Looking Back at May 2025

May is sneaky crazy.  I always expect it to be crazy but then the crazy slowly ramps up in a way that I don't realize how crazy that last 2ish weeks of school is until we're in June, school is done, and we have a lot less demands on our time.  Then I realize how insane May was, even if this May was calmer than the year before (no sports for one thing!).  We had the end of school, Mother's Day, our anniversary, and even got our trip to Kings Island in there.  Really feels like summer and I'm enjoying pretty much anytime we get to be home for any stretch of time! 

Looking back:
1 year ago: My First SAHP(erson) Year (who knew that would nearly be a one and done thing??)
2 years ago: Day in the Life #14
3 years ago: Sewing a Pennant (this is hanging up right now!)
4 years ago: {13} Fun Romance(ish) Books
5 years ago: Our Quarantine Homeschool Process
6 years ago: {5} Surprising Benefits to the pre-8am School Run
7 years ago: Reflections on Mothers' Day
8 years ago: Balancing Work and Play
9 years ago: Painting my Drawers
10 years ago: A New Hope (Chest)
11 years ago: Dollar Decorating: Turning Toy Dinosaurs into Decor (these have been moved to the sandbox but we still have them!  And the paint has largely held up!)
13 years ago: Big Day in London - 1

 

1) Sno-cones at the Farmers Market!  We did this the first nice Saturday of what felt like the year and it was lovely.
2) Allium always surprise me in the spring, they are fun.
3) We did a glo run at the zoo which got interrupted with a severe thunderstorm warning but then we got to go back through the lights which was a bit chaotic (so busy) but fun.
4) Thirsty Thursday to use Sam's free reading program ticket the night before the last day of school.  It was so cold I was wearing my winter coat.
5) Celebrating the last day of school with a bike ride downtown!
6) Kings Island!  I was a bit anxious about this trip in the week leading up to it since the weather forecast went from perfect to wet almost as soon as I bought our tickets.  But the rain wasn't terrible and the emptiest park we've ever had during the day so we got in a lot!
7) Jackets worn all day but at least we weren't hot!
8) Stopped at the Wright-Dunbar Museum in Dayton on the way home, the Ohio counterpart of the Wright Brothers Memorial site we stopped at in the Outer Banks last summer.  Boys got another junior ranger badge!
9) Margaritas, got them in in May!
10) Planted flowers in the playhouse flower box, they are still alive as of this writing!
11) Within a week we went to the Wright Bros museum and then the Wapak Neil Armstrong Museum, and both places mentioned the accomplishments of the other!  This is the actual Gemini 8 capsule. 
12) A statue of Neil Armstong's actual space suit from the moon (you could touch it, nobody gets to touch the original).  
 

Books finished: 11 
Miles ran: 25.2 
Currently watching: Matt & I have started season 4 of Welcome to Wrexham which is enjoyable.
Most read post this month: Kool-Aid Cookies and then Opening & Closing Ceremonies.

 

June is such a slow down after May, no school, a few short trips planned.  Just enjoying the boys being off and I get to just be Mom instead of Mom & teacher!