{"id":10799,"date":"2017-06-23T17:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=10799"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:12:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T22:12:03","slug":"emma-and-eli-may-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=10799","title":{"rendered":"Emma and Eli: May 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

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May at the Strange House is a total crazy train! \u00a0It is one of the busiest months of the year with all of the school stuff wrapping up\u2026and then it all comes screeching to a stop for summer break! \u00a0We love summer!<\/div>\n
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May started with a fun quick trip to Memphis to visit my sister and her family and to celebrate the retirement of a dear mentor, my high school principal Mr. Simpson. \u00a0We had the best time with the Graffams. \u00a0The weather was beautiful and the 2 Strange kids and 3 Graffam kids played outside for hours and hours! \u00a0The Strange kids even braved the way too cool pool for a few jumps off the diving board. \u00a0We visited some of our favorite places to eat\u2026Memphis Pizza Cafe, Molly\u2019s La Casita, and Gibson\u2019s donuts, hung out at Cameron Brown Park, and visited a cool garden center and let all the kids play with their fountains. \u00a0As always, the trip was way too short!<\/div>\n
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We took Monday off school to drive back to Georgia and then we were back to crazy busy after a super fun weekend in Germantown. \u00a0Mr. Simpson has been a HUGE blessing to me ever since my freshman year of high school and we were so excited to surprise him as he retires as the Headmaster of a Christian school in Memphis. \u00a0If I have even a tenth of the impact on a student that Mr. Simpson has had on my life these past 25 years, I will have accomplished something really special!<\/div>\n
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We had several awards celebrations at school and enjoyed lots of fun at field day. \u00a0We also had a tennis camp at school that Emma participated in and she loved it! \u00a0Mother\u2019s Day weekend was lots of fun as we celebrated with Clint\u2019s mom on Saturday and then Clint and the kids made Mother\u2019s Day Sunday a special day for me!<\/div>\n
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Near our house is a huge new park that Acworth just opened up called Logan Farm Park. \u00a0We find ourselves heading that way at least every few days for a little while in the evening. \u00a0It is a really nice park and just a few minutes away! \u00a0Emma and Eli had their spring musical at school and it was lots of fun! \u00a0Emma also participated in the Eagles Cheer Camp for the elementary kids. \u00a0Our girl loves to have lots going on!<\/div>\n
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One fun tradition we have slipped into around here is on Saturday mornings. \u00a0Clint and Eli get up and go get breakfast and head to the batting cages for a little while. \u00a0Emma and I get up and walk up to the Starbucks near our house to enjoy a special treat and just have time to talk. \u00a0We treasure these times with our little ones who are getting too big too fast!<\/div>\n
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Clint and I headed over to Auburn with our friends Ben and Cassie on May 20 to celebrate the wedding of Avian and Andrew who both graduated from NCCS in 2013. \u00a0We love this couple and can\u2019t wait to see what God has in store for them! \u00a0It was fun to get dressed up and just have some time away as adults! \u00a0That Sunday was Emma\u2019s end of the year piano recital and she did a great job with her music!<\/div>\n
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Emma and Eli love playing together and Eli loves having Emma read to him. \u00a0Emma had a reward in her classroom for good behavior that she can spend on a variety of things. She chose to use her last one of the year to read to Eli\u2019s class. \u00a0Eli was so pleased to have his big sister there and Emma was so proud too!<\/div>\n
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The last week of school was busy, but Clint surprised the kids and took them to Chuck E Cheese one night and they loved it! \u00a0Chuck E Cheese and Stevie B\u2019s are two places the kids love going when it\u2019s just them and Daddy! \u00a0We wrapped up an awesome year in K3 (Eli) and 2nd Grade (Emma) on Thursday, May 24. \u00a0Clint got off a little early that Friday and took Emma to ride gokarts and play mini-golf at Mountasia for the afternoon. \u00a0 That evening was graduation. \u00a0Emma and Eli were so excited to stay home and hang out with Granna! \u00a0Clint and I really enjoyed celebrating the NCCS Class of 2017..this was a special group! \u00a0That weekend we hung out and just enjoyed each other\u2019s company after such a crazy month. \u00a0We forsee lots of patio dinners in our future the next few months\u2026good food and long conversations\u2026our favorite part of summer!<\/div>\n
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May at the Strange House is a total crazy train! \u00a0It is one of the busiest months of the year with all of the school stuff wrapping up\u2026and then it all comes screeching to a stop for summer break! \u00a0We love summer! May started with a fun quick trip to Memphis to visit my sister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22,37,12,16,32,18,33,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-cedarcrest-church","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-restaurants","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}