Crestwood Caper

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Phew! It's over. The Crestwood Caper was Saturday, and so after months of preparation and five crazy hours of fun, it's all done. I'm anxiously waiting for the final tally to see how much moolah the event brought in. My family is anxiously waiting for me to start doing things like laundry and baking again.

Saturday morning started with me arousing the kids. Zoe popped up out of bed with wide eyes and exclaimed, "Let's go jump in the bounce house!!" She'd seen it set up on Friday night, but knew she had to wait until Saturday to play. Luckily, while I was getting things rolling on Saturday, the mom operating the bounce house let Zoe have an unlimited bounce pass for a couple hours! It was her dream day come true! She wants to go back and bounce again as soon as possible.

The kids all got an unprecedented amount of money to spend on tickets, but it doesn't make me gasp because it's all going to the school fund, right??? They stayed for hours and hours and ate multiple ice cream cones.

So, although the Caper has hundreds of volunteers doing their part to make it work, it required a few organizers to get the ball rolling and make sure everyone knew where to be. That would be me and my pal Julie! I also made the decorations for the main hallway. Go check out my caper blog (the title above links you there) so you can see my handiwork!

And that's my other big project - the caper blog. After reinventing the wheel for who-knows-what-time, I did my best to find a way to carefully document how I went about doing this job, so that in the future others can do it more easily. You know...when you do something big, you hate to think it's all ended and turning to dust.

And since we plan to be at this elementary school until 2020, I don't mind volunteering myself as Caper-blog-archivist for that timeframe. (No, we don't plan on any of our children repeating any grades. We plan for it to take 11 years to get the youngest one through.)

Yeah. The mural was also something big. I hated to think it would go down after only 5 hours, so the principal said I could leave it up for a nice long time. And some teachers want bits of it, and my kids want bits of it (like the Harry Potter bit), so maybe it will live on for almost eternity. Go check it out!