A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this moment.
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| selfie cred: Abba |
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| photo cred: Rusty |
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| photo cred: Lena (team photog) |
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Intentional Outdoor Hours: 341+ hours (of 1000)
yipee - my Black eyed Susans are blooming and they look beautiful and make me so happy! Lots of in and out of the house this week with the siding project which also meant lots of flies in the house (my least favorite thing). We put up our new swing and the kids love it but it's hard to use without a grown up pushing them (much to their joy) so I spent some time out there giving 'under duckies'
Reading and finishing The Sirens by Emilia Hart. I liked it - three stars! I picked back up in Good Material by Dolly Alderton because my book club meeting for that book is next week!
Listening to and finishing Life's too Short by Abby Jimenez. Another great rom com with characters I loved!
Celebrating Miss Hannah at her baby shower. We are so happy and excited to meet this sweet baby boy in late August. She looked beautiful and the shower was sweet and perfect. Also, the apple cashew salad was off the charts delicious and made me so happy!
Working on redirecting towards gratitude for one of the kiddos. Just a lot of growing pains going on over here - wanting to be grown but also wanting to be little. We had a long talk about all the grumbling and the intense disappointment over every tiny little thing not working exactly as hoped. So there are going to be more hugs and one-on-one time with Mom to help (requested) and a shared daily gratitude journal going on to try to refocus on all the good stuff that happens everyday - even if not everything goes exactly as we wish!
Mealplan for vacation complete!
Siding Project!! It was two full days and Friday morning and the house is sided! We even rented a lift and had dumpster delivered to get the job done! It was pretty messy and loud with hammering and a lot of beep, beep, beeping for three days straight around here. Thank goodness for all the handy fellas we know and love who were willing to give their time, muscle, and patience to work together for our home. Thank you to Mr. Darren, B, Chum, Pappy, Uncle Jonny, Albert, Kevin, and even Grey's friends Bryce and Reed! It looks so beautiful and we feel like real grown ups with a real house (hhhahah!) Such a huge relief to get that project done - thank you, thank you, thank you to these men of ours!
Taking a much needed chill. I was so exhausted from the week; even though I wasn't hanging off the side of the house hanging the siding - I did manage all the other things: cooking for all our workers, cleaning up, managing flies in the house (LOL, but for real), regular chores, regular scheduling, Bullet with his anxiety and bowel and geriatric issues (5 times I cleaned up diarrhea?!), driving the kids to all the places, making last minute hardware shop trips, farm chores, prepping and making lists for the beach next week...my brain and body were absolutely fried and so B took all the kids to Pappy's for a night swim and I had a cup of tea and watched the 5 Year Engagement (for about the 60th time in my life) and just chilled. It was bliss.
Haircuts for the girls. Ms Jo got all the girls trimmed up and looking fresh with healthy hair. Violet actually wanted several inches off and it looks adorable - I love it! It fits her spunky little self perfectly. Gem wanted to keep most of her length but Ms Jo got some of the thickness out of it (thank goodness) and Olive was delighted to go first with a trim and then play in Giada's toys while she waited for everyone else!
Dropping off six bags of clothes donation at the thrift store. It seems like it would be the simplest part of the project - after going through all the clothes and bins and sorting and organizing - surely it is easy to just drop them off. But when I tell you this is the part that I get stuck at every time, I cannot stress this enough. The dropping off is the part that is so overwhelming for me - not because I don't want to part with it but because loading it up and driving there is just the needle that breaks my back. So I'm proud that I just put my big girl pants on and did it!
Time with family and friends: We all went night swimming at Pappy's on Sunday night and then another night swim for B and the kids on Friday! Rusty got some time fishing and hanging out at the Que with Abba and Chum who let him bring friend too for a special day. Instead of sleeping out in a tent that night in the severe thunderstorms (!), Chum and Abba dropped Rust and Brody at our house and they got to sleep out in our den playing ping pong and watching the Minecraft movie. Colbi came over to do Gemma's eyelashes, go to the baseball game, and then let us hug all her puppies at her house! Grey went fishing with Chum at the pond they used to fish when Grey was a little boy (so sweet). I made a meal to deliver to a local family/teammate who is going through treatments (xxox)
Talking openly to the kids about the genocide of Palestinians. They have a lot of questions and I have facts to give them but no answers that would provide peace or humanity. It's just a feeling of deep despair and helplessness. I got a garbage response from my local representative after I left a voicemail there. To go about my day means I have to intentionally 'ignore' the genocide and weaponized starvation of children and civilians. And the Epstein files situation is insane. tell me you're in a cult without telling me.
Teacher prepping. My Spanish teaching partner Ella and I met at my house to begin talking about the school year. It was so nice to catch up and begin to even just remind ourselves we are teachers (LOL). After our chat, I order El Silbon de Venezuela to read with my Sp2 students this year which makes me feel like I at least have one little question answered for next school year.
Sporting with equipment pick up for the youth football and cheer league. Rusty picked number 8 and got his helmet and pads for minors football (it will be his first year of tackle!) and Violet got her uniform and poms for Majors cheer. God bless the volunteer coaches and league board members - we are so grateful for you! Gemma had three strength & conditionings, did two summer workouts with the Varsity soccer team, and one jr high soccer kickaround. Grey had five strength & conditionings, two Colt city baseball games, and a 7v7 football tournament. I met with fellow booster member (and dear friend!) Stacy to make plans for the upcoming annual Red&White scrimmage and picnic during football camp (we met at The Morning Grind and I had a Campfire Cold Brew and I then I couldn't stop thinking about it and ordered another one later in the week on the way to Grey's baseball game. So delicious!!) I also made the basket tags for our sophomore raffle baskets for the golf outing (Thank you Becky for organizing the baskets!), I agreed to be team mom for the jr high girls' soccer team, and I completed the necessary athletic forms online for Grey and Gem to participate in fall sports.
Making spaghetti with grilled chicken on top, baked chicken and potatoes, a double dinner of sloppy joes with mac and cheese and roasted broccoli (one for us and one to deliver to our friends). We had chicken and gravy over mashed potatoes, meatloaf with parm pasta, and ordered in pizza. For all our siding-hanging working men, I made lunch to fuel them: hot dogs with sauerkraut and perogies, salsa chicken tacos, and meatball sub sammies. For Wednesday weightroom, I made pumpkin-chocolate mini loaves nd for desserts, I made cowboy cookies and peanut butter oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
Miles Walked: 3 miles!
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