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| photo cred: Uch |
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Intentional Outdoor Hours: 169+ hours (of 1000)
Up 20 hours this week despite the thunderstorms and tornado watches that rolled through our town again this week, but the beginning and the end of the week were beautiful and summery.
Reading and finishing Erotic Stories for Punjabi Women by Balli Kaur Jaswal. It was a very sweet story with so many interesting layers. Our book club group chat was quite hilarious through the reading of this book including lots of vegetable emojis, LOL. Hardly waiting for our book club meeting to discuss!
Working hard in the yard. We had a productive Memorial Day at our house as we got to work early in our front flower beds and enlisted the kids in helping. We pulled out about six overgrown bushes and then transplanted a few things to different locations within the bed. Then we all headed down to Stuver's Nursery to pick out some new plants and buy 15 scoops of mulch to do all the landscaping. The kids helped most of the day, they mostly loved playing the back of the dump truck filled with mulch - but they helped cart wheelbarrows, lay the mulch, plants flowers, water flowers, and sweep sidewalks. Everyone's hands were dyed from the mulch by the end of the day and we all had rosy sunkissed cheeks and noses. Everything finally looks ready for the summer (Brandon and I say, "it finally looks like someone lives here" hah) and we love the new arrangement in the front off the porch.
Singing Happy Birthday to our Gigi. It was kind of perfect that all our sports games were rain cancelled on Gigi's birthday so that we could scoop up all the kids and grab pizzas to spend the evening at her house celebrating. We were all teary-eyed as we sang to her after such a long and difficult year for her. But she is a warrior and I can't wait to see what this new year brings. We have a lot of fun to make up, Gigi! We love you and are so grateful to have you.
Suffering through a body crash...again. I got home from school on Thursday afternoon and went right to bed to sleep for three hours and then was in the bathroom until 2:30a so sick. I seriously need to find a way to take care of myself throughout the school year because my body has revolted every two months when I don't. When will I learn?!
Celebrating our Rustman's third birthday with a ninja party at our house on Friday night. We had a cardboard tower karate chop session, pool noodle swords, and bubbles (for a bubble wand/sword). It was a beautiful evening, so we ate outside and built a fire and let the kids go crazy on the trampoline. Rusty loved being the certain of attention (really loved opening his presents), and is pretty proud that he can show how many he is on his hands using the "OK" hand gesture. Everyone was so tired afterwards - including me; I fell asleep on the couch with Violet before my sister left! Thank you for helping us celebrate our three year old RustMan!
Spring Sporting but dealing with a lot of cancellations and postpone games thanks to the wacky weather all week. We did squeeze in a baseball game but all the soccer games and our Roxbury volleyball games were called on account of rain. Grey got called up to play with the CT majors team on Saturday at the Point Stadium downtown which was pretty cool (B never got to play there growing up and was laughing about how he had to wait until his son was nine years old to stand on the field, as a coach! hah!) After the game, the CV majors team asked if Grey could play with them because they were short a player - and so it was FIVE hours at the baseball field for us. I'm honestly so grateful to the three little kids who just went with the flow and played and ate massive concession stand snacks to pass the time.
Teaching the last week of school! I scheduled my final for the last full days of school (#savageteacher) and if students didn't have the LMA passes to be exempt - they were taking it! Besides finals, the week also consisted of all hands on deck to undecorate my room, which is a feat. Luckily, I have the sweetest teacher's assistant, Lysh, who was eager and dedicated to the task. She organized my whole closet (seriously could cry about how grateful I am for that!) and then enlisted some of her (taller) friends - hahha Lysh, only half kidding- to help take down all the other decorations (thank you Emily, Tristan, and Sofia). As students walked into my room they were visibly disgusted at the bare walls and many of them commented, "Oh Gosh, what is this place?" and "Ew, this is terrible" hahahhaa, glad to know that my decor does have an effect on them all year long. On the last day, it was a bit of a free for all in the school (we are only there for about an hour and half) and so my room got packed with kids who wanted to play Just Dance. With about ten minutes of school left, the fire alarm sounded (LOL) and we got one final fire drill in for the school year. I got a lot of sweet notes and another flat out amazing drawing from Damien. (#lovemykids #lovemyjob ) The teachers had to stay all day and then come in for a few hours on Friday - I got all grades finalized, some last minute organization done, and then loaded up my car with things to organize over the summer.
Making church picnic chicken on the grill, shredded chicken & pork loaded nachos, spaghetti, and frozen pizzas & ninja cupcakes for Rusty's birthday party.
Starting the Keto diet on June 1. Both Brandon and I. gulp. I will report back - first day we held strong despite being at the baseball stadium for five hours with no food we could eat (LOL). We are using the Carb Manager app to help us stay with the Macro ranges (who am I even talking like this?) but we're pretty excited and ready to stick it out for at least a month!
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