Intentional Outdoor Hours: 12+ hours (of 1000)
Snagged a few hours being stuck outside in the iced over yard (LOL, see below) and most of the time I earn from taking care of our chicken girls. I've been daydreaming about sunny, warm days when I walk out the front door with no socks or shoes and sit on my front porch drinking a morning cup of coffee and reading a book. come on, groundhog! I thought you said spring was on its way!
Reading and finishing Educated by Tara Westover for our Books & Brews book club. I think what I liked most of the book was Westover's thoughts on how the past is created and changed through the memories of those that remember and past it on. How history and the past is colored and tainted and malleable. I started Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott next before I dive into our next book club book The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray.
Helping Gemma get rest and get better. Poor thing was so sick on Sunday morning and we were running back and forth between the bathroom and her bedroom a few times trying to minimize mess and bed sheet switching. She was completely exhausted and could barely lift her head, it was so pitiful! And while I'm buzzing around trying to get Gem taken care of, and B is getting ready to head in for CCD and Mimi's house - Violet decides she wants to heat up pizza and sets the microwave for 13 minutes. The pizza caught on fire and Grey ran into the kitchen and turned off the microwave but there was already about 2ft of smoke on the ceiling! I texted our CCD director and told her that it was one of those mornings as a mom and there was no way I was going to make it in time to teach. Oh sheesh, it is funny now - but was not fun or funny on Sunday morning! (also, nothing like a microwave pizza fire to remind you to update your smoke alarm batteries - here's YOUR reminder too!)
"Ice skating" in our yard, lol. After the sleet and rain on Sunday night, our entire yard was completely iced over on Monday when I stayed home with the kids on the Presidents Day holiday. Grey and Violet wanted to penguin slide down the hill, so I took some water out to the chicken coop and all three of us were trapped at the bottom of the hill after sliding down about 200 miles an hour. I couldn't even get into the chicken coop because the locks were all iced. Grey was half laughing/half shouting "HELP!!" and Violet was sobbing with her hat pulled off and one boot on. For a moment I was like, "Wait, what are we going to do here?!" When down the hill like superwoman (after being sick for 2 days with no snow pants, nor boots, nor gloves, nor hat) comes Gem sliding on her butt to try to rescue us. Good Grief! We finally managed to all get near the chicken coop (on our bellies swim style) and then rock climbed up the hill using the iced over footprints from previous trips to the coop. Brandon and I went out later to give the chickens their water and I insta-storied it and it was a total circus.
Raising a freshly minted seven year old Gemma. Our girls birthday was on Wednesday and lucky for her - it was also a snow day home from school! We sang over blueberry breakfast cake, measured her height (she's as tall as Grey was at 7 and a half!), and she picked dinner (meatball sandwiches and a side of spaghetti - hah!) We made together chocolate chip cookie cake with some icing for the top for after dinner. Gem has been watching "Nailed It" and baking youtube shows, so when we have the icing ready she says, "Can we use a piping bag so I can pipe on some rosettes." I about died laughing. I let her and thought her face was going to crack from how big her smile was. We are busy planning her birthday sleepover which will be Just Add Magic themed!
Celebrating more birthdays! The day after Gemma's is our Pappy's birthday and we headed over to Pap and Gigi's to celebrate with dinner and singing. And Violet and Rusty felt very cool and 'big kid' when they went to their own friend, Hunter's, fifth birthday on Saturday. It was Jurassic Park themed and the kids had so much fun running around and seeing their 'school' friends outside of daycare/preschool. For the favor, they got a diy'ed dinosaur dig kit and Violet spent almost the rest of the night and much of Sunday digging her dino out! She was a determined little paleontologist! (thank you Ms. Kayla - we can discuss the mess that came along with that later - hahaha, just kidding!)
Cheering on Grey as he continues with his CT basketball league. He played a pretty aggressively on Saturday at the game and ended up slamming his noggin off the floor fairly hard. He took a little sit and got some water and then was back out there. He had 11 points - his personal high so far! Gemma still likes learning to keep the book and carries it to his game and is so proud when Grey asks her for his official point count at the end of the game.
Spring sports season'ing with the start of indoor baseball practices two nights a week for Grey and now Brandon who is going to be head coaching Grey's team this year. I got my coach's folder for Violet's AYSO soccer team and selected my practice schedule nights - but we have a few more weeks until that starts. Violet is super excited to start soccer and will tell anyone within ear shot, "I'm playing soccer this summer!" Gem is moving up to U-8 so she'll have a 'real' coach (hahaha, not her momma) and I'm excited to see how she shines. Gigi and Pappy got her new soccer cleats because this girl is still growing like a weed!
Teaching for such a short week between Presidents day, 2hr delays, and a snow day - hah! Spanish 1 continued reading Capibara con botas, Spanish 1 started reading Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro while Spanish 2 just finished Brandon Brown! Spanish 2 Honors is working through the Somos Unit 14 from Martina Bex and Spanish 3 is continuing to work through La Casa de la Dentista.
Making blueberry breakfast cake for Gem's birthday, and pancakes for breakfast whenever possible because RustMan is a pancake eating machine. We had chicken and veggie casserole, Korean ground turkey over rice, and meatball sandwiches and spaghetti.
Loved this post and had to laugh about your kitchen fire - we had an exciting experience in that department too! Sophia was trying to make toast when it caught on fire. I heard her calling, ran in and was able to quickly blow it out, but whew! After all the excitement, we realized that our lovely two-year-old had stuffed a plastic stylus pen in the bottom. Never a dull moment around here!
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