Camping and more

We have had such a busy month and I have been doing some fun projects, so I just kept putting off CJ’s blog and I am really behind with it.  It has been so long since I have done much with the arts so it has been fun to make things again that people really like with the crochet needle.  CJ loves her dress and one of the ladies at temple is having me make one for her granddaughter because she loved CJ’s so much.  At girl scouts I showed the girls how to make pots out of clay.  It was another one of those things I did a lot of his high school but have not touched since.

Over spring break CJ and I went for her first mani/ petti.  She loves having her fingers and toes painted so she just loved it.  I loved having my nails done.  It was the first time in a very long time that I had my nails done. 

The weekend before we went back to school, we all went camping in North Carolina and at camp ground called Zooland.  We went for an Apache round up with other people that had Apache campers.  CJ got to run around with all the other girls and play.  Her dad took her fly fishing for the first time but they did not ketch anything.  It was called and rainy.  Jay was sick, but we all went to the North Carolina Zoo together as a family.  It was a very long Zoo and we did not get to see everything because we were so tired after a while that we just wanted to go back to the campground for a nap.  CJ did not want to nap she wanted to go play with the other girls on all the play stuff that they had there.  Saturday it warmed up and some things dried out a little.  But I think that I will be cleaning mud out of thinks for years to come.  That trip was our first in the New Apache and we found that we forgot a lot of stuff that we needed for camping.  I also told Jay I really want a camper with a bathroom in it so that I do not have to just the community shower.  Those things are just so gross.

For girl scouts we had the birthday bash they had some of the Disney princesses there and CJ got lots of pictures with them and had fun dancing.  At one point in time she took off with another mom but did not tell me that she was going with her.  I was so scared that I lost her.  One minute I was watch her dance the next she was gone. I looked everywhere for her and the place that we were at was so large.  I do not think that I had ever been so scared.  Everyone was telling me that they had not seen her and did not know where she was.  So a much of us started to look for her, I found her and we had to have a long talk about not leaving even with another parent with out letting me know. 

CJ last week had her dance pictures and her first baton computation. I was so proud of her that the computation.  They messed up their music and the girl just kept going.  They had to restart their song which is so hard to come back from.  I was disappointed that it was not a real computation.  I thought that I had paid for CJ to compete but every one won first place.  That did not make me happy, because that was not the lesson that I wanted CJ to learn.  I wanted her to learn about hard work, practice, and competing for want you want does not always mean first place.  I am not sure if I am going to pay for a computation again, but CJ had fun at the computation.

We also had Shalomfest.  CJ played the whole time that I had to work at the gift shop booth.  She bounced and played with her friends. She went on a scavenger hunt and ate.  I got her one black and white cookie but I told her that she had to wait of another one.  By the time I got around to getting her one they were all sold out.  She cried but I told her that she got one and that I would make some for home really soon.  I could not get CJ to want to do anything but jump in the bouncy house.  I was surprise that she did not fall asleep on the way home.

Last week Friday CJ’s teacher emailed me and told her that CJ was not doing her work at school and that the class had a goal that everyone with get 30 accelerated reader (AR) points by the following Thursday and that the whole class could go to Burger King.  CJ was the only one in class that had not got her points and she told the teacher that she did not care.  I was not happy with her and her disrespect to the teacher.  So all weekend she had to do nothing but read.  She went to the baton computation because it would not have been fair to her team, but she had no TV or ipad and all she could do is read.  I worked because the next day at school she took her AR tests and got her 30 points.  CJ is very smart but sometime she just is not motivated to do her best in school.  I am not sure how to get her motivated.  Even her teacher says that she reads all the time and is amazing in math but just does not want to complete the work. She did make all “A” honor roll again for the three 9 weeks, so she is not doing bad.

Thursday CJ want to her spring fling at school and got to play with her friends and run around.  We then left and met Jay at a comp ground just north of us about an hour and ½ away.  I am sick this time camping.  We are here for a Coleman collector’s event.  CJ has been having a good time fishing with her dad and uncle and just running around.  Maybe next time both Jay and I will be feeling good and we all can have fun camping.