Monday I went for a trail run with Max. Then there were more phone calls to be made. Our health insurance company, arranging River’s frenectomy and coordinating things with his orthodontist. Lots of fun. Tuesday River had his frenectomy consult and we scheduled frenectomy for the beginning of March, which means we’ll have to change the date of his braces …
Ocean has such an imagination. Here he was fighting monsters with his sword and trusty staff (complete with chicken bucket) in the rain.
Monday I registered Sunshine for FSY. Since it’s only held every other year, she’ll be 18 next time it’s held and probably won’t attend. She’ll have a busy summer this year. It was too cold for the sap to run much. Tuesday we went to music lessons and karate. We collected a full 5 gal bucket of walnut sap + …
The boys are fully in fort building mode, just as Sunshine was at their age. Their forts usually involve couch cushions and their bed pillows and blankets.
Monday I almost took Max for a run, but the temps are just too cold overnight. I spent some more trying to find the rest of my sap buckets. I found 4 or 5 of them last week, but I have a dozen, and I have no idea where the rest are. They’re not in the garden shed. They’re possibly …
The boys’ hair has been getting long and shaggy, at their request, though I really want to cut it. The other day they asked their sister to put pony tails in their hair 🤦♀️ River looks cute with bangs and pigtails, right? And Ocean’s hair is rather reminiscent of Sunshine’s when she was 2 or 3, with only a little …
Monday I worked on an oil tanned leather messenger bag, based off the pattern I used for Ocean’s bag, but with a liberal amount of changes. I think it’s going to be smaller than what I’m looking for, but it’s a good practice project in any case. It was my first time using magnetic closures, which I added into the …
We were getting into the car after karate and Ocean spotted a sporty little Miata parked next to us. Ocean: “That car is useless! It can only seat 2 people. If you have a family…” It’s too funny to see his thought process.
We had about 3″ of snow by 5pm Sunday and got a bit more before it stopped that evening. That meant that on Monday we had ice covered snow, but the trees got off easy, and we didn’t lose power. I snowshoed out to the mailboxes. That road was clear, but ours was super crunchy. Jeremy took the Subaru out …
Ocean is very creative with his LEGO and he likes to incorporate them with his current interests. In this case: The Incredibles. Can you see the logo?
Monday I prepped nearly 40 canvases with gesso. Tuesday after music lessons I cut vinyl, put each vinyl set on a canvas, then painted two thin coats of white paint on top of the vinyl. I ended up just using some flat ceiling paint we had sitting around. We did some karate practice, then went to class. Wednesday during my …
I came out of the bathroom one night to find Max all snuggled in the blankets. I told her to move out of my spot, and she pretended to be asleep, the little stinker:
Sunday afternoon Jeremy was on the phone for hours, coordinating work schedules. They’re moving back to a 3 day in-office work week to cut down on exposure, but we also had a fast-moving storm pop up with predicted overnight accumulations of 4-7”, which added some scheduling fun. We haven’t gotten 4-7″ of snow in the last few years combined, let …
River’s snake jokes prompted me to come up with my own joke: What kind of spider is an introvert? a brown recluse
You can find my 2021 goals here, my 2021 mileage totals here, my 2020 goals here, my 2020 mileage totals here, my 2019 mileage totals in this post, and my 2019 goals in this post. I set a lot of goals because they help me accomplish things. In the past I’ve set some unrealistic goals, but I’m getting better at pinpointing things that are both important …
Miles I’ve struggled to balance trail runs with karate workouts. I can’t do both on the same day, which is limiting my miles. Injuring my foot didn’t help with my mileage, either. On the other hand, my hip isn’t bothering me anymore, thankfully. Hours outside Striking a balance of time outside and time inside for work and schoolwork is a …
Monday I did some more post catchup. In the afternoon we all went to watch the new Spider Man movie in the theater. Ocean could not sit still. It was partly the chair the kept folding up on him, partly his ADHD brain that wasn’t as engaged as I thought it would be. He can’t sit still during General Conference …
River, after coming up with his snake jokes: “Ok, I’m ready to be a dad because I have my dad jokes ready.”
So, a couple years ago, I bought this domain so I could transition from Blogspot and a .blogspot domain to WordPress and a .com domain. But, life being what it is, that’s as far as I got. With the start of a new year and an ongoing procrastination problem, I decided it was finally time to make the transition. All …
