The Nelson Narrative

Today was the last day of school!  REALLY early for us--we normally don't get out until like between the 17th and 20th, give or take.  But we had a really short Christmas break and no snow days this year, so I guess that's why. I took the day off and Kona and I walked the girls most of the way to school.  When it was time to turn around, Kona did NOT want to go the opposite direction as them and kept pulling really hard trying to follow them, then at one point I dropped the leash and she was running loose but mostly just backing up because she was dragging the leash handle and it was scaring her...it was so embarrassing because there was a lot of school traffic and people around witnessing the whole thing, ugh. But once we finally made it home I had a nice quiet morning to myself to get some things done around the house.  But it was only for about 3 hours (which of course went lightning quick) because school got out at 11:55.  Kona and I walked to meet the girls, and

Olivia had her dance recital the weekend before Memorial Day.  She took Hip Hop plus Dance Troupe, the latter of which performs in a big production, in this case The Little Mermaid.  Both sets of grandparents came to watch and then we had a belated Mother's Day barbeque after.   Olivia is on the right by the shell The Saturday of Memorial Day weekend we went on a hike.  It was a hike I'd been wanting to do since the late '90s and just never have.  It goes to Lake Talapus first and then continues on to Lake Ollalie, but the latter part was too snowy and Olivia didn't want to go in the first place, let alone keep going even further so we just went to Talapus and back. The next weekend Paul and the girls went with their friend Abby and her dad and another friend to Great Wolf Lodge for an early birthday celebration for Abby.  That meant I got most of a weekend all to myself!  Between laundry and walking the dog I of course didn't ma