Recent Events

I spent 4 1/2 hours getting my hair cut and my roots touched up yesterday. I always go to Evans beauty school and expect a long experience, but 4 1/2 hours! The good news is, I like my hair, in spite of the fact that she styled it to make me look like a friggin' idiot. My 4 year old neighbor told me she doesn't like it and that it looks "crazy." These young hair students always want to straighten my hair so that it's stuck to my scalp and then give me a little pouf in the crown area. I like to call it Idaho hair. I'm clearly not an Idaho girl. I'm a girl proud of my big 80's hair.
On a side note, as anyone else noticed that my eyes are lopsided? I made homemade hamburger buns on Friday, and then we made teriyaki burgers put on them. They were delightful. I've been regularly checking Jane's sister Emily's food blog. Her recipe was for the Red Robin Teriyaki Chicken burger, but I adjusted it and used the sauce to flavor some ground beef, then made regular hamburger patties. It's a public blog, so I'm assuming Emily wouldn't mind if other people look at it. I put the link on my list of blogs.
In other LeFevre family news, Landon started summer school yesterday. He'll be the acting principal at the middle school to get hours for his internship. He does this for 3 weeks, then 2 weeks of high school stuff after that. We're hoping he'll be done with the internship at that point. He'll just have his case study in the fall, then get his degree in December. We'll be soliciting prayers when he's working on the case study. Half the class failed last fall.

The girls have their summer chore chart now. They are doing a fantastic job! We're using the same chart we've used the last 2 summers, but added a couple more academic chores. Emma has to practice her violin and do a math worksheet, and Lauren has to alternate math and handwriting, plus read 30 minutes a day. (Lauren's third grade teacher opted to avoid teaching cursive to her class, even though it was a state standard. We're going to catch her up so she doesn't write like a Kindergartener in 4th grade.) The girls also have to wipe down bathrooms, vacuum, sweep, empty the dishwasher, empty the garbages, clean their rooms, etc. We give them $.50 per job if they do the job every day of the week. This gives them the potential to earn $4.00 per week, which is enough to buy movie treats, new flip flops (Lauren's obsession), save for dance shoes (Emma's goal), and other stuff they may need or want. They always get plenty of money in the winter with Christmas, birthdays, and other holidays, but they have a dry spell from Easter to Halloween, and that's when the money they earn in the summer helps them.