Around Here Week 37: 09/06-12

 A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this moment. 

Intentional Outdoor Hours: 459+ hours (of 1000)
Up about 16 hours this week. The weather is still feeling like late summer/early fall - so we have been spending plenty of time on the porch and outside after school.

Reading Crooked House by Agatha Christie

Swimming one last time at Gigi and Pappy's for the end of the summer season. It was pretty cold, but that doesn't stop these kids from jumping in! 

Getting new chickies! because you know we need it with five kids, five goats, 9 chickens, full time jobs, and coaching youth sports? more chickens. the answer is always more chickens. We need more chickens! (please read that like Christopher Walken demanding "We need more cowbell"). 

Focusing on innovation instead of annoyance when Grey took the tractor and mowed a golf driving range in our FRONT YARD. Good grief - B had just mowed beautifully and while Bud was at a school board meeting, Grey cut-almost own to the dirt- driving range from the front door across the driveway to the pear tree in the bottom part of the yard. Hon.est.ly. I stood there looking at the damage already done (I had been feeding Red when I heard the tractor, but Grey rides it around the yard like a quad so I didn't even think twice about it) and thought to myself, "well it's already done and it was pretty creative, so...let this one go?" Remember that snippet from the Last Lecture about how his parents let him draw on his bedroom walls - that's what I was thinking. so ...carpe diem?

Researching goats some more (like always). Donut has been biting out patches of her own hair and we don't know what's up. We talked to some goat owners and they suggested getting some spray (which has been awesome) but we have our eye on it to see if its something more. 

Thanking first responders for 9/11. My students signed cards for our resource officer, our fire school teacher, and I wrote little thank you notes for all of my students that are volunteer fire fighters. After school the kids all made thank you drawings for our neighbor (and their school resource officer) Mr. Mike. While we delivered the notes, our goats followed us through the path to our house like a parade and started eating their grass! Hahahah, we had to make the visit short and chase them back over to our house - it was actually pretty hilarious. 

Going in all directions which is pretty standard for a big family I guess. Grey had a sleepover at cousin Caleb's house Sunday into Labor Day (thank you Heather!) and we got a visit from Gigi and Pappy on Labor Day evening at our house. Grey had a dentist appointment this week that I mixed up and so he got out of school early TWO DAYS in a row because I'm a dum-dum. B had a golf tourney on Saturday and then met up with us later that evening at cousin Benny's birthday party. I barely made it to only 1 Open house zoom meeting on Thursday night (while feeding and putting Red to bed LOL) and B had a school board meeting this week too. My planner and our fridge calendar is the only things that keep my eyes from crossing every week! 

Fall sporting with three football practices and one cheer practice. We had a bye week with the Labor Day holiday so we got to take it easy for fall sports and that was just fine by me!

Teaching colors and days of the week in Spanish 1. Spanish 2 continued their Comida unit while Spanish 3 watched the Selena movie to in preparation of Hispanic Heritage Month next week. (Love that movie so much!) Spanish 4 did some pre-reading work for their upcoming novel Robo en la Noche. They made predictions about characters and studied vocab words. 

Making pork tostados and homemade haluski, creamy potato soup and beer bread, and meatloaf. We got a delivery of pulled pork and mac&cheese via side by side from our Uncle Buck & Kuma for Labor Day (thank you!) and it was such a welcome surprise for the holiday!