Weekly Wrap Up - Hello February

Saturday we met some old friends of mine for lunch.   The gal and I started working together in 1994, and her youngest daughter was the first new born baby I'd ever held in my life.  That daughter now has a 1-year old and we all got together to catch up (we do this twice a year).  

On Sunday we made homemade pizza's for a late lunch/early dinner and then took the girls to see Little Women while the rest of the country watched the Super Bowl.  This was (in our opinion) the best production we've ever seen of this timeless classic.

Monday started out ok.  I got the house cleaned early and worked on graduation announcements. I found out mid-day that my brother's little dog, Porkie, had crossed the rainbow bridge, so I went to hang out with him for a while.  School work was completed early.

Tuesday morning we had chiropractor appointments.  Both of Lindsey's shoulders had popped out of socket again, so we had to get those put back in.  The chiro gave her some exercises to do to help strengthen the muscles/ligaments.  He said that she's growing so quickly right now that this could be an issue for a bit until everything slows down, sigh. She also had an orthodontist appointment at noon.  Things are looking good with the braces and in about 8 weeks they'll be doing xrays to see where we are in the process.  School work was completed around all the appointments and jiu-jitsu wrapped up our evening.

Wednesday was Lindsey's weekly babysitting gig from 9am-1pm.  She took some of her work with her to work on during nap time, and finished the rest when she got home.  Olivia got most of her work done before lunch time.  She's still working on her online driver's education course as well.

Thursday we had heavy rains move into the area.  Thankfully we did not get the serious flooding that hit West Virginia and Tennessee, but we still had over 3 inches of rain fall.   The kids worked on their school work and I worked on laundry and housework.   In the evening, the kids headed to jiu-jitsu and I headed out to a painting class with my pal Yvette.  We did gnomes on canvas.  I think mine has a little "Duck Dynasty" thing going on.  I can now check this off my bucket list for the year.

Friday, Olivia was scheduled to work at the farm, but torrential rains and high winds nipped that in the bud.  I let both kids sleep in a bit while I ran out to get groceries and pay a few bills.  They still had all their work finished before I got home.  Olivia and Tom headed out to volleyball in the evening and Lindsey and I had movie night.

Blast From the Past

If you've been reading my blog long, you know that Olivia is passionate about animals.  In going through my old blog posts I found a really cool unit study (Girls and Horses) that I thought I'd share this week.  That's Olivia in the photo below, at about 8 years old.

Have a great weekend!