1940's Mystery Revealed

The weekend, that kept going. This was a doozie. While traveling up to my sister Dana's house, we stopped to buy a truck. Not just any truck a Chevy truck?!?! What..... This is to weird for words I mean Big Everett cannot stand Chevrolet. okay weirder things have happened but this one is up there on true conversion or is it settling down? Growing older I think is what we call it, anyways he bought it. We continued on our journey up to Jackson 4 hours after we left, ugh.

We finally arrived to begin a makeover on three beautiful girls to make them appear as if they were straight out of the 40's. Accomplished, and so the party began, but not before the 4 boy cousins were made to look as if they had been beat up while playing croquet in the parlor?!?
Girls ecstatically investigated the crime scene where the boys lie. Off they were to solve the crime. Several clues later and many pieces of evidence it was revealed that the culprits were Miss Sunny Goldson and Miss Peachy Apricotta. Samantha, being Miss Sonny Goldson, not exactly thrilled she was a criminal was given a consolation prize before her and her accomplice were escorted to the local jail.
Did I mention the mystery dinner where Everett was the head waiter, or the treasure hunt. No I did not but that I will leave for another day. Fun was had by all with the hopes that we can recreate this fun for Samantha's 10th. Fond memories of doing this at my 10th birthday years and years ago!
The trip was rounded off by a long trip home with a detour to Oakdale and sliding into home to make salsa for three hours, with the 4-H food preservation group. Followed by a trip downtown to the 4-H meeting, that ended at 8pm. Yes we are tired and I need sleep.

Everett gets a special truck

Everett's new rig,

Yes it is true, Everett the III, has just gotten his truck. No he can't drive it yet. He and Daddy will be working on it together. It was, Big Evevertt's Great Grandfathers truck and now it will be little E's.
He and Daddy are very excited to begin working on it and have already started.

Sammi comppletes her first year

This last Sunday, Samantha completed her first year of 4-H......
She was thrilled, and we were thrilled for her. Nervousness took over before she went on stage. She recieved her first year stripe and pin. Yeah Sammi way to go! This year: cooking, food preservation, and arts. Next year poultry and all of the above.

Patience

May I first say that school starts to early. When you are part of a charter school you do not have the luxury of choosing when to start. What happened to post labor day? Hello, are we not allowed to have a summer. It seems like the weather is confused as well, it feels cold in the morning and at night. I'm confused. Gone are the days when kids were kids, eihh yih yih!
Oh well, enough said.
We started. So far so good, no gorry details to share with all you moms who think I am crazy. Yes there are those times I lose it and wonder why, why did I choose this path. Don't worry obviously I am human. Everett cries and whines and wonders why the lines on the paper are not perfect and that his work looks terrible. Oh boy, what is a mom to do? I try to reason of course but that does not work out so i go on to telling him he must stop ahhhhh!
Katie prays tonight and asks God, "make daddy's hands strong again so he can build houses again for people." How sweet she doesn't understand nobody can afford to build a house right now, but she knows Daddy needs work.
I love my kids so very much!!!!!!! At the end of the day, I tuck them in to bed, and beg them to sleep. Prayers and kisses, nothing beats it, nothing. Thank you Lord for our sweet children......

HAPPY EASTER!

We took this while waiting for the Easter bunny to hide the rest of the eggs. The rascals had waited and waited, but hey that's the Hatch tradition. Make them wait until they can't stand it any longer, and then they were off! Oh what fun they had, oh sure there was the big ones finding the easy ones leaving none for the small one. Then there was the oldest (Sam) crying cause the others got more than her (the competitive one), but all in all it was just fun. After all we do know that eggs have nothing to do with the Lord's Resurrection.

What was I thinking, you may ask to home school. Oh well I thought that it would be fun and enriching and a great way to spend my time. Well throw in after school activities, teaching ballet and a full time real estate career, and Wah lah you have craziness. So here my story does not begin but finally gets a start. My choice to home school is still not a bad one I just need to learn how to do it all... or maybe that is the whole point, I can't. What do I cut where do I begin???
If it was 1943, I would spend my time cleaning my bungalow, and prepare the dinner while my husband was at work. Well let me tell you ladies, that is the complete opposite, yikes. Not only do I have three jobs my husband works from home, so that is out the window.. Oh well I would have to wear those hose and probably a girdle, no thanks.