Intentional Outdoor Hours: 13+ hours (of 1000)
It was snowy and cold again this week, but the chickens and shoveling had me earn a little more time to bump up to another hour for the year. We are all so anxious to get outside - while we were discussing the weather on the way to school this week, Violet shouted, "Go Away, Winter! We don't want to wear coats anymore!" #mood tho
Reading There's No Such Things as Bad Weather by Linda Akeson McGurk and falling more deeply obsessed with my commitment to outdoor time for myself and our kids (for all kids!) I also ordered our next books & brews book club book The Feeding and Care of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray but I didn't start it yet because I dove right into McGurk's book!
Missing B/Daddy while he spent three nights in Hershey for a school admin conference. I was so blessed by family and friends though who huddled around us to get through our week of activities and school pick ups and drop offs. (thank you abba, chum, stankans, and garretsons! I am so very grateful for all the ways you helped me get through this week!)
Catching a movie at the theater with the Stankan family! We haven't been to the movies in quite some time, but while B was out of town, I loaded up Sheila with the whole crew and we saw How to Train your Dragon 3 with Loni, Rourie, and Ivan. Grey was over the moon as he is an enormous fan of the How to Train your Dragon movies, series, and characters.
Kissing basketball season goodbye! Grey had his last game of the season with his CT team at the YMCA and they finished with their first win in overtime! At the very last moment of the game, one of the other team's players was so distraught over losing that he ran up behind Grey (who had the ball) and shoved him with both hands and Grey went flying head first across the floor (he was okay and got right up, albeit a little confused and shaken) and then the buzzer went off and the game was over. It was such a bizarre moment and the kid who had pushed him was overwhelmed with emotion and was hysterical (crying/freaking out). I saw that Grey was fine but watched in confusion as nothing happened: the refs didn't call a foul (it was overtime and everyone was waiting for the next game) and the kids' coach (who I learned also happened to be the kids' dad) didn't do anything about it - and I was mostly disappointed that it was really such a sports teachable moment lost for all the kids there.
--Grey, who has had sports expectations drilled into his 8year old brain for his whole life, got up and went through the hand shake line and when he got to the kid that pushed him who had tears streaming down his face, Grey told him good game while high fiving and also giving him a pat on the back too (like a, "we're cool, dude, chin up" move that he's seen his Coach Daddy do through the good game line).
--and I knew my reaction to the event was crucial too. So when I talked to Grey after the game I asked if he was okay (he was, mostly confused about what the heck happened) and I reminded him that sometimes people can get overwhelmed in a big game, but that never means you take it out on another player or the ref. And I praised him for his reaction and kindness/patience with the kid through the good game line and then we moved on to talk about the rest of the game.
--If we want a level headed, humble, accountable athlete - we need to react to the game with a level head, humility, and accountability as an athlete's parent/spectator. Our motto is, if you want to prove a point in sports, you do it with your talent and hard work: make another basket, score another goal, throw another touchdown; you move on to the next play with your head held high and play your game.
Sports are more than just sports.
Celebrating our babiest cousin's first birthday! Miss Remi Jane turned one this week and the kids and I made the trek out to WashPa to celebrate that sweet little squishems. While we were at the basketball game and Remi's birthday - B was working out at the High Ridge hunting preserve and put in a full 12 hour day walking through snow in the woods during the pig hunt. He was so sore and chilled to the bone when he got home; he had to practically thaw out before he could even speak in full sentences (hah!)
Teaching Somos Unit 4 in Spanish 1 (including target structures: habla, toma, and quiere ser), Spanish 1 Honors finished Brandon Brown Quiere un Perro and took their novel fill-in-the-blank final. Spanish 2 moved onto Somos Unt 7 (including target structures le ayuda, tienes que, and pasatiempo vocab). Spanish 2 Honors did a mini unit about Quinceñeras before getting ready to read Fiesta Fatal next week and Spanish 3 Honors did a mini unit about Costa Rica (including a travel research project on Google maps) before getting read to read their next novel; Robo en la Noche. (Also - cheering on our North Star boys' basketball team who made it through the first round of state playoffs!! On to the sweet sixteen - Go Cougars!!)
Making my mom's enchiladas with leftover taco meat, ramen noodles, swedish meatballs in the crockpot over mashed potatoes, and King's Cake (with babies in it!) to celebrate Mardi Gras/Carnaval on Fat Tuesday.
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