A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this moment.
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Intentional Outdoor Hours: 158+ hours (of 1000)
Memorial day was gorgeous and then the weather decided to go cold on us - enough rain all week to cancel almost all our games and even had us turning on the heat one night!?
Reading Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner
Listening to Good Hang - Amy Poehler Podcast and smiling the whole time. Truly and actually a good hang! Hah! I am cracking up the whole time and loving every guest. Maybe I need to go to Improv classes? I think maybe Improv people are my people?
Declutter operation: Kids' room. We have four in a room right now (Vi, Rust, Reddy, Olive) and their room has been giving me so much stress. It's not that it's just messy (it is) but that 3 of the 4 have hoarder tendencies (LOL) and there is just SO MUCH stuff in there. So I set my timer for 45 minutes for two days straight and did the dirty work of getting stuff out of there.
Kid coffee date for Gem, Violet, and Rusty. Gemma suggested to them a walk to our local micro-coffee shop Cafe Dodie to get drinks together. They also stopped at DG to pick up craft supplies for Violet's class project due this week (a memory box). Have I mentioned how wonderful it is to have teenagers in the house?
Celebrating at cousin Janell's bridal shower. The shower was at a beautiful little spot on a lake, so the boys had a good time fishing and playing frisbee outside while the girls played shower games inside. Very yummy food for lunch and all the details were so intentional and gorgeous. We got to catch up with our cousin Kara who is expecting her first baby this summer (we can't wait Gugga!) and I signed up to bring cookies to the wedding cookie table (a western PA tradition!)
Memorial day relaxation & productivity. B and Grey went fishing first thing in the morning with Bryce & Reed. Gemma went shopping with Colbi and her mom (thank you!) and Violet had Giada over for a playdate (God bless all my kids' friends who have become my bonus kids!) After a slow morning with some blogging and calendar-organizing - it was time to get to work with chores: laundry, farm chores, moving the baby chickens out of the den, mowing, planting and mulching!
End of the school year mayhem. At this point, we are just trying to get to the finish line! Red & Olive had a movie day at preschool (they loved it). Violet had another field trip (Johnstown Flood Memorial) and she turned in her memory box to share with a resident from Laurel View Village retirement community (so sweet!) Grey had finals this week which meant he was allowed to dismiss half a day (after the final) and almost everyday, he and his friends went bass fishing in a little pond in the Crestview neighborhood (thank you to the sweet woman who gave them permission!) Rusty got off the bus at Abba & Chums and slept over to catch the bus in the morning for school again (most fun day!)
Preschool Graduation for Reddy from St David's. They had the sweetest ceremony on Thursday night with songs and awards. Reddy won the "Respect Award" for being respectful and a role model. St. David's has been such a wonderful place for both kids this year - I am so grateful for the staff who loved them and helped them grow!
Wishing a happy heavenly birthday to Gigi. We sang over mini donuts and missed her just like every other day. xxo love you geeg.
Grateful for our farm babysitters this weekend: Pappy and Miss Heather & Caleb! We got updates on how everyone was doing and we came home to happy and healthy animals - thank you!
Road-tripping to Lancaster. Violet hitched a ride with her friend/teammate Bria (thank you so much Eva!) as she is a nervous wreck when it comes to her big family making her late. And thank goodness she did because by the time the rest of us got loaded up, we left around 6p and it poured down rain for almost the entire drive. We were thankful to make it to the tunnels just for a few minutes reprieve of the driving rain!? Instead of what normally takes us three hours - it took us four hours to finally get to the hotel where Vi and I stayed with the team, then another twenty minutes for B and the rest of the crew to get to our cousin's house in Elizabethtown.
Visiting with our Gilmore cousins in Etown during the soccer tournament. They are the most incredible hosts and we always have so much fun with them. Their son, Rowan was playing in the Alliance tournament too, like Violet; so we got to catch some of his games (he played my Somerset students on the first day!) We had dinner together at their house on Saturday night and lunch together on Sunday afternoon before Violet's championship game. We also made some plans for later this month to come back for a Hershey trip together! We love you, Gilmores - thank you for having us!
Teaching in the last 7 days of school for the year and sheesh is it tricky to keep everyone together. We continued watching Encanto in the elementary school while everything was all mixed up all week between awards ceremonies and incentive events. My expo 8th graders only had three days of class this week (they went to Kennywood on Tuesday!) and we did our final vocab list of classroom objects. Spanish 1 did some Verb Conjugation review with Spoons and took their final (if they didn't earn 4 LMA passes). Spanish 2 finished Robo en la Noche and took their book final which doubled as their class final.
Sporting with so many cancellations due to more rain and swamped fields. We had 4 soccer games and 1 baseball game cancelled this week! Violet had one Sparks practice, and then we were off to Lancaster for the Alliance tournament with Sparks (so much fun to be away with teammates and friends!). Gem played in an AAU basketball tournament this weekend last minute when her friend Peyton's team needed a forward. We bought some sneakers in at the ETown Walmart that morning and off she went! Grey had his end of season baseball banquet at The Tackle Box with his team and we picked up his new wooden bats for the city ball Colt league while we were in Lancaster..And with the closing of Varsity baseball season - it's officially bulking and football offseason time! On regular rotation around here we have breakfast sandwiches (2 eggs, ham or sausage, and cheese) or protein bagel with peanut butter and banana - both with glasses of milk. I got the kids signed up for CT summer soccer camp (and Gemma signed up to volunteer) and I sent over some info to the Varsity football Golf outing planning team.
Making broccoli and cheese soup, fried chicken wings, sheetpan crunchwrap supremes, crack chicken sammies, For the bridal shower I made a veggie tray with fiesta dip. For breakfast, I made funfetti muffins and for Reddy's preschool graduation I made a double batch of cake mix chocolate chip cookies (one to donate and one to save for us because my family are animals when it comes to these cookies!) and for the soccer tourney, I made a batch of peanut butter power balls.
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