Scott and I can handle busy...we know what that means. The week that we just exited was more than busy, it was almost unmanageable. I'd say that we both barely hung on by a thread. And certainly suffered major sleep deprivation for every night this last week.
Ava started her summer band lessons this past week, so every night, she was dropped off/picked up, plus she still has her baton classes on Monday night, so that was a doozy of an evening. I will say that she's made remarkable progress from her first trumpet lesson on Monday night, to the actual tunes I was hearing her play over this weekend. It was so, so hard not to take the trumpet from her and show her how to do it...but, I resisted. It's important for her to learn how to play, as well as read music (glad they had their intense recorder course in 4th grade...at least she has a starting point for reading music!)
Ava has her end-of-summer baton show this Friday night, and then we get a 6 week break from baton. Woohoo! And, we're coming up on the last two weeks of her summer lessons (language arts and math) so our Saturday mornings will be homework-free for a while. What are we going to do with all of this extra time? Ha ha ha...
G's been a very good boy lately...no issues at daycare, no poopy underwear for many weeks now, and usually being a nice little boy, with minor bouts of naughtiness. He's having more fun riding around on his bike...he mostly has the pedaling action mastered, but gets hung up every once in a while.
I started out the week on a high note...I finished the Harry Potter series! I stayed up super late on Sunday night, and went to bed with 100 pages to go in the last book. So over lunch on Monday, I headed out to a local park, and wrapped it up. So good! And now Ava and I can finish watching all of the movies.
Wednesday night was...pretty crappy. Ava and I were heading home from her trumpet lessons when Scott called and advised that there were several emergency vehicles at our neighbor's house. Turns out that their little girl suffered from an allergic reaction, and they needed to take her to the hospital. She's totally ok now, thank goodness! We ended up watching their oldest child (G's best buddy) until about 11:30pm on Wednesday night.
I was trying to work for several hours that night, and right as things were winding down at home, Scott got a phone call that his uncle had collapsed on the ball fields. Scott left for the hospital around 9:45pm, and didn't return home until late that evening. Unfortunately, his uncle didn't make it, and Scott is leading the efforts to take care of cleaning out the apartment, and making arrangements for the next steps. RIP Uncle Tom. You will be missed by many!
All of these activities have left us exhausted. We're both working a ton right now, and there simply isn't time to get to everything that we need to do. Fortunately, Scott's mom flew into town to help with taking care of Uncle Tom's things, and she stayed with us last night and watched the kids. Scott and I were able to go out on a date night, and we had a wonderful time. We enjoyed a great dinner at Porter Creek, and then headed back into Rosemount and hit up Celts, where they were playing VINGO (video bingo - SO much fun!) We ran into Scott's aunt and her husband there, so it was really nice to be able to catch up with them, as well.
Lastly...Happy Birthday to our Lucky dog! She's 14 years old today!! She might have had some birthday bacon to celebrate. Woof!
It looks like a nice day right now...Scott's already working on a truck, and I need to get working on work stuff...I'm hoping that things calm down a bit soon, so we can start enjoying things a bit more!
It started off well, though...last Sunday, we took the kids to a park and they had a blast!
Captured just as Scott was starting to fly out of the swing!
Ava has her end-of-summer baton show this Friday night, and then we get a 6 week break from baton. Woohoo! And, we're coming up on the last two weeks of her summer lessons (language arts and math) so our Saturday mornings will be homework-free for a while. What are we going to do with all of this extra time? Ha ha ha...
G's been a very good boy lately...no issues at daycare, no poopy underwear for many weeks now, and usually being a nice little boy, with minor bouts of naughtiness. He's having more fun riding around on his bike...he mostly has the pedaling action mastered, but gets hung up every once in a while.
I started out the week on a high note...I finished the Harry Potter series! I stayed up super late on Sunday night, and went to bed with 100 pages to go in the last book. So over lunch on Monday, I headed out to a local park, and wrapped it up. So good! And now Ava and I can finish watching all of the movies.
Wednesday night was...pretty crappy. Ava and I were heading home from her trumpet lessons when Scott called and advised that there were several emergency vehicles at our neighbor's house. Turns out that their little girl suffered from an allergic reaction, and they needed to take her to the hospital. She's totally ok now, thank goodness! We ended up watching their oldest child (G's best buddy) until about 11:30pm on Wednesday night.
I was trying to work for several hours that night, and right as things were winding down at home, Scott got a phone call that his uncle had collapsed on the ball fields. Scott left for the hospital around 9:45pm, and didn't return home until late that evening. Unfortunately, his uncle didn't make it, and Scott is leading the efforts to take care of cleaning out the apartment, and making arrangements for the next steps. RIP Uncle Tom. You will be missed by many!
All of these activities have left us exhausted. We're both working a ton right now, and there simply isn't time to get to everything that we need to do. Fortunately, Scott's mom flew into town to help with taking care of Uncle Tom's things, and she stayed with us last night and watched the kids. Scott and I were able to go out on a date night, and we had a wonderful time. We enjoyed a great dinner at Porter Creek, and then headed back into Rosemount and hit up Celts, where they were playing VINGO (video bingo - SO much fun!) We ran into Scott's aunt and her husband there, so it was really nice to be able to catch up with them, as well.
Lastly...Happy Birthday to our Lucky dog! She's 14 years old today!! She might have had some birthday bacon to celebrate. Woof!
It looks like a nice day right now...Scott's already working on a truck, and I need to get working on work stuff...I'm hoping that things calm down a bit soon, so we can start enjoying things a bit more!
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