Back to Life...

The kids went back to school on Tuesday so that means back to normal life. Of course “normal” for us means curve balls get thrown all the time. So the first day back to school (which was also going to be my first day in the office in over two weeks) was spent home with sick Katie who threw up all morning. 

After a dose of zofran, nothing could stop her from going outside to do a video for Yaya‘s birthday though. 

Thursday was report card day and they both did great! Katie doesn’t really get grades yet but she had mastered all of her skills for the nine weeks. And Lillian made the honor roll!

Friday started Girl Scout cookie sales. I thought life would slow down after the holidays but this is going to be an incredibly busy time of year. We will be selling for the next few weeks and doing booths the last weekend of February and first two weekends of March as much as we can. 

On top of that, Between both sides of the family six of the cousins (including Lillian) have birthdays. Jennifer and Family plus Michaelyn, Rick, Holman, Brandi and Chance are all coming up next weekend to have time at the camp and a birthday party. Lillian’s DI team has two tournaments in the next few weeks. And the race for the cure (which is normally in March) has changed dates and been added to all of our February stuff. I’m tired already! 😉

But Matt is enjoying these last few weeks of hunting. Hard to believe there’s only two more weekends. It seems to go faster and faster each year. 




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