A glimpse into what it is like to be in our family just this moment.
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| photo cred: Heather |
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| photo cred: Heather |
Intentional Outdoor Hours: 24+ hours (of 1000)
Fishing camp really increased my numbers this week. We had a couple nice spring-ish days this week and the sunrises and sunsets are dazzling. I can sense that spring is on her way, I can hardly wait for my kids to be outdoor tired, dirty, and happy again.
Reading High Achiever by Tiffany Jenkins and The Body by Bill Bryson. Both are great!
Listening on my commute to Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister and really liking it so far! What a concept!
A happy half birthday to our Violet Mary! Nine and half and full of sass! B took her for a Dairy Queen blizzard while they were out running errands (she was thrilled). So at home we measured her height and sang to her over a leftover cookie!
Adding chickies to our family. Brandon can only be trusted for so long in Tractor Supply in the spring and he ran out of self control this week (hah). He and Olive brought home 16 new little chickie babies because that is always just what we need. The kids are obsessed and the sounds little peeps chirping make us all believe in Springtime.
Do you ever feel like all you do is clean up poop? HAH. if you have children or pets, then I know you know. Our two old dogs (bullet and trixie) are randomly having potty issues - it's not consistent which is even more annoying. So I had to steam scrub the boys' room carpet this week. Now we have the chickies that need their cage cleaned twice daily. The guinea pigs need daily cleaning. Osa got into dirty diapers on the back porch trash (ripped to shreds, niiiiiice) And Reddy is still trying his darnedest to make the potty trained transition but still not there all the way. So yeah, I pretty frustrated cleaning up everybody's literal poop these days.
A fun afternoon for the big kids and the little kids. Heather took the big kids (Grey, Gem, Vi, and Caleb) to Monroeville to spend the day jumping at Skyzone Trampoline Park and I took the little ones (Rust, Red, and Liv) to Altoona to spend the day sliding, climbing, and arcade'ing at Slinky Action Zone with Kate and Charlie.
Mentored Youth Fishing Day! We spent the day in Bedford with the Rummells, Moores, and some seasoned mentors (Pappy, Uncle Ray, and Mark) catching all kinds of fish and kissing them before releasing them back into the stream. Osa came with us and she was pretty good (only chewed through a tie-down and her leash, good grief!) The weather was chilly but mostly clear skies and everyone had a great time. We didn't dye eggs for Easter but we did kiss some fish and sit by an open fire and there were a lot of smiles and snacking and laughter- so ya know, it all shakes out in the end.
PCT trail update for Kitty & Bryan: By Saturday, they made it to Julian/Scissors Crossing which is at mile 77! Kitty is posting the coolest update reels on Instagram so I hope you are following her ( @kankla ) Despite some weather this week, they are still trekking and having an awesome time. I got to facetime with her and it was everything to see her face and hear here laugh and get her updates firsthand. Miss them so much but so obsessed with their journey!
Teaching a short week due to spring break. The elementary school specials finished up their capys and learned about Merengue music! I ordered from the Coffee Corner elementary club (they practice math while taking orders!) and they delivered my iced caramel macchiato & a pudding cup! I forgot that it was delivery day and it was the best mega-sugar pick-me-up ever! I got a new group of 8th graders for Spanish Expo and they had their first two days of class. Spanish 1 finished their question packets and got new vocab words. Spanish 2 presented their De pequeño projects and then got their new vocab words. Both levels learned about the Easter tradition of Casacarones on the early dismissal day.
Sporting with one Sparks soccer practice for Vi and Gemma had a end-of-season basketball party at 814 Lanes and Games (thank you Coach Bryan!) Grey had 4 baseball practices and 1 Chaos basketball practice. The kids and I all went to Meet the Coach Night for AYSO this week. I am coaching Reddy and his 4U team and assistant coaching with Eva for Violet and Rusty's 10U team. Gemma is playing 12U and it was fun to see all our soccer friends again. Brandon and the Varsity football team did their March rep checks on Sunday night.
Making baked lunchmeat sandwiches and roasted broccoli, chicken fajitas with rice & beans, pork chops, and Korean Beef with green beans over rice. For desserts - I made a batch of pumpkin chocolate chip cookies on Sunday because I was hungry for them (hah). For fishing camp, I made buffalo chicken dip and cowboy cookies. We brought hot dogs & cheddar brats and even carted the Blackstone all the way out there (hah!)
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