Monday, January 20
Monday was MLK Day so B and
the kids were off, and we had a nice leisurely day together. We spent the morning in our PJs which I was
especially thankful for since our Sunday morning plans for being lazy were
interrupted by an acute care visit for Olivia’s Fifth Disease. Sunday evening I had started feeling slightly
itchy but didn’t see anything on my body, so I chalked it up to sympathy
itching since Olivia had been itching from her rash, but Monday morning I woke
up and realized that I had gotten it, too.
Womp womp. Haha. Fortunately mine hasn’t been too bad, and I’m
typing this on day six, so I’m hoping that it’s about as bad as it’s going to
get!
Olivia had a 100 days of
school project to work on, so she and I spent some of the morning working on
it. She was required to decorate a shirt
with 100 items on it and this was what we went with…
Tuesday, January 21
Tuesday I spent the whole
morning at the kids’ school helping out with raffle ticket data entry. We’ve been getting together once a week to
get them all in and we only have one more week to go! The rest of the day was spent getting a few
things done around the house and then lounging around watching This is Us and drinking hot tea after the kids went to bed.
Wednesday, January 22
Wednesday was a gym
morning. I was only able to make it one
day last week, but I did hop on my stair stepper a couple of times, too, to
make sure I got in my workouts. After
the gym I had a couple of errands to run as well as an appointment, and then I
had a really productive afternoon before I had to pick up the kids. I got the house photographed for my
Valentine’s Day Home Tour that will be up tomorrow and I also put together a
gorgeous Valentine’s Day charcuterie board and got it photographed as
well. You can see that post here if you
missed it. Here’s a little
behind-the-scenes shot for ya!
Wednesday evening after
dinner I sat around the kitchen table with the kiddos watching them draw and
color, and Olivia decided to play “school.”
Every morning her teacher does a morning message where she writes a
short letter to the class and then the class works together to dissect the
message, locate the capital letters and punctuation, count the words, count the
sentences, and recognize the nouns and verbs and such. Olivia decided to do her own version of the
class letter and I thought it was the dang cutest thing ever. I played school constantly when I was little,
even going as far as to ask for school supplies one Christmas when I was in third
grade. She reminds me so much of myself
at that age and I love that so much.
Thursday, January 23
Thursday was the 100th day
of school and Olivia got to wear her shirt that we made. Jacob’s all grown up now so he had no 100 day
project to show off, but his class did get to participate in some fun 100 Day
activities throughout the day at school.
Thursday evening, one of my
little artists decided she wanted to draw her favorite stuffed animal, her
beloved Sheepie, and she asked me to take a picture of her with them. Not gonna say no to that! Sheepie is one of the most special things in
our entire house. When Jacob was two and
I was very heavily pregnant with Olivia, we took him to Toys R Us to let him
pick out a gift to give to the new baby, and he chose this precious pink
sheep. She’s had it right by her side
since she was born and I just love that it was a gift from her big
brother. She takes that thing everywhere
and it makes me so happy.
She also drew a picture of
me that evening complete with my grey striped sweater and pink rain boots… she
even remembered to draw my dark roots.
Hahahaha.
Thursday night we resumed
bible study after a long break during the holidays and it was so nice to get
back together with my girls. Jessica had
some yummy mini quiches and pastries for us to snack on and we all opened a
bottle of wine. Just as we were getting
settled in, one of the other girls came in late holding a cake carrier that I’d
recognize anywhere – my mom’s that she’s had since before I was born! My momma works at our church office and she
had made one of her famous Death By Chocolate Cakes to celebrate one of our
priest’s birthdays. There were
leftovers, so Kimberly (who works with my momma in the church office) had
brought them so they wouldn’t go to waste.
It was like having a little piece of home right there at bible
study. It was just one more reminder of
how grateful I am to be a part of our wonderful church and school family… we’re
all connected. <3
Friday, January 24
Friday I had nothing on the
agenda for the first time all week and I was happy about that because the
weather was so yucky. I dropped the kids
off first thing at 7:30 and then I was back home in this cozy little spot with
my hot cinnamon tea and my fuzzy blanket by 8 AM. I spent all morning working and then I spent
the afternoon cleaning out our bathroom cabinets. I got rid of lots of old expired medicines
and other junk, and now our medicine cabinet is nice and organized! Side note, Brian is now hoarding even more
Chap Stick than he was last year when I cleaned out this cabinet. Hahahaha.
Friday evening B picked up
veggies from Cracker Barrel for dinner and then we opened a couple of our
favorite beers because apparently Friday was National Beer Can Appreciation
Day. Lol. Don’t really even know what that is, but I’m
not going to say no to an excuse to celebrate!
