Howdy Y'All

Today's San Elijo Country Fair was downright swashbucklin' kickin' the bucket fun! I was super impressed by the efforts of many and how the whole afternoon turned out! Way to go PTO. No, I'm not on the board and I didn't volunteer. There are some limitations on my time having so many children and being super involved in the school has been one of them. I feel a little guilty about it, truth be told. My time will come....but I just have to shout out to all who were involved! I'm generally not a fan of fundraisers, but they pulled this off with shining stars and didn't make the families feel nickeled & dimed... even though we spent almost $300 by the time the day was done. H E Y, how'd that happen! We could have gone to Disneyland for almost that!

The kids had a great time being able to dunk the teachers, hang out at the webkinz walk (spending oodles on tickets hoping to win a webkinz), great food, art walk, decorate their cowboy/girl hats, bounce in jumpies, skate park, and all the typical fair games. I was so impressed by the silent auction, how everything was organized and ran so smoothly, and what the different classes came up with as their contribution (or room moms...way to go!) And boy, did the school rake in the dough.

I got pulled into the fun of it all when I saw what Brayden's 5th grade class had up for auction--an interpretation of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' done in oils. Each student painted their own 3 1/2 inch square and then the room mom put them all together to form the painting then matted and framed it. I was impressed..so I stuck around like a momma goose watching her flock and made sure that I was the winning bidder so it could grace my walls. I was in a bidding war with two other moms, but I won in the end! I figured what a great momento for us & Brayden to have of his final year at SEES. 185 bucks of greatness....worth every penny, but he BETTER appreciate it! But for now, it will shine on our family room wall and I'd much rather have this than a 'reproduction' of the real deal. I said reproduction!

So hooray for the PTO and everyone involved...hooray for me and my painting...and now the school needs to stick its hands back into its pockets and let that be the end of asking for more handouts...at least until next year when it starts all over again!