Around Here Week 07: 02/12-18

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

2 months, 3 months, 4 months (current)

Intentional Outdoor Hours: 13+ hours (of 1000)
These random days of sunshine and warm-ish weather are toying with my emotions. Don't get me wrong, I love them and we are soaking them up for everything they are worth - but my internal clock is starting to think that it is supposed to be spring now but we are only in mid-February! I need to be prepared for several weeks of still crap weather, but I can feel myself already getting antsy about sunshine and warmth and flowers. Oh gosh, my poor heart can't take a veer back into winter weather at this point. 

Reading The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (a borrow from my student Lily!) I already watched the show on Amazon Prime this summer and the book is not quite the same, but same characters and feelings but varies pretty differently on the actual events. I'm still team Jeremiah from watching the show, but my students are convinced that by the third book I'll be team Conrad.

Farm troubles: trying to secure the tarp back to the shed after the high winds destroyed it. We just need to keep it all secured to save the hay from rain and/or snow for the rest of the season. Man, it's always something with farm life.

Saying farewell to little prince Juniper. We took him back to his home farm after he (hopefully!) had enough romantic encounters with our goatie girls over the last two months. He was such a sweet goat and we loved having him. 

Superbowl Sunday at our neighbor/friend's house (The Altimores). We always have a great time there and the babies love their daughter Sophia who dotes on them so lovingly. We stayed until Rihanna was done at halftime (yas queen! pregnant and fierce!) and then headed home so we could try to get ourselves together before starting a new week. 

Valentine mania for the kids' class parties. I know I'm a cranky babypants, but ughhhh Valentine school parties are my least favorite. I printed some simple valentines and ordered two boxes of candy bracelets and set the kids to work. They colored and wrote out over 20 valentines each. Thank goodness to all the homeroom moms who organize the school parties (bless you!) For the junior high boy, we got a sweet little gift ready for his little valentine too. 

Enjoying fresh flowers at school and at home since Brandon surprises all his girls with bouquets for Valentine's every year. He brought mine to our lunch date (food from Tailgatez!) and they brighten up my room so much, I love them! The girls were overjoyed and look forward to him arriving home from work every year on Valentine's day. 

Taking Osa for her last vaccine boosters and finding out she put on 21 lb s since last month. LOL. 

Book club meeting with Books & Brews to discuss Jackal by Erin E Adams atStadium Pub & Grill. We ate, talked about the book, and then played Music bingo which was the event happening at the pub that night. It was so fun and I even was inspired to choose my karaoke song for the upcoming teacher pizza & karaoke! We picked our next read - The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys

Hosting our little cousins at our house for the weekend. On Friday after school, I headed out to Washpa to pick the three girls up so they could spend the next two days at our house for a big cousin sleepover. Our plan is to do it once a month and the kids all had so much fun together. It was wild to have 9 kids in the house, but also big families know that adding more kids into the mix is rarely and issue - it's just more fun! 

Birthday party mania. Grey had a paintball and sleepover party with his besties in honor of the Conn twins' birthday on Friday night. B and I attended a surprise birthday on Saturday night for our friend Dustin (thanks to Heather & Albert for hanging with all the kids so we could go!) And we are thinking and planning ahead to next week when we have our own little birthday girl's special day (Gemma will be 11 on Monday!) 

Teaching Spanish 1 an introduction to bullfighting and then we watched Ferdinand. Spanish 2 worked on finished el Ekeko and Spanish 2 Honors watched Pachamama with a movie guide. Spanish 3/4 Honors learned about the imperfecto past tense. We took a break on Wednesday when it was so beautiful and warm outside to read La Casa de la Dentista (a Sr. Wooly graphic novel!) in the courtyard which actually turned out to be great practice reading & finding past tense verbs. I also gave out Leave Me Alone Passes because believe it or not - we are already half way through the third marking period already?!

Sporting with only two baseball practices for Grey and he got his basketball equipment turned in this week to finish out the season officially. Gemma had three basketball games and then she and Violet went to open gym on Saturday. 

Making cabbage&noodles (for superbowl), chik-fi-la sammies and fries, meat sauce spaghetti, copycat Olive Garden chicken over pasta, meatball sub sammies, sloppy joes & mac& cheese. I also made a some fruity pebbles muffins for Sunday morning (and then again the following Saturday, hah!) and a batch of oatmeal chocolate chip cookies for the weekend. Heather brought over pizza, wings, and breadsticks on Saturday night (thank you!) 

mini goal check in: 
20 minutes outside: 2 days
make-out: 5 days
affirmation:  7 days
out of bed by 5:45a: 1 day (!)