Daddy's Girls

Thursday was the first official day of fall and it’s looking like it in our house.  The temperatures should follow tomorrow with highs in the 80s and lows in the 50s all week. It’s become our start of fall tradition to have our LGA book fair so Friday was our fall fun day.  I made a breakfast sausage balls and apple cider, we read some new books, painted a wooden pumpkin (Lilli was out sick and got to do hers too), we did Mad Libs for ELA, and then decorated “Book brownies” while we watched a movie.  We are having an outdoor movie night party for Hocus Pocus 2 next weekend so these are in the freezer and ready for their friends.  That night was the Lee Brice concert. Katie is obsessed with country music and always has it playing. She’s been asking to go to a concert, so I jumped on these tickets when I saw them. We had a good time, but she couldn’t understand why it had to go so late, lol. It started at seven and she was about to fall asleep at 10 so we left about 45...

I said last time that I tried to not let two weeks pass without a post, and here I go doing it again. This time it’s not because we haven’t had anything going on, it’s because we have been busier in the last few weeks than we have probably ever. Lilli had her first softball game on the 6th and we have joined the rest of the ball parents in the world with our crazy schedule. She has games Tuesday/Thursday- practice Monday/Friday- and a private lesson on Wednesdays. Five days a week- it’s exhausting but she loves it! She says it ranks right up there with hunting and she still has the goal of the school team next year. Her private instructor said if she’ll commit to it, she can get her on that team next spring. We will see! But it’s amazing how much she’s progressed in just 4 games. She had her first game hit this past Thursday. She may have been out at first, but it was an RBI!  Pops drove up that day to watch Katie’s gymnastics class and go to a game and it was a good one for him to...

I haven’t posted in over 2 weeks and I usually try not to go that long. It’s because we really haven’t had anything going on other than sickness in this house. Lillian missed school the Monday and Tuesday after our anniversary with some unknown virus. Fever, sore throat, stuffiness- but Covid and strep were negative. On that Thursday, Katie told me she had a sore throat and her ear was hurting really bad. I figured it was the same virus that Lillian had, but it sounded like she also had an ear infection, so I decided to take her to the doctor for an antibiotic. Little did we know she also had Covid! She wasn’t even that sick when I took her in, but by that Friday, Saturday, and Sunday she ran a fever of over 102. (We even retested Lil because we thought it was just too early when she went, but still negative) It was incredibly disappointing because my uncle Roy passed away the week before and the funeral was that Saturday. We were not able to go and support the family, but I was very g...

Yesterday was 17 years and we had a nice day to celebrate. We both had a massage, came home and took a nap and then went out to a good dinner. Our original plan was for the girls to be with Yaya and Capn, but Lillian woke up with a sore throat and low grade temp and we didn’t want to potentially expose them to anything. I’m not gonna lie, I may have cried a little. It’s been four or five months since we had a night alone and, with hunting season starting, it will be 6 more before we have another chance. But it was a good day anyway. And Lilli’s text was pretty funny  Plus, it was a milestone night because we left them alone. I’ve run errands and things during the day plenty of times, but this was the first time we’d left in the evening just for fun. It will open up a whole new world! So even though it wasn’t the night we originally planned, we had a good time. And there’s no one else I’d want to spend 17 years (and many more) with. 

After a very lazy summer of (admittedly) too much screen time and not too many plans other than pool time or friends, we jumped in to the busy school year quickly. It’s been an adjustment to say the least. I’ve officially finished my first week of work and I worked 37 hour, plus homeschooled Katie, kept up the house and ran the kids around every evening. Mama is tired!  The hours should  be closer to 25 to 30 on an average week (that was a lot of playing catch-up from what the previous transaction coordinator did not get done) but now that Lillian is in softball, we don’t get home before 8:45 any night. And with school and general house stuff, it’s a schedule I have not have to have in years. But we will adjust. Kathleen’s school is going well so far, I do the “teaching” part on MWF, and TTh is study, journal, read, etc. Things she can do more or less on her own at the office. Lillian seems to like school too. She doesn’t love all of her teachers but she’s had her first quizze...

Even though next Saturday will make 12 years since my Mom has been gone, sometimes it still feels like yesterday. Today is my Mom and Dad’s anniversary and when I asked my Dad how many years it would have been, he replied with a tearful “50.” Wow, that was a gut punch and you never know when they will come! The tears don’t come very often anymore but that one got me. We should be in Baton Rouge for a huge party today. I remember Nana and Papa’s 50th so well and it was a fun weekend surrounded by the whole family. But instead, we are looking at pics from their wedding album on our phones  Dad went and flipped through it at the cemetery today and sent us pics. They were 21 years old! ❤️ Top- on their honeymoon  Bottom- about a year before she died  I still think it isn’t fair she doesn’t know our kids, but we have some great memories. She was my rock that I called everyday. I would have loved to have been able to call her after I started my new job today to tell her all abo...

I think it may have been the first time it’s happened but ALL of the cousins in 4 districts and 6 different schools had their 1st day today. Lillian officially became a middle schooler and her day went well. She didn’t love her math teacher but the others are ok. She has some friends in each class (her BEST friends aren’t though so that will be some change for her)  What a change from 6th grade!! Katie and I started her 3rd year of homeschooling. We started with Home Ec and 4-H (cleaning the house and cleaning the chicken brooder😉) and got started on some subjects before she came to work with me  Piper started 6th grade Anna is a sophomore! (How is that possible?!) Case and Lane are 1st and 3rd graders