A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this moment.
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Intentional Outdoor Hours: 15+ (of 1000)
Beautiful weather on Sunday that we got to play outside with our cousins before they left us (until next month!) We rolled logs and rocks over to find bugs and explored some of the woods together. But then the weather has been so flip floppy otherwise - wind, rain, chilly, snow flurries, bright sun...it can't make up it's mind on what season it wants to be so everyone is still runny nosed and the house is a complete muddy mess everyday. I am officially ready for spring and it's only mid-February, ugh oh.
Reading and finishing The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han (a borrow from my student Lily). I started and finished If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin (a borrow from my student Alyssa). If He Had Been With Me broke my heart in two. I finished it before school on Friday and just felt brokenhearted for the rest of the day. I took a little one day reading break to sit in my grief and also because Brandon was feeling a little neglected after I finished two books this week (hah).
Fingers crossed, paperwork collected, and prayers sent up as Brandon headed into an interview this week. (gulp)
Celebrating our new 11 year old! Gemma had her birthday on Monday and she was thrilled to spend the day with Abba, Chum, and Kitty all day (they had no school for MLK Jr day). I made snickerdoodles to sing after dinner and then on Saturday, Gem and I went out to dinner just the two of us at Applebee's. We got her birthday snack for school, we celebrated with her team with donuts after her game on Sunday, had pie AND have some birthday party plans in the works...sheesh, we are so lucky to have this girl all we want to do is celebrate her!
Finally finishing the puzzle we had in the staff lounge at school! Omigosh, it took two months and lots of people putting in a piece or two during lunches and afterschool - but we did it! We were all weirdly proud and it was actually a fun team building experience.
Finding babies in our King's cake for Mardi Gras. I put 6 babies in the cake because I'm a sucker and I think everyone should get a little pretend luck!
Adjusting Violet's hip and back at the chiropractor. That little one's hip is always popping out of place during sport seasons. Thankfully my mom and dad were able to grab her from school and get her to the appointment on time (thank you!) and we have some strengthening exercises for her to work on so that we can keep that hip in alignment for the upcoming soccer season.
Organizing the staff potluck for Friday. We had pizza and karaoke in the library after the early dismissal. I ordered the pizza from our local favorite spot (Peezer's!) and a bunch of staff pitched in to pay while others had signed up to bring drinks and sides. I sang "Blame it on Your Heart" by Patty Loveless and many other teachers sang. Some were impressive and some had me laughing so hard my face and stomach actually ached by the end of the afternoon.
Birthdays everywhere we look! Besides Gemma's birthday, we also celebrated Pappy's birthday at our house with strawberry pie and Rusty's friend Hannah's birthday at the skating rink! We all sang to Wells for his half birthday (18 months!) this week too!
Teaching only four days since we had an in-service day on Monday (Happy Presidents day!) I had students in the building on Monday though with our Spanish club - they wanted to put on a staff appreciation taco lunch. Otherwise for the week - Spanish 1 learned about Carrie the dancing dog as a lead into our next novel Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro. Spanish 2 learned about Guatemala and starting the documentary Living on $1. Spanish 3/4 Honors finished La Casa de La Dentista and worked through figuring out when to use preterito vs imperfecto in the past tense in Spanish. I had a little hiccup with the Leave Me Alone passes (someone making copies?!) I got to the bottom of it and upped the price to be exempt from the final to make everyone be mad (hah)
Sporting with Rusty's first ever baseball practice! He is playing machine pitch this year and he had his first indoor practice on Sunday (he was so excited and Grey got him all suited up in his old baseball pants, hat, and high socks!) Violet had 1 soccer practice for her Sparks team, Gemma had 2 basketball games, Grey had pitching practice with his Jr high baseball team and practice with his Pony league team. Brandon had a basketball game at his old man's league.
Making roast beef au jus sammies, sheet pan kielbasa and veggies, spaghetti, Korean beef & rice. For keto we had egg roll in a bowl and blackened tilapia with cheese cauliflower and broccoli. I made snickerdoodles for Gem's birthday and chocolate pumpkin muffins for weekend breakfast too.
mini goal check in:
20 minutes outside: 2 days
make-out: 5 days
affirmation: 7 days
out of bed by 5:45a: 1 day
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