After dinner all of us
snuggled up on the couch and we watched Honey I Blew Up the Kid. Honey I Shrunk the Kids was one of my favorite
movies growing up, but I’d never seen the sequel. We all enjoyed it so much! After the kids went to bed B and I got caught
up on A Million Little Things – so glad it’s finally back! – and then we
watched a couple of episodes of Gossip Girl.
Can’t stop won’t stop.
Saturday, January 25
Jacob had baseball tryouts
Saturday at 1, so we headed to the park at 12:30. They changed the birthday cutoff to September
1 a couple of years ago which meant that Jacob was supposed to move up to
Player Pitch this spring, but we wanted him to have one more season of Coach
Pitch under his belt before moving up, and fortunately, they approved to let
him stay in Coach Pitch for one more season since his birthday is so close to
the cutoff. Whew.
His fall ball coach was
there along with many of his old teammates, so we’re keeping our fingers and
toes crossed to be on the same team with as many of them as we can. Tryouts lasted about an hour… the coaches
watched the kids bat and run and scoop up grounders at second and throw to
first, and Jacob did really well. I’m
hoping we’ll hear something this week about the teams!
Saturday afternoon we met
someone who bought my old desk chair on Facebook Marketplace (check it off the
list! Woo hoo!) and then Saturday
evening we went to 5:30 mass as we always do.
This week is Catholic Schools Week and the kids’ school always lets them
wear their uniforms to church to kick off the week in exchange for an
out-of-uniform day. You can bet they
were all over that! All of my fellow
private school graduates, y’all know just how coveted those are!!
After church we went to our
favorite Mexican place with my mom’s whole family. We’ve been getting together with my
grandmother and aunts and uncles and cousins after church for several weekends
in a row now and I love it! We were all
poking fun at my Uncle Greg for sporting his Click It Glasses, so I tried them
on and, of course, had to snap a picture.
Haha.
Sunday, January 26
Sunday, B and the kids and I all went out to lunch at Panera and then we took the kids to Target to pick out Valentines for their friends and teachers. I wanted them to be able to choose while they were still fully stocked, so we went ahead and checked that off the list early! Jacob opted for Mad Libs cards with pencils (soooo cute!) and Olivia opted for Frozen 2 cards with tattoos. Shocker. Haha.
Speaking of which, Olivia’s
teacher just informed us earlier this week that after testing last week, her
reading level moved up to 2.1-3.1 and she’s now reading on a second – third
grade reading level… in kindergarten!
She takes after her momma and she always has her little nose in a book
(when she’s not playing school or coloring, that is) and I just love my little
book worm!
Jacob picked out seven new
books and Olivia chose three, and then we headed to the 24-hour library to grab
a book for yours truly. I’ve been
waiting to read City of Girls
On a completely different note, check out this SUV that was in the library parking lot. I've officially seen it all.
Jacob was thrilled about one
of his books – I Survived the San Francisco Earthquake – and he adores the
entire I Survived series, so he started reading his in the car on the way
home. By the time we got home, he was
about a third of the way into the book and then he spent the next 45 minutes finishing
it. His AR level is currently fourth –
fifth grade level, so he’s about to outgrow the series (with regard to AR
testing), and he wanted to get them all in before his level increases too much.
B got home from his tennis
match later in the afternoon and he and the kids played video games while I
worked in my office for a bit. I am
notorious for having all kinds of technology issues, and my latest issue that
I’ve been having for about 2-3 years, is that my laptop that has 400 GB of
storage on it, has been saying that it’s full.
I looked high and low through all of my files knowing that there was no
way I had 400 GB worth of data on my computer because I store all of my pictures
and videos on external hard drives. B
has also looked through my computer several times over the last couple of years
and has never been able to find what was causing the problem.
Well, he downloaded some
free program this weekend that will show you where are all of your storage is
being allocated, and he was able to see that almost 300 GB were tied up in some
weird temporary file. Turns out, there
was some kind of issue a couple of years ago that caused my computer to run
loads and loads of backups, and all of them were stored on some hidden file. They’ve been there eating up almost 300 GB of
my storage ever since. The reason why I
wasn’t able to locate them myself when I went through my computer file by file was
because they were all hidden since they were behind-the-scenes files. Argh.
B was able to delete all of
them and now my computer is running amazingly and I now have space to store all
the things and I’m not constantly struggling to take the pictures/videos off of
my phone. Prior to this, I only had 3 GB
of storage available so everything I tried to do was a struggle. For like, 2-3 years! Anyhoo, I’m rambling, but I just wanted to
bring this to everyone’s attention in case you’re having a similar issue.
Sunday evening we did dinner
at my parents’ house and my momma made a new pork chop recipe that was so, so
delicious. I need to get the recipe so I
can try it myself and post about it!
Happy Tuesday, y’all!
