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Go ahead and guess what Shecklet #2 is going as this Halloween 🎃 And yes, Jake sewed his costume.
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Father’s Day 2020
I put together a collage of pictures with Jake holding the Shecklets as newborns.
Bittersweet day. It’s hard to not feel Astrid’s absence.
Last day of school!
The Shecklets finished up 6th, 5th, 2nd and kindergarten today! On to summer break!
Shecklet #4 also had a kindergarten graduation ceremony this morning. Once each student received their graduation certificate, the kids performed three songs for the audience.
This the last kindergarten graduation for DaVinci’s director, Ms. Lach. She has done amazing things for the school (including navigating through the building and expansion process) during her time at DaVinci. I love the fact that she knew our kids by name.
New park
Jake is in CA for a conference. The Shecklets and I went for a bike ride tonight and stopped to check out a new park.
Once we returned home, we had ice cream cones and Shecklets 1, 3 and 4 drew designs on the driveway.
Mother’s Day 2019
Spending the day with the four Shecklets who call me mom.
They know me well and bought me cake (a cupcake cake, actually) 🧁 as well as the two roses in background on the counter (from the Cherish Life group at church this AM.)
The big 4-0!
Happy birthday to this guy!
His parents came up and went to lunch with us and brought a cake for dessert. The umbrella will come in handy at the kids’ track meets and at the cabin this summer. 🏃♀️ ☂ 🏃
Snow day #8…
…And cancellation #9. Yesterday we had another April snowstorm. Almost the same timing to last year’s April storm. School was cancelled as was training for next month’s Family Formation class. I took advantage of the recorded presentation and was able to get the info remotely this month. With coffee in hand ☕️
The boys did a great job helping their dad move the heavy, wet snow. Keeping with tradition, Jake grilled out for dinner on Wednesday night – this time in jeans and bare feet instead of shorts and flip flops.
Today we woke up to a phone cal cancelling school due to water in the building. That made for the kids’ 9th missed day of school his year. 😳 Here’s hoping the rest of the year goes on without any further incidents!
Kid Quotes – deodorant
Jake overheard the following conversation this morning.
Shecklet #2 to Shecklet #1 while #1 was in the shower and #2 was brushing his teeth: “Remember the green armpit stuff is mine. The blue armpit stuff is yours.”
#2 then came down the stairs while smelling his armpits (in an exaggerated fashion) followed by large smiles and a content sounding “aaaahhh.”
Weekend away
My friend, Michelle, and I don’t get much of an opportunity to catch up (uninterrupted) when we see each other. A few weeks ago, she threw out the idea of a pre-baby girls weekend. (She’s expecting another sweet baby and we both know that life gets more complex when adding a new member to the family.) Anyway, we accomplished the feat of finding a weekend that worked for both of us and decided to keep our plans to a minimum. In fact, the only thing we decided on by the time we pulled our of her driveway late Friday morning was that we would head south in I-35. We figured we could stop once we didn’t see snow anymore. That put us smack dab in Des Moines, IA. Not exactly a common place to road trip to, but for us, it wasn’t about the destination. Rather, we were hoping to get a chance to talk, laugh, and sleep. All of which we accomplished. Well, maybe not so much on the sleep end, but it was still nice to sleep through the night and not be woken up by a child.
On Saturday, we did get out to see the botanical gardens in downtown Des Moines, had dinner at a taco restaurant (food was tasty, but the service was terrible,) and saw the 9:30pm showing of I Can Only Imagine, before continuing to talk until almost 2am. We got up Sunday morning, had breakfast at the hotel, and found a church nearby that had mass at 11am. After mass and a stop for a cup of coffee, we headed for home.
Both of us are grateful for our husbands who managed things on the home front so we could get away and recharge. (Here are the Shecklets with the homemade pizzas they had for dinner on Friday night.)
