A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just this moment.
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
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| NFHS screen still |
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| photo cred: Maple Ridge - the stuffie library sleepover event! |
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| photo cred: Mrs. Mazz |
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| photo cred: Becky C |
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
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| photo cred: B |
Intentional Outdoor Hours: 3+ hours (of 1000)
Reading By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult and really loving it. We also finished our book for the school professional development book club: All Learning is Social and Emotional by Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, and Dominque Smith. I submitted my last reflection on the book since I couldn't attend this last meeting (doc appointment and basketball game!)
Annual check ups with our family doctor for Brandon and I. We both still want to get our annual bloodwork done too (on the list to do), but all looks good for both of us. I asked the Doc about my protruding collarbone (yikes!) He suggested getting an xray first to check out the bone: broken unbeknownst to me and healed wrong (?) or maybe arthritis/ osteo from overuse and abuse(?) It does not hurt, but it definitely noticeable to me and Brandon. It's only been noticeable to anyone else after I point it out and then it's very obvious, but otherwise no one really notices. I will feel better to get it checked out, that's for sure!
Filling out paperwork with the Bedford Humane Society hoping to get selected as the forever family for a sweet puppy named Grinch. The kids all have their fingers crossed and hopes up - we will see though because I am sure that many, many people have applied for that cutie pie. (I have been aching for an inside pup. I just feel so much comfort to have a dog in the house as country folk. So if not Grinch, then we will keep looking!)
Seven Springs getaway with my sisters. Kevin was the mastermind behind the weekend actually, it was part of Uchie's Christmas gifts to get away and be pampered with her sisters (best gift! thank you Kev!!) We got to sleepover at the Seven Springs ski lodge for two nights and mostly we just rested and slept (Hahhahaha, tired mom fantasy weekend), but we also each got a Swedish massage, ate yummy food, took very long hot showers, and laughed and yapped. Basically perfect sister time. (xxox scf)
Laughing still about how on Friday night when I got to Seven Springs, it was so snowy and so packed that I just parked far away and had Uch come find me near the Foggy Goggle (well known bar at the slopes). And while I'm waiting for her in a kind of dark stairwell in the corner like a complete weirdo, I hear, "Señora Studer?" Five of my former students (2022 graduates!) were there skiing and hanging out together - I love that they were all still together! We hugged and I got the scoop on where they are all now. And while I'm standing there surrounded by a semi-circle of these 5 6ft+ dudes, my sister peeks around the corner and mouths, "Are you okay?!" LOL forever. I was like, "Kids!! this is my baby sister!" (love my kids, love my job, once my kid - always my kid!)
Time with family and friends. Olive's little stuffie got to have a sleepover at the Maple Ridge library for the stuffed animal sleepover event! Red and Olive both got to hang out with the Jr High Student Council on the early dismissal day too (the Student Council babysits all the teachers' kids while we finish up the Act 80 day!) Violet got to spend Friday afternoon with Kuma to pick out her supplies and materials for her upcoming sewing class (Kuma is taking her and they will complete a quilt by the end of the 3month weekly class!) Violet and Gemma had a playday with the Lasure sisters. Gemma went to the movies with her friend Abigail and Willow and Gemma babysat Baby Baker on Saturday too. Grey had a sleepover at the Conns house. I got to visit for a little while with my friend Renee at her bookstore Laurel & Leaf when I picked up my book order from her.
Teaching in the change-over week between quarters always has me a little wacky; all the kids trying to turn in last minute work and always having grading that needs done. But this week too, I am packed up my entire elementary school room to move for the construction project! I spent all of Friday packing up my room (thank you to the substitute who covered for me!) and then unpacking it in the LGI room downstairs. It will be an adjustment period as we (kids and I) get logistics and procedures down in a new place but I think it will be good. The elementary school learned about Ecuador (they loved the marine iguanas and anacondas!) I finished up my week with this 8th grade group for Expo and got a new crew on Thursday at the turn of the marking period. (hello second semester!) Spanish 1 continued practicing their Clothing vocab and using target structures from Somos 5. Spanish 2 started reading El Ekeko novel chapters 1-3. I had a FOR club meeting after school too!
Sporting with two basketball games and one indoor soccer game for Violet. Gemma had three basketball practices, two basketball games, and one indoor soccer game. She has also been taking yearbook photos at multiple games a week for Varsity boys' and JrHigh boys' basketball. Grey had pitching for baseball, three basketball practices, two basketball games, and a sports massage with Miss Emma.
Making crockpot brisket with mashed potatoes, crack chicken sammies, Pioneer Woman skillet lasagna, Instagram chicken with roasted Ranch potatoes and green beans, tacos, and meatball sub sammies. For desserts, I made devil's food cake/ pumpkin/ chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles (that I froze from Christmastime).
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