Around Here: Week 16 2023

 {April 16-22nd}

Ecstatic... that spring has sprung! I swear that while we were sick, the weather turned and flowers popped up and I am sooo excited!

Doing... yardwork with Josh, planting our dahlias, new peonies, ranunculus and pansies. We got the dahlia bed in and the fence along it in the backyard to keep Piper and Grady out of it. 

Getting... on a homework routine to get caught up from sickness. Having only one class for a week has been so lovely.  I feel like I got so much rest. My second class joined the first later this week, and I really need to stay on top of the work with two classes. Thankfully, this is my last set of doubles before summer. Woohoo! 

Watching... Love is Blind and Love Island. Wonderful trashy TV.

Reading... again after quite the break! Yay! I am reading Hello Beautiful, Anne's House of Dreams and The Body Keeps The Score. I am so happy to be reading again. I hate when I don't make time for it. 

Attending... Carly's school spring concert and loving how her precious little face lit up when she found me in the audience. Oh man how I love that girl. 

Sending... Josh to cheer at Wyatt's baseball game, followed by Logan's baseball game. Josh said it was so cold! In fact Wyatt just hid with his phone under a blanket in his chair. Haha! 

Dressing... Carly up cute for class picture day, letting her pick her outfit.  She did so good, wearing a little rainbow dress with a jean jacket. Totes adorb. 

Wondering... which baseball player hated mothers so much that he thought white pants should be a part of the uniform. Sigh. The laundry alone is killing me, not to mention the insanity of the schedule!! (Moms, what do you use to get your white baseball pants clean? I've had okay success with Miss Mouth's Messy Eater Stain Treater and Tide Rescue but I think it could be even better.)

Laughing... at the pencil text Josh sent me. He used a pencil until he could no longer fit it in the pencil sharpener. It made me so proud of him! Haha! 

Running... errands with Carly and Wyatt, picking up cleats & pants for Wyatt and tennis shoes for me (Saucony's) at Big 5 and then grabbing some necessary groceries at Winco. 

Loving... that Carly always gets the mail for me.  I used to have Wyatt do it. Then he went away to middle school and I had to do it myself. But now she's started doing it and it makes me so happy.  She loves getting it as well. 

Doing... early morning fibromyalgia stretches every morning and really feeling the difference. 

Shaking... my head at the crazy dogs who are always underfoot or fighting. They're lucky we love 'em!

Adoring... these handsome twins I'm raising. They are so fun and funny, and sometimes I look at them and I swear I can see the men they're becoming. The other day they wore these matching sweatshirts (seen above) and one of their friends at lunch said, "Aww! Did mommy dress you today?" Hahaha! 
I also love how they discovered that Logan's sweatshirt's Nike has a backwards k, but Jack's doesn't, so they are mirrored just like the twins themselves. 

Listening... to Carly read "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" to me, which is a fourth grade reading level! What?!? She blows me away!

Playing... Twenty Questions with Wyatt and Carly and laughing so hard. It's always an adventure to play games with Carly because she's not sure of the rules or spelling of things all the time. This time however she kicked our butts!

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