Intentional Outdoor Hours: 524+ hours (of 1000)
Up only an hour this week. bleh. but still beating my time from any year before, so yay..?
Reading Juntos by Ally Condie and really loving the story (the English version is called Matched). Its a perfect fit with all those YA dystopian novels like Hunger Games/Divergent/Delirium/the Giver, etc that I enjoy. The added challenge of reading it in my second language has made it enjoyable and a brain stretch. I've been cataloging new vocab and pushing right along through it. I might have to add to my 100 small things list next year to read a certain number of books in Spanish.
Closing out football and cheer season with the annual banquet. I got to help organize and plan and it was cool to see everything come together. We are so lucky to be a part of a community that loves the kids so much - so many people who pull together to do so much for all the kids.
Enjoying family on Thanksgiving. We got up and spent a few minutes as six in the bed laughing and talking about the days plans before heading downstairs to watch the parade. I was busy making pumpkin roll for the day, when Brandon marches in carrying his buck skull to skin in.the.kitchen. I was all "get that deer head away from my pumpkin roll, you maniac!?" hahha, he went into the dining room instead while the kids huddled around to watch the procedure - geez, happy thanksgiving love this redneck family. We spent the day at two Thanksgiving dinners: Kuma's and Aunt Mar's sharing food and laughs with family and our newest baby cousin Wyatt.
Snapping our family photos with the incredible Tab James of Adliv Collective. It's been a solid two years since we've had our family pictures taken and I was so thankful to get into one of Tab's holiday mini sessions. It was freezing cold out and Grey had a fever of 100+, but we pulled it together and got it done. Tab's photos turned out beautiful, but not sharing here because you'll see them in our upcoming Christmas cards ;)
Decorating for Christmas, including our new pre-lit tree that we bought after the season last year. The kids all helped and were so excited to discover all their favorite holiday trinkets and books. I love listening to the older kids explaining to the younger kids where things go and their memories from last season was. The girls are very into the mistletoe this year (haha, too many Hallmark movies I think) and they try so hard to get me and B to 'accidentally' end up under it just so they can say, "uh oh, you two - look up!" (no seriously, too many Hallmark movies).
Celebrating Chumsgiving (my dad's birthday) with a trip to the Loretto Escape House. It was Dad, Mum, and my first experience with an escape house - and we all had so much fun! We escaped with a little more than 4 minutes remaining (!) and then we had dinner a local bar/restaurant.
Getting slammed with a virus. Grey got it first with a fever on Thanksgiving followed by Gem and then me and the babies. We had fevers, body aches, chills, and weird hallucination type feelings between sleep and awake (It was really strange - like hard to distinguish between what was reality and what was still a dream). B remained accidentally quarantined as he was out of the house for basketball and hunting season prep!
Teaching the last few days before break and hanging on for dear life (haha, the kids are always a little nutty). Spanish 1 continued practicing their school subject vocab including a quiz while Spanish 1 Honors read more of Capibara con Botas. We even had one day of 'the floor is lava' to keep their antsy bodies working productively (they loved it). Spanish 2 worked on their Corridas de Torros vocab and Spanish 2 Honors got their words and pre-work for our next up novel: Tumba by Mira Canion. Spanish 3 Honors finished up the imperfect super 7 and we celebrated break with a Friendsgiving meal together.
Making korean beef and green beans over rice, chicken and cheese taquitos, and B made a cajun turkey breast for our own 'turkey' Thanskgiving weekend. I made two pumpkin rolls to share our dinners. I have been feeling so unmotivated to cook - even with meal plans in place. I know it's a normal phase, but ugh. I want to get out of the rut!
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