A glimpse into what it is like to be in our family just this moment.
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| dressing room selfie cred: Gemma, Peyton, and Colbi |
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| photo cred: Kelly D |
Intentional Outdoor Hours: 24+ hours (of 1000)
The wind this year has been relentless and our house has taken a beating. On Sunday before the big storm hit, Brandon was out on the roof trying to figure out a solution to the siding flapping and hitting all of our windows (only 2 year old windows!) Every night this week, Violet has asked why the wind sounds like that (both because it is actually very loud but doubly so as it slowly tears away the siding piece by piece). We lost a big pine tree from the Sunday winds (fully uprooted!)
Reading Cuckoo Clock Land by Anthony Doerr
Listening to Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Just absolutely incredible.
SCF Challenge - brunch at Uch's house. So much gabbing and coffee sipping and all the good soul-filling things that happen when sisters have time with each other. gah, thank goodness for them. I am so lucky to be their big sister.
No luck catching the leprechaun again this year! Violet, Rusty, and Reddy worked so hard on the trap this year. The hot glue gun working overtime to make the tiny pipe cleaner ladder, the gold-yellow paint to make faux gold pieces out of stones. Inside of the box, they set up a tiny drop fall trap. A trap within a trap! But alas, that sneaky leprechaun escaped again!
Smiling at the selfies that Gemma and her friends sent from the dressing room as they shopped for the upcoming spring semi-formal. They went on Monday which was a day off from school and they got Pappy to drop them off at the mall and then chauffeur them to Ulta and Main Moon for Chinese buffet afterwards! I know Gigi was smiling away thinking of Pappy taking Gemma and her friends to the mall for semiformal dress shopping. Grateful for you, Pap!
In-person meeting with my mentee and she is doing incredible and I am so proud to work alongside her. We worked through some plans for her first novel teach and talked about end of year mapping so that she can breathe easy through the last quarter for planning. I loved hanging out at Starbucks with her talking all things curriculum and lesson planning. Thankful for that grown up teacher hang!
Wishing a Happy Fels-Naptha Season to all who celebrate!
March madness! Everyone got their brackets filled out for our friendly family competition that is worth nothing but pride (hah).
Pulling out the Easter decor and putting away the St Patrick's stuff. All of our favorite Easter decoration is this hilarious chicken that "lays" eggs and sings "Momma Hen, back again. Squackin' Walkin' Let's begin. I'm about to show you how it's done. Baaawk, Lay an egg it's so much fun!" It's stuck in our head from now until Easter but we kind of love it.
Speaking of eggs, the chickens are fully back to laying again and we are loving all the eggs. I started fulfilling my weekly egg request from a fellow teacher at school and our parents have been snagging dozens every week or so. Yay for henny girls!
Sleepover for Violet with one of her besties Lillian. Lillian plays on Violet's Sparks soccer team and it is extra sweet because Lillian and Violet played soccer together on their very first 5u AYSO team with Coach Momma/Coach Tab. Lill and her parents still call me Coach Tab (adorable - love you guys!) Even though she is Violet's friend - you would have thought it was Olive's special playday. She followed them around and Lill was so patient and sweet with her. #LittleSisPerks!
Individual kid photos because I haven't updated them in at least a year. I have them sit in front of the white batten board in the dining room facing the sliding glass door (good natural light). The big kids are pros and come plop down and get ready to laugh (or fake laugh- hah! I'm telling you, PROS) until I get the one we both can agree on. Reddy and Loopy are still learning and ask a million questions about why we are doing it and move around all over the place so everything is blurry. We pulled it together and got it done!
Fangirl season with local high school's musicals in full swing. I attended my students' musical at Somerset on Friday night. They put on Shrek: The Musical and it was incredible. So proud of my kids and I was laughing for real and smiling so much to see all their hard work come to life. On Saturday night, the whole family headed out to the CT show which was High School Musical. So many of the kids' classmates, teammates, and friends were in the show. They did a great job and Olive has not stopped singing "Get your head in the game" and saying Red can be Troy and she'll be Gabriella since then!
Teaching a "watch" week at the elementary school (Gr4&5 watch Legend Quest episode) and Grade 3 watched a Wild Kratts episode about sea turtles..as everyone finishes their sea turtles - hah! Spanish Expo worked on their infographs for geography week and took the big map test. Spanish 1 read chapters 5-8 in Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro including making fortalezas in class, a dictation quiz, and a perspective flip activity. Spanish 2 continued Somos 15 and working on quehaceres vocab. We had a 4-day week with an Act 80 professional development day on Monday too!
Sporting with two Sparks soccer practices for Violet and two Gators soccer practices for Gemma. Grey had three baseball practices and two baseball games (hooray for baseball weather holding up in mid-March!) Gemma and Colbi were the yearbook photographers at Grey's home baseball game and Gem got some awesome action shots - she is really getting good! (proud of you, Roie!)
Making steaks on the Blackstone, spaghetti with meat sauce, church picnic chicken on the Blackstone with airfried zucchini and parm buttered noodles, General Tso's popcorn chicken over rice, egg sandwiches and bacon for dinner, For St Patrick's dessert we had Marshmallow Lucky Charms krispies and then another batch later in the week because the kids were asking for more (hah!) I also made Paula Dean's monster cookies because these kids are starving and peanut butter & oats help keep bellies full between meals.
Sourdoughin with discard chocolate chip cookies, discard blueberry muffins, and preparing a loaf (fold and stretch all the live long day, hah)
