Daddy's Girls

I'm 3 days late on this post because I was going to wait for birthday pictures to make it and then forgot. 🤦‍♀️ we had Kathleen's birthday party on Friday night. She had 6 friends come over to eat Cane's and cake before an escape room and 4 of them also spent the night. They had a great time and I guess pool season has officially started for them.  Saturday was her actual birthday and we started the day with mani/pedis And some pool time. We went to dinner that night with the 4 of us plus Jackson and his sister Brooklyn. She and Kathleen have become fast friends and she spent both nights of the weekend with us. They swam more on Sunday and we went to Natchiotches that evening for 2 baseball games. It was a great weekend and I love celebrating my girls each year!

It's only been about 2 1/2 weeks since my last post, but it honestly feels like forever ago. We have been so busy and I'm not exaggerating when I say we are almost never home before 8:00. Our schedule right now is non stop but only 17 more school days until summer!  I can't say our schedule is all because of "have to's" either. We have plenty between work, school and the kid stuff, but a lot of it is fun. We went to see Taylor's band again one night We love supporting her and it's always so fun.  Kathleen had what may be her last gymnastics meet. She has lost her love of the sport for everything but floor so we finished the season with the state meet in New Orleans.  It was fun to watch her and we got a visit with the family in Baton Rouge the night before. She had an evaluation at a cheer gym in Benton and, based on her skills, they have her trying out for an elite (highest level) team in a couple of weeks. Even if she doesn't make that, she'l...

Only 28 more days of school and I will be DONE. I have decided not to go back to teaching, at least not next year and not middle school, so in 6 weeks I will be enjoying my first day of summer vacation. I'll decide from there what the future holds, but I can say long term teachers are saints. This job is not for the weak, and you can talk about breaks all you want, but I can promise you if teachers didn't get them, you would have NO ONE willing to do this job.  I think my last post was the very start of spring break. We had a good time and didn't do too much. Lillian did her driving for driver's ed and has been practicing a lot. She rode her horse/worked and both girls hung out with friends some    Lillian asked Yaya if she could borrow a camera a while back, and then when she met Jackson she realized he had that hobby too. They have been taking turns practicing at riding lessons and baseball games.  We went down to Baton Rouge to celebrate my birthday with Nana. She...