Report Card time!!!

Even though my children are in elementary school they still get nervous about report cards. It's cute. Well, today the kids came out of school to report they had been given their report cards. Before I could see them they wanted to ensure they would still get to play the Wii even if they were bad. The funny parts to that are 1)Andy hadn't even seen his yet and 2) Natali couldn't read hers. Not to mention 3) I'm not going to let them play the Wii if they are failing in school. lol. After I explained that to them we drove home and Bryant and I looked at their report cards. I was so proud to see that Natali got E's and S's (excellent and satisfactory) and Andy got A's and B's! The thing that made me smile the most? On Natali's report card her teacher commented, "Natali has improved so much. She is a true joy to have in my class. I can see how much she is trying not to talk as much in class". Nice. Nothing like having a chatter box for a daughter!

Another joyful moment of the day... and a tip to anyone with a stucco house... Bryant and I were trying to figure out how to hang up Christmas lights on our house in December and had read online somewhere that using a hot glue gun worked and the glue would just "pop off" when you took the lights down. The tip also said that this especially worked if you lived in a hot climate because the glue would melt in the summer if worse comes to worse. Great! We live in a place that gets to be like 117 on a cool day in July. Out comes the glue gun. Works GREAT! The lights and the garland look beautiful. UNTIL today. So I'm outside waiting for it to "pop off" when I take the decorations down. I don't think that I would call it "popping"... I would describe it more like "sticking". So I peel off what I can without taking the front of our house down and realize that there are a ton of strands of garland sticking in the glue spots. Super. So tonight I'll be out peeling my house off. Clearly the person who gave the tip should have put NOT to use garland! Urg!