Thursday 10 May 2018

A Week in Review (April 29-May 5)

A Week in Review (April 29-May 5)

Watched: Jack score a touchdown.  He apparently slightly fumbled the snap and when he went for the hand off, he saw that hole was wide open so he just ran through it.  He ran like the wind and scored a touchdown.  It was a good morale lifter for him because he had missed a couple big tackles in the game and was feeling pretty bummed about it.  His team did a nice job of supporting him after the touchdown too.

Read:  I didn't really focus to much on reading this week.  I made a little bit of progress in The Oracle Year, but not much else.  I know that I am going to have a bunch of books coming off hold so I need to get myself in gear.

Listened: Compliments on the yearbook.  It was delivered by our May PTA meeting so I was able to give a sneak peek to the people who were in attendance and it was well received.  One of the kids there just kept looking through the pictures again and again.  I am glad that it made so many people happy to have a great yearbook.  I am looking forward to doing next year's too.  It's hard to believe that he will be a 5th grader next year and then it will be all done doing yearbooks for me.

Made: A delicious salad that I need to remember to make more often.  It had marinated shrimp, warmed bacon bits on a mixed bed of greens with a vinaigrette.  It wasn't very hard and it turned out really satisfying.

Felt: Bad for buying something off my birthday wishlist that I sent my mom.  I totally forgot that I had put curtains on there when I bought the curtains for myself.  I really liked the pair that I had picked out for her to give me too. I didn't get a chance to hang them up yet, but I can't wait to see how they look.  Now I will have curtains for two different seasons!

Planned: On the guys just making the repair to the sprinkler system that Ryan and his friend noted when they blew them out for us.  However, it turned into a lot larger project.  They ended up installing a WiFi enabled sprinkler system that allows me to adjust the sprinkler my phone. It will also attempt to delay the cycles based on the water.  It is pretty neat.  Because of the water saving properties, our utility company does a 50% rebate on the cost as credit on your water bill.

Loved: Spending time with my mom and Nick.  They were both able to arrive on Thursday, so we could got to spend an extra day together.  My mom brought me down a birthday cake that was super yummy and some great birthday presents.  She brought me a new dimmable lamp for when I am reading and don't want to wake anyone up, new curtains (you've already read that story), and Ticket to Ride.  We played several games of Catan and Ticket to Ride.  We also played some Around the World in basketball.  I really love having all my family close together.

Here are the pics for the week:






Tuesday 1 May 2018

A Week in Review (April 22-28)

A Week in Review (April 22-28)

Watched: Schitt’s Creek.  This also made my list from recommendation's from friends and I find it quite hilarious.  It is pretty short for a TV series at only 13 hours so I think I will wrap it up rather quickly.  I didn't have much on the to-do list this week so I think that I spent a bit more time watching than I normally would have.

Read: I read All the Bright Places this week.  A moving YA book about loss, love, and growth. I am glad that the story was told from two different perspectives. I really wish that I could have a whole other book on young Finch. These two narrators experienced a lot of tragedy in their young lives. I thought when Amanda and Finch ran into each other, it seemed a little to forced. I know what the author was going for, but it fell flat to me and I think that part should have been left out.  Next, I started The Oracle Year.  It's the first book that came from my Book of the Month club that Nick gave me for my birthday.  

Listened: Shattering glass.  Jack was bouncing a basketball up in living room when heard what sounded like a giant crash below us.  Turns out the vibration from all of ball bouncing and playing had loosened the cover on the light fixture in the basement.  Oops! Guess we learned that we need to seal those in for future use!  Jack as good and helped me clean it all up.  I think he was surprised that I wasn't mad.  It wasn't like he was doing something he shouldn't have.

Made: Final submission for the yearbook on Monday.  I had to decide if I should order a lot extra and bump us up the next price range or if I shouldn't have a lot extras for people to buy from.  Knowing the PHE families the way I do, I opted for extra.  Hopefully enough of them sell that we bring the yearbook to at least a zero cost activity for the PTA.  Who knows, it might even make some money?

Felt: Thankful for Nick.  He came home from a long week and worked hard doing things around the house for me.  He helped me changed the ugly vertical blinds to a curtain rod.  He encouraged me to get new curtains for the bedroom because I was tired of living with the plain ones.  He really works hard to provide for our family and I am thankful how he gives himself to us when he is home.  We are very lucky.

Planned:  Nick’s travel schedule for May.  Or we at least guessed at it.  I am thinking about making some sort of crazy long daisy chain that counts down the days until he should be back home for good.  We are going into our 10 month of not being together on a regular basis and it really wearing on all of us.  He is hoping that by the end of end of August, he will be done enough to be here.  Its like 120 days away.  That would be a might big chain!

Loved: The beautiful weather.  We were able to nice football practices and football games.  We got lots of playing outside done.  Most excitingly, Jack decided that he was going to try riding his bike again and he decided that he actually liked it!  For years I have tried and then without prompting he just suddenly decided to try and enjoyed it.  He came so far so quickly.  I guess he was just waiting to be ready!  I even put out all my spring and summer outdoor decorations up.

Here are the pics for the week:

The pile of shattered glass that we sent to Nick to see if he could figure out what was giving us trouble.


My new curtains next to my old ones.  I was a little worried they were going to be too busy to hang them all together, but I ended up liking the end result fine.



Found the little gem on Facebook and so I made Jack recreate it.  He isn't so little, but he still loves my car immensely!