Daddy's Girls

There’s only 5 more school days before we have a full week off for fall break, and I’m ready! Last week was busy with school and lots of football, and it’s tiring to have something 5 evenings a week. School may be tiring, but it’s such a blessing to be there with Kathleen. She comes to eat lunch with me in my room occasionally, and every other week we have “team time” (during school hours clubs) and she comes to do yoga with me Dad came last Monday to watch Lillian at her riding lesson, and stayed through Wednesday so that he could watch Kathleen cheer Tuesday night too. She’s loving it and he really enjoyed the football 🏈 part too  And Friday was another Benton High game, but I had to skip that one because I was showing a house and then writing an offer. Lillian had a great time though! And Saturday was a quick trip to Baron Rouge for the LSU football game. We’ve had it planned for over a month, and had 21 friends and family at the tailgate and 17 of us went into the game. Jennif...

We’ve been busy around here lately. Teal season started last weekend and the girls have spent both with Matt at the camp. I’ve had quite a bit of work to do to catch up on things for school and have stayed home. The second picture is Kathleen being mad at me for being at school early, yet again. I was naïve to think I’d be able to get most of my stuff done during planning, and with the girls having stuff five nights a week, the extra work has been falling on early mornings and weekends. I’m exhausted! But at least I love the kids. Lillian’s still loving horseback riding, even though this horse that she loves bucked her off the other day. Thankfully, she didn’t even bruise, but it was enough to scare me for a second. Not nearly as much as practicing driving is going to though!  Kathleen did get a fun day at school Friday when she had an obstacle course for the money she raised for her fundraiser and Yaya checked her out to go to lunch  And Lillian has been busy with homecoming ...

We’ve had some country girls around here lately. Lillian is really getting into her horseback riding and is trying to work out a deal with her instructor to be able to ride more in exchange for work. She’s got this one horse that she really likes and he doesn’t get ridden very often because he can’t be a regular lesson horse after he bucked someone off last year. Prior to that, he was one of Vivette’s best horses so it’s kind of a win-win for her because she wants someone to ride him regularly. That didn’t scare our country girl and her mama was willing to sign the waiver, so she and Little Rock are getting to be friends. She would LOVE to rodeo but I think we are still far from than, and convincing her Dad is a whole other hurdle 😉 so she’s happy with her twice a week for now in hopes it will be more soon. We did get to go watch some of her friends in the Benton rodeo last Friday  We left there late and got to the camp around midnight for a weekend of hunting with the family...

It’s officially been 4 weeks since school started and we are making it. The schedule is tiring but I really love it and it’s getting better every day. The kids are so fun and for the most part my classes are good. Some kids are more challenging than others, but no one is outright bad, and I feel like I have lots of support from administration.  Kathleen is making new friends (none of the girls from her class last year are in her homeroom now that she’s in AP classes) and Lillian’s adjusting to high school too. It’ll be interesting to see how the friend group shakes out this year, but the originals are all planning to go to homecoming as a big group with a few new people too. Kathleen has straight As and Lillian has 3 As and a B with progress reports coming out next week  There have been girls nights Pep squad practice and a spirit night  And I’m still working real estate too. I only have one listing and one buyer right now, but it’s enough to take up some of my home time....