Late Spring Update

Just to update the update:
The spring recital went very well, I was impressed by the choreography, costumes, and performances. Ginger's spring concert went well and was a very enjoyable evening. She has a screening at a film festival at the real theatre here in town tonight and (this is impressive if you know Ginger) made arrangements to have a haircut and get a new dress shirt a few days ahead of time! Charlie has earned his Wolf and is well on his way to his 4th arrow point. Bruce graciously stayed home with the younger 3 while Vivian accompanied the older 3 to a girl scout camping weekend; it rained a lot and some troops had a rough time with mud, but we had a great time! Ginger and Erin are hero(ines) to the troop across the road for helping set up tents in the dark and rain; they had never been camping before. Kudos to them, too, for not giving up and leaving early in spite of soaked sleeping bags, etc! And Ginger found a new troop she can join after hers disbands (the others are all graduating and leaving for college), Yay! Bruce just finished an extra week off, in which he acquired 2 new dressers, a bunk bed, a set of shelves, a desk and 2 computers all alongside the road or at great yard sale prices. Needless to say, that was the easy part. Next came major furniture moving in and out. It was like moving without changing addresses. The kids all now have more age appropriate rooms without rickety furniture and we did a major spring cleaning, too. Esther and Ida are dwarfed by their twin sized bunk bed--they can each fit easily in 1/4 of their matresses! It is cute to tuck them in at one corner and by the next morning they have moved to a different quadrant. We are all well and hope you are too!