Friday, April 20, 2012
happy friday.
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
every game begins with *love*
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
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Monday, April 16, 2012
six
1. Seems I'm teetering on the fence dividing the land of blogging and non-blogging. I don't seem to have any words anymore. And yet, I don't want to be done with my little record yet. I thought about switching to just my picture-a-day book, which at least keeps track of small bits of our life. The main problem with that is...I haven't been doing my picture-a-day this year. It has been more like a picture-a-week. Maybe if I can get back on track with that, I will be done blogging. But that's iffy at the moment.
2. Here's a few from my effort to get back on track this week.
4. As a side note...I am grateful for my job. It is necessary to us. Period. And incredibly stressful most days. I treasure every day that I don't have to go to work, but can be in my home living my life with my family. It seems like I have experienced some really great teaching moments with my children lately. I love when I don't miss those chances.
5. Or the chance to give them a really hard time. My older kids had to watch another growth and development video at school last week. They were not happy with me for signing the release to allow them to watch. Too squirmy. So Chris and I took every opportunity to remind them that it was coming up - you know to get them excited and stuff. (Really, it's to keep a good open dialogue, but whatever.) The first time they had to watch one of these was in elementary school a few years ago and I went to preview it and the jingle in the video was awful! "Just around the corner..." they would sing over and over. Ugh. My kids and I both remembered it forever...you couldn't get it out of your head. So Chris and I had fun with it this time around. We've been slipping the phrase in whenever we could. The kids just moan and let us know what they really think of it. I even marked on the calender the day before the video..."guess what's coming just around the corner." They've basically hated us. It was great.
Until the day of the video came and Austin was in class listening to a story from his teacher. Can you believe the phrase came up in the story....the so and so had to run to the store that was just around the corner??? Oh man. Austin told Chris and I that night that he started laughing his head off and telling his whole class why it was so funny. Oops. I've been waiting for a call from his teacher ever since.
6. Back to my job...I had to work all of spring break (a few weeks ago). So we stayed put. That would have been a better deal if the weather would have thrown in a few sunny days. But it rained every single day. Chris and the punkitos made the most of it. They had a very full week. They watched a bazillion movies and consumed record amounts of popcorn. They spent loads and loads of time with friends. Everyone did lots of reading and exercising. Chris was such a good sport and took them on lots of fun outings. And the one day that I was off, we jammed full of activities together. Whenever the sun did poke it's head out, they were sure to run out and enjoy it. They all loved their relaxing break and were very sad to see it end.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
3.17.12
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
thank goodness for spring
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