Practice run

We are experiencing sort of a beginning practice run for deployment.  Russ is in Alabama.  He's doing a preview and rating of a class that the Intel community is trying to start up.  As usual we carry on our routines as much as possible.  We did have our first major spring thunderstorms move through last night.  Even had a tornado watch!  I don't know how other areas fared, but we got some winds that weren't too bad, a good bit of lightning that wasn't too close, and a nice amount of rain.  So for us it was quite pleasant!  The younger two kids just slept right through it all!  I do notice that for at least the first week he is off anywhere I do have a serious lack of motivation to do any cooking.  Guess it was a good thing we had a fair amount of leftovers!  Lex having a job makes things a little different this time too, as does her having a boyfriend in Abilene.  It's boyfriend's birthday today so she baked some goodies and drove up to spend the day with him and take him out to lunch.  These kids do grow up mighty fast! 
One of our neighbors has a horse that he doesn't have much time to work with.  Mykhal has been gaining lots of confidence in riding and working with horses. So he has volunteered to work with the horse free of charge just for experience and some fun.  The neighbor agreed since he would love for his very young sons to be able to enjoy the horse.  So everybody wins with this! 
Kerrie is greatly enjoying her dance class and doing very well.  Her teacher is most impressed!  She has recital coming up at the end of next month.  I volunteered to make the hairbows for a couple of the classes.  It's a quick and easy project and the teacher is VERY kindly compensating us with no tuition for next month!  WOW what a deal! 
Really looking forward to a mother's day weekend trip to Scarborough Faire in Waxahachie too!  More market research time for us!  And good fun too.  Lex will be working though.  She doesn't seem upset about missing our fun.....our fun is not her fun she says.  Oh well!  The other kids enjoy it.