unresponsive other than she could move her hand.  She passed less than two hours after I got there with dad.  So much needs to be done to prepare for a funeral and burial, but I think we did a nice job with everything and I hope she is pleased with our send-off.
If you would like to read her life sketch given at her funeral, go to this link:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZxqfTPh4WuKEfKLBJ6WeVl__-97xeP9sDacCZhsvSNk/edit

Dresses for Africa

     Then it was back to ISATs, Quinn's state golf, and all of the end of the year activities, negotiations, changes and clean-up, and police report (ANOTHER story for another time).  I made a denim quilt as a prize for our awards assembly at the end of the year and it was chosen by one of my former students (boy-JP).  I am also including with this post the table runner I made for T&L for having us during the Houston Marathon, and the dresses for Africa I made for the ward project--I finished six of them and I've seen them referred to on Pinterest as pillowcase dresses.  I got the girls' princess dresses done.  Did the pink one first and learned from it to forget the netting and make it longer-which I did on the white one.  I also learned 3 year-olds could care less about boas.  I also ran in the Ogden half-marathon ALONE.  Quinn wimped out because of his calves which cramp whenever he runs lately.  I did it in memory of mother-which was my only motivation since I wanted to wimp out too because I DID NOT adequately train!  But I finished.