A glimpse into what it feels like to live in our home just this moment.
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| photo cred: Uch |
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| photo cred: CT Media class |
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| photo cred: Kelly D (thank you!) |
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| photo cred: Abba |
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| photo cred: Daily American |
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
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| photo cred: Michael O'Ship |
Intentional Outdoor Hours: 12+ hours (of 1000)
The weather is so flippy floppy - we had snow and ice (enough to get a FID this week!?) and then by Saturday, it was absolutely gorgeous and the kids were outside riding dirt bikes and in barefeet. These little hits of sunshine and warm are starting to not cut it...I need real spring to arrive. I am just so over the cold!
Reading The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough and rereading Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. We had our Lit Ladies book club meeting (thank you for hosting Jacinda!) and we got to chat about our last two books. It is always so nice to catch up and talk books with friends! I updated the POTF Reading club group page on facebook.
Scheduling the cats for a vet appt. The gasp I gasped when I saw a neighborhood facebook post that featured a Ring camera photo of our cat Blaze. The neighbors were asking if anyone knew who owned this chatty but sweet cat. Good grief?! How do we have 14 acres and surrounded by woods and our cats are down exploring the neighborhood!? The neighbors have been so sweet about him (I messaged everyone) and they said they actually enjoy his visits- honestly, how lucky we are to be surrounded by sweet people! Regardless, I got them scheduled for a visit and future neuter appointment to try to keep them closer to home. They are most likely out there looking for girlfriends, and nobody needs that!
Re-stocking the freezer with an order from Fisher's Country store! We stocked up on ground beef and bacon. Brandon always likes to sneak in a completely random item too and this time it was 25lbs (?!) of mini hershey kisses. I mean, what the actual heck? They just come loose and unwrapped in a giant box. I will use them in place of chocolate chips (also we are just literally eating them by the handful too).
Smiling about the girls working together (although it is turning out to be an enormous mess). Gemma cut up a bunch of shirts and sweatshirts that she has to patchwork a spirit crewneck but enlisted Violet and her sewing machine to help. The two of them are working side by side sewing piece by piece but it looks like an explosion in the dining room. Rule 5 of raising kids: let the messes happen - someday your house will be clean, today is not that day though.
Time with family and friends: Olive got a day home from school and spent it with Abba and Chum (thank you!), Rusty had some play time with his friend Abe who got off the bus with us to go to baseball practice, Violet had sewing class with Kuma, and I stopped to visit my nephew fellas after book club to get in some tickling and huggies. I took all the kids to visit at Abba and Chum's house on Saturday where we hung out and the kids played badminton in the front yard (their favorite!)
Teaching only four days because we got another FID this week and multiple 2hr delay starts!? (Please winter, go away). The elementary school is still watching Pachamama this week and I got a new batch of eighth graders for my Spanish Expo class. Spanish 1 started the Super 7 irregular verbs conjugation week including Personal Interviews with questions and videos with a partner. Spanish 2 did a quick review on verb conjugation (present, regular AR, ER, IR and super 7) then we took a dive into Stem-changing verbs! I took in five cereal boxes (and some kids brought their own) to start their Verb-o's cereal box projects!
Sporting Reddy had one coach pitch baseball practice, Rusty had two minors baseball practices. Violet had one Sparks soccer practice and Gemma had one semifinals Gators indoor soccer game. Grey had four basketball practices, two team dinners, and a District championship game vs. McConnellsburg at UPJ. Brandon and Violet supported four of our football players at the weight lifting competition at Ligonier on Saturday (good job football players!) We participated in the bus send off for the district playoff game (lining the parking lot, honking and flashing lights as the basketball team bus left for the game). Brandon had a football coaches meeting too. I had a lot of paperwork to finish up for sports - we RSVPed to the basketball banquet, made a basketball hype video for the championship game, I submitted our donation for the coaches' gifts, we turned in our youth baseball fundraiser money, finalized the big kids' paperwork for spring sports, and I got my 6u AYSO soccer team roster this week.
Making instagram chicken with parm & pea pasta, slow cooker shredded beef and cheddar sammies, beef vegetable soup (with the leftovers from the sandwiches), copycat Olive Garden chicken pasta, meatball sub sammies, crispy shrimp alfredo pasta. For breakfasts we had pancakes and bacon on the 2hr delay day and on the snow day, I made mini zucchini bread loaves. For desserts I made rice krispie treats for book club
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