Time Flies When You're Ironing Clothes

This is the time of year I get very restless.  As a result I want to do nothing and have to force myself to keep up around here.  I am tired of the winter and ready for spring and warmer days.  I have managed to maintain our house and actually ironed the clothes the other day so we will all look clean and pressed.  Much has happened in the past week or so and I wanted to make sure I documented it.
Starting with Jacob, he has worked so hard this last semester he landed himself on the honor roll at school.  We are not parents who are overly interested in good grades just for the grades.  I would rather my children learn something than worry about what grade they got.  I don't think they are an accurate reflection of intelligence anyway.  However, Jacob wanted to get the best grades he could so he did every extra credit project every teacher gave him and improved his grades enough to get on the honor roll.  It was even more exciting when he found out the honor roll students got to miss school that Friday and go to the Bowling Alley/Fun Center across the street from the school for the day!  What a fun reward for working hard.  We are very proud of him and he is continuing to work hard to maintain his grades.

Daniel has some really cool Basketball Coaches and they arranged for the kids to go to a Jazz game and then meet one of the players.  His name is Kyle Korver. 
The kids all took their dads and went down on the court and got their basketballs signed.  Then they got a group picture with the player.  This guy plays every game too.  It was such an exciting activity for Daniel and he loved being able to go with Alan.  I haven't seen him that excited about something before.  He is really a little sports nut.  

Daniel had to do another science fair project and neither of us cared much about it this year.  He was also extra bummed that they only were letting the 6th graders go to the district fair this year so he really didn't care about it.  We worked out a moderately easy project by figuring out what happens to water when it is boiled with salt.  It boils faster for anyone interested.  I did learn that the amount it boils faster for cooking is minute when you throw in the pinch of salt.  All the salt does is flavor the water, not much else.  It takes at least 1/4 of salt to 1 cup of water to improve the boiling speed.  Yea, we didn't really care about that either.  Daniel did well on the project and now it is over and he can relax a bit and so can I.  It is really hard to care about something because you have to set a good example for your kids.  
Sarah is working up to doing her first oral book report in class and is terrified of it.  I signed her up to go first because waiting for your turn is brutal!  We have to work out what she is going to do this weekend and, so yet again, I get to do another project with the kids.  I do enjoy the time with them but these teachers act like I have only one child.  I don't know what parents with lots more kids do.  Sarah is giving a talk in church this Sunday too so there is just no rest for the weary. 
I am glad my kids get to have these opportunities to do things.  It makes them stretch and grow and it makes me tired and grumpy.  But, I am glad.