I am on a leave of absence from blogging now because I am getting ready for graduation. Actually, I am not really getting ready yet; I am just in the thinking about getting ready stage and that is stressful enough. I can't really get ready yet because there is so much going on that gets in the way of getting ready, though we did this week go out and  buy four tiki torches for the party (an oft quoted line in our house from Gilligan's Island:"better keep those tiki torches lit."). Last week we had three track meets and a band/choir contest. When we paid at the door of the band contest and they marked my hand I commented that the black mark fit nicely between the blue mark from Thursday's track meet and the red mark from Friday's meet both of which were still visible. Between going to all the events and doing the necessary laundry between the events (what I call "two sport laundry night-- a whole load of Grace and Jed's maroon uniforms and sweats and warm ups), there hasn't been too much time to actually work on the house.  I did try to do a little around the kitchen last night after the band contest. I spent six hours "tidying up." It probably wouldn't have taken that long but I got distracted arranging pictures on our refridgerator-- that alone took an hour and a half. It looks really nice, though. I hope our guests can get past complimenting Grace on all her achievements and notice how nicely organized the outside of our refridgerator looks. So this is it, until after graduation.