I think this week was good? I mean, there was a lot that happened in the government, but it was a little less chaotic in our house in comparison. In this case, I think that's a good thing. A really good thing.
Ava went back to meeting up, in person, for her baton class. It had been a few months since she had been able to practice with her instructors and teammates...they try hard over Zoom but it's just not the same thing. It's good for her to get out and see people once a week! Parents can't go in with the kids, so I've claimed my spot in the parking lot, underneath the streetlight, so I can get an hour's worth of reading in while I wait. I'm working on reading a book for work, as well as two other books for fun and I need to make more progress on them. It's nice to have an hour on Tuesdays where I know I can focus on the words and not have any distractions.
G had his very last (for now) day of Zooms with his teacher on Friday. They are off of school Mon-Wed next week, and then it's back to in person learning for him. I'm still not 100% comfortable with it, but if he doesn't go now, he's automatically in distance learning for the rest of the year. I think the district has done a great job managing everything over the last (wait, let's check the blog title for accuracy) 44 weeks (!!) so I'm a bit surprised that they're jumping back to full time schooling for the elementary kids, without any transition via the hybrid model. G's VERY excited to go back to see his teachers and friends.
G and I try to sit for a few minutes each night before bed and just chat about whatever topic sounds interesting...this night, we talked about squishies (and watched a video of someone dissecting a squishy...ewww.) He was having fun with this hamburger squishy here.
I'm excited to be able to work without G popping into my conference calls all of the time. And I think Ava's excited that she won't have the little "rat" (her words, not mine) making noise while she's on her Zooms. But, G and I will dearly miss the morning snuggles that we've been doing for the last few months. Even Ava joined in a few times this week!
In positive news, on Thursday I was recognized at our All IT (several hundred associates) quarterly meeting as someone who is living the Patterson Core Values! I was completely caught off-guard, but was really honored to have received this recognition. I've been at Patterson for just over two years now, and I finally feel like I have a clue as to what I'm doing. There are still a lot of people I don't know (but that's to be expected, especially since 10 of the 25 months that I've been there, we've all been WFH.) I've said it before, but I'll say it again...this career move was the best thing I could have done for myself.
In all of his spare time (haha) Scott is continuing to work on the bar in the basement. We got the glass for our cabinet fronts so his plan is to get that all wrapped up this weekend. I've moved forward to thinking of the cute dishes and snacks we can keep down there. Eventually, we'll be able to host family and friends in our new space. We ordered new furniture last weekend (gave up on the stuff we had ordered back in May...) so fingers crossed we have it in the next few months.
Praying for a safe and uneventful upcoming week...one day we'd like to go to DC for a family trip, but I'm pretty sure that now is the not the time for it!
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