Here is an update from the past week or so.....
Caitlin is getting ready for a week of Theater camp this week. Unfortunately due to schedule conflicts at work, I will be unable to see her performance on Friday, it will be the first one I have missed! But, fortunately Grandma Judy is able to go so she will have someone there for her. She should have a fun time. Then the week after is zoo camp and that will of course be a blast for her.
Yesterday we explored a zoo that we had never gone to before. It is called the Wilderness Trails Zoo and is in Birch Run. It is a small zoo with old fashion fenced cages, which I was concerned baout because sometimes those really depress me if the animals look miserable, but it really was neat. I only had one concern about a zebra whose hoof was broken looking, but Caitlin decided that was probably what brought him here so it was alright. We had a great time and plan to go back again. We got to feed swans, fish, turtles, baby cows, goats, the otter, and many more beasts. The animals are really close which is neat and we explored some Silver Award (Girl Scout) ideas for her while there too, that is the highest award a Cadette can get and involves doig something to help society, the planet or animals and should be permanent. It mamd me sad when Caitlin said that I was an awesome Mom and told me that most of her friends don't like to hang out with their Mom's. It makes me wonder if it is the Mom or the child, because Ciatlin seems to love to hang out with me and we always find fun and interesting things to do.
Cait and I have been working on finding exciting new things for the Girl Scouts to do next year now that I am the leader! I have found many things they can think about doing. The Howell Nature Center has overnights that can be incorporated into badges and they have ropes courses and a zipline which will go well with the "Journey" challenge we will be doing next year which focuses on bullying, being yourself, and encouraging others. I have also discovered several other fun places to go that I will throw out there. I want to have a "girl-led" troop this year which means that they get to make most of the decisions and I will just guide them. They will have to take costs, time, location and activities into consideration when voting what to do. Hopefully they will like this more than the old way of having the leader or her daughter deciding most of it. We also have a sister troop that is run by mine and Beth's high school friend Chris Davis. She is running the troop at Muir Middle School this year and we are hoping to do some camping and stuff together.
Jeff has finished up with the testing that he was stressed out about for work and is much more relaxed now, in fact he is at Gary's playing with motorcycles right now. He is going to a motorcycle track day next weekend for his birthday, which gives me pause, but I know he is a safe rider and want to encourage him to do things he loves. It is over by Grand Rapids and he is trying to get Cait and I to go, but we would have to take the dog and camp and then if Cait and I wanted to do anything during the day, it would have to be something Neiko can do too. We will just hang out here instead.
I have two tests left for my last class. I am so frustrated with this class, I just want it done. I managed to drag it out as much as possible, but now have to finish it by July 1st. The professor seems to like himself alot and his 3 page introducation basically said that he has never had a student that met his expectations and that he doesn't give good grades just because we did the work. He gave me one 100 and the rest have all been around 90. I got 87 on the last test and it now has my average at 90. I am so angry considering I was carrying a 3.9 before this class!!!! Argh! But it is the last one for my degree, so I will finish and be glad to be done.
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