My goal was finishing up all the preparation for Art Show and Open House by Friday, so I could bring them to the teachers on my day off.  It took me every evening for almost a week to work on the portfolios for all 57 kids in the 2 classes along with the artwork display for one of the classrooms.  Since the boys have been playing with the neighborhood kids after dinner lately, those were my work times in the garage while keeping an eye on them.  On Friday I was excited to have a day off to myself and I wanted to go shopping, but unfortunately I did not leave myself enough time to finish up the portfolios before the school day ended.  I had to recruit Stuart to help me do the gluing at the end, and I managed to wrap up and deliver everything to the classes.  My volunteering job for the year had ended and now I can just look forward to see the kids’ work at Open House next Tuesday.