A glimpse into what it is like to be in our family at the start of a new year! Happy 2024!
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Intentional Outdoor Hours: 40 minutes+ (of 1000)
The kids are doing way better than me with all their sledding. Reddy, Rust, and Violet are the three main sledriders this year and the meatballs (rust & vi) have been so patient with helping Reddy get suited up to go out with them. Bless big siblings!
Reading and finishing One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I enjoyed it a lot and found myself rooting for each love story at different points in the book. Then B and I watched the movie for it (on Prime) and rolling my eyes about how much you just can't capture in a movie that was in the book. B was like - I liked it just fine and I went on 17 rants about all the parts I was sad didn't get into the movie (the description of Emma's grief was so insightful in the book, the arc of the sisters' friendship, Olive!, the tenderness and patience of Sam, the parents caring for Emma), ugh. Such is life, I suppose - glad I read the book! Next up is Unwind by Neal Shusterman which is our next Project Lit book with my student book club.
Cleaning & clearing on New Years day. B and I decluttered and organized the linen closet, the upstairs hallway, all the Christmas decorations (except the tree), the master closet, and two high paperwork clutter areas in the kitchen. It was exhausting but also glorious to get it cleared and clean on the first day of the year!
Stacking pine trees in the goat pen thanks to all the Christmas tree donations we received this week. The goats are so happy to get some yummy snacks (pines are their favorites!) and it is so good for their diet too in the winter when they are limited to hay and feed. The goaties were hopping all around and it is hilarious to see how quickly they can get a pine down to not a single needle left on it! Thank you so much to everyone who donated their Christmas tree to Studerbabies!
Starting our January tradition of a family puzzle! We got a autumn farmhouse scene - lots of sky (ugh oh) but everyone is excited to get started, especially me and Violet!
Meeting our new part-time nanny: Miss Baylee. She came to the house to shadow Miss Emma on Friday and meet all the kiddos. They all love her already and we are so happy and thankful to have her as a new addition to the Studerbabies circus. hah!
Getting back into a normal routine after the wildness of the holidays and the long winter break. It was a shock to all of our systems to wake up with an alarm clock again (hah!)
Sleepover sibling swap - Violet spent the night at the Maurer's house to celebrate her friend Bristol's birthday and we took one of her brothers (Abe) for a sleepover at our house. Rusty and Reddy were so happy to have Abey at our house for the night.
Creating my cellphone manifestation background for 2024. With the help of Canva, Pinterest, and my hopes and wishes for the new year - I created a background that I'll see multiple times a day to keep in the forefront of the kind of life I hope to create for this upcoming year.
Sending the boys off hunting with Uncle Jonny on Saturday. B, Grey, and Rusty all spent the day in the woods doing some late archery hunting and then got to hang at the Koch's house for the day.
Teaching and reviewing in Spanish 1 as we get back into the swing of things after the break. Spanish 1 reviewed vocab, translating simple sentences, and even did some writing and dictation practice. Spanish 2 started Somos Unit 13 and listened to El Chico del Apt 512 (a fan favorite!) Spanish 3 and 4 started learning the Preterito endings for regular AR/ER/IR verbs which can get a little boring but they were troopers about it.
Sporting with 3 wrestling practices for Rusty and Violet had 1 basketball practice. Gemma had 3 practices with the jr high basketball team, 1 practice with her own 6th grade basketball team, and did Stats for the jr high team twice. Grey had only 1 basketball game this week but 3 basketball practices. And B and I started weightlifting this week! Coach Mike got our apps/programs set up and we lifted twice this week. B is excited to be a good example for his football players and I have been doing a lot of research about perimenopause/menopause and just about every single thing I've seen has said lifting weights (not even hardcore, even just light) is recommended as women age. So, I'm excited too! The kids all love coming too - Grey and Gem actually lift for real and the other four do a little but mostly like doing 8 million box jumps and walking on the treadmill.
Making spaghetti & salad to try to get our bellies back into normalcy after 10 days of just eating random, rich holiday food (and snackies). During the week we had ham&cheese braid, baked ravioli, chicken&veggie biscuit casserole, spaghetti & salad, chicken patties with mac&cheese, meatloaf with roasted potatoes, and chicken/gnocchi soup.
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