A glimpse into the most wonderful, laziest, reading-iest, who-knows-what-day-it-even-is, week of the year.
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| photo cred: Becky C |
Intentional Outdoor Hours (final count): 572+ years (of 1000)
The wind!? High wind advisory for several days in a row. Then it snowed which really did nothing to encourage me to go outside (hahha). I helped Brandon a few times with the farm chores, but other than that - I tried to stay cozy in the house because I am a big winter baby.
Reading and finishing The Christmas List by Maren Moore. It was fine; an easy read with a bit of spice but holiday themed.
Listening to and finishing My Friends by Fredrik Backman, but going to be honest I had to force myself to finish it. I loved the characters and plot, but Backman's use of hyperboles, similes, and adverb intensifiers always have me distracted and annoyed. Like one or two every few chapters would be beautiful writing - but it's like one or two each paragraph!? Every time there was another one, I found myself actually rolling my eyes. Hah, sorry not sorry for being a writing snob. (I've felt this way about other books of his too, this was one of my book club choices from earlier in the year).
Books Read - Final Count: 31
Watching My Old Ass - so good. loved it. Recommend it, and I want to watch it again. Also watched Regretting You which was okay (I'm guessing the book is better, as always, but I did not read that Colleen Hoover).
Deep cleaning and moving our bedroom around for the winter. We moved the bed and dressers around, put away all the Christmas theme clothes and accessories back into the School Dress up Tub, dusted and vacuumed, changed the sheets, hung up clothes (plenty of things that just needed done but in the hustle of the holidays was not even close to the top of the priority list). It looks and feels so much better to have things cleaned and organized; makes me happy to start the new year in a fresh way. Olive said, "I can't believe you changed your bedroom into a hotel room!" Hahhah! It's easy to impress this girl!
Laundry. So much laundry but lots of time to do it, so not complaining.
Officially open to accepting Christmas trees for our goaties. We've already received a few and the goaties are so happy to get some green to eat after so much hay and grain since winter. Thank you to all who upcycle their tree - our goaties and we appreciate it!
Visiting with the Vorndrans at our house. While in town, they stopped by our house for a few hours to hang out and play. So grateful they made time for us while visiting everyone in town (we love you!) We had snacks, chatted, and the kids all played together. Basically, perfect.
Coffee date with Heather. So glad to stop by Heather's house as she recovers from surgery to sit and yap over coffee and donuts all afternoon. Very glad she is healing and resting (she and I have the same problem in which we have trouble resting, hah).
Carpet shopping! Brandon and I took an afternoon to stop by Home Depot and look into the carpet install process. We have been needing new carpet upstairs for a long time. We picked out our carpet and started the process and I am so glad. We have a lot of stuff to do before carpet install day (cleaning up, moving stuff), but we're on the books for someone to come out and measure to give us a final quote for all of the upstairs and the steps. What a difference it will make to get that done - I can hardly wait!
Plumbing projects for Brandon and Pappy. Thank goodness for handy men. They worked on fixing the leak from the shower (which is why we have a hole in our kitchen ceiling) and then moved to the basement to work on a leaky sewage pipe (?!)
Trying out all the new Christmas stuff. I watercolor painted and did a little yoga aerial strap poses with Violet. Rusty, Reddy, and Grey had boxing matches and Gemma made lots of different kinds of coffee drinks with her espresso machine. Mini hoop basketball is hanging back up in the kitchen and even though it is so loud and kind of annoying to have a mini basketball flying at my head while I cook - there is something I love about having the kids near me.
New Years Eve! Grey went to Gabey's house (long standing tradition) and I stayed home to read (!!) while B took the kids to Uncle Ray's house for a little on NYE evening. It was wonderful to be home and get a shower and just read in silence on the last day of the year. Then B came back around 10p with our kids plus three (cousins Audra, Rowan, and Logan). The kids played Cards Against Humanity Family edition (a favorite of ours!) and we stayed up until midnight to watch the ball drop and then I joyfully went to bed!
Time with family and friends: Olive got a whole day play day with Pappy all by herself (she was over the moon about it!), Violet had a sleepover at her friend Evaley's house, Gemma went bowling with her friend and teammate Arabella,
Grading a little every day to get through the gigantic stack of papers I brought home for break! I also started lesson planning and trying to get myself together so the first day back to school is not such a blunt force to the face.
Sporting with one basketball practice for Violet (Rusty and Reddy tagged along). Three basketball practices for Gemma and three basketball practices and a sports massage with Miss Emma for Greyson.
Making copycat Panera broccoli and cheese soup, homemade pizza, chicken alfredo with roasted broccoli and fettucine, ham & navy bean soup, tacos, Pioneer Woman lasagna, pork roast with sauerkraut in the crockpot and sausage biscuit balls for new years eve. We had a so many leftovers and doctored up leftovers because our fridge is absolutely packed with food from the holidays. For desserts, I made a double batch of m&m cookies and rice krispie treats.
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