A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home exactly right now.
whew! the fall chill is creeping in now at night. It was downright cold on Saturday night at Grey's game and I was so chilled I had to go home and take a hot shower just to warm my bones up again!
Reading Crooked House by Agatha Christie.
Getting through it. These fall weeks of sports and back to school are such a blur and adjustment. It feels like we've settled into somewhat of a routine of the week, but chores are barely maintained through the school week and it's a mad dash come the weekend to try to make up the difference. By Sunday evening, I'm started to sweat thinking about gearing up and getting through another week and making sure everyone has everything they need and are everywhere they need to be. I'm doing awful at maintaining my planner which I know is contributing to my stress (and don't even get me started on not keeping up with blogging. Recording my thoughts and our life is such a stress reliever for me, but these last few weeks (months?!) I have pushed it to the way way back burner because everything else seems so much more pressing (#enneagram2probs)
Carrying Gem around everywhere. Literally. On Wednesday night while I was at the neighbor's house helping with Schoology - Gem fell/jumped off the trampoline and did something to her right foot. I didn't get home until 9p and everyone was still awake and she couldn't put any pressure on it. Instead of sitting in the ER all night, we got her up to bed and B took her to the Peds on Thursday morning and they sent her to get an x-ray. They didn't see any breaks/fractures so they sent her home with instructions to elevate, ice, and take pain meds. She still couldn't put weight on by Saturday and we were carrying her or she was crawling to the bathroom (literally). I called around looking for anywhere that we could get her something to help (crutches/boot) and went so far as ordering a child size boot off of amazon! Thankfully our friends the Conns had some crutches for us to borrow until Monday when we have plans to take her to ortho first thing! (thank you Conn family!)
Organizing our first staff potluck event of the year. Since we are dealing with covid, we had a 'picnic' style luncheon and everyone brought individually wrapped items (mini sandwiches, cups of pasta salad and fruit salad, veggie cups with dip in it). It actually turned out really cute and delicious!
Volunteering at the CT color run like we have in the past. The kids and I threw color at the start and finish of the race while Grey ran the 5k with his friends. (B was at home working on the roof with my Dad). Gem had to sit to throw the color because of her foot, but she still had fun. Rust and Vi were covered head to toe in blue color and Grey ran the whole thing in good time.
Fall sporting with two games this week the way the schedule worked out. We played a home game vs. Portage on Sunday and it went great all around (cheering & playing). The it was practices all week including painting signs at cheerleading for the final run throughs for the season. We had a night game on Saturday at home (the last home game of the year) and Gem didn't cheer since her foot was busted. Grey's team won by a lot (we even got to have our 5th grade girl run the ball- the boys were so pumped about getting her the chance to make some plays!) but it was absolutely freezing that night! Pappy, Uch, and Kevin all were able to make to the game with extra tickets from another player (thank you!)
Teaching adjectives and numbers in Spanish 1, we started watching La Canela in Spanish 2 to close out our Comida unit (the kids love that movie!), and Spanish 3 Honors learned about Richie Valens and started researching their musical artists for our presentations & tournament next week. Spanish 4 Honors started their first novel, Robo en la Noche and read chapters 1-4.
Making turkey taco meat over pasta, burgers/hot dogs/shrimp on the grill, spaghetti with meat sauce, and sloppy joes and shells & cheese. We also ordered in one night with a Big Daddy and wings from Foxes Pizza.
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