It Was A Good Week

I will be the first to admit that sometimes our weeks can be a little boring for Katie. She doesn’t mind, and tells me everyday that she’d rather be home, but what kid wouldn’t rather play than entertain themselves while Mom works? Which is usually how our afternoons go after we get done with school. But this week was different. We did something fun every day, even if it wasn’t for long, and I’m really going to try to be better about it.

I am keeping Britney and Bella every Sunday night until December 5th while Heather and her Mom are in Houston for her chemo treatment. I get her girls off to school and pick them up because she doesn’t get back until after dark on Mondays.

The girls definitely don’t mind the school night sleepovers. 😊

After we finished our work Monday morning, we met Cara and Josie at the big Bossier park for recess. 


On Tuesday, she did really well on her math multiplication speed drill. When Jimmy heard he sent Chick-fil-A points for us to go get nuggets and a milkshake as a prize.

On Wednesday, we skipped school except for reading and went to see the new Clifford movie. And then stopped by dollar tree and found a cool solar system craft that happened to be the chapter we are doing in science this week.

By Thursday, she finally convinced me it was time to put up our Christmas tree. She’s been asking for about two weeks and I told her I would do it but she had to help me get ALL of the Christmas boxes out of the attic. She had no idea what she was in for! But I worked yesterday and today, and the house is now done and beautiful, and I can enjoy it for the next 6 weeks. 




And today we went and got pedicures with Kelli before Matt picked her and Lillian up to go to the deer camp. She will come back tomorrow so that Lillian can hunt with Matt Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning, but she gets to go tomorrow. It’s definitely been a good week and I am enjoying my quiet night to rest up from it. 🤣



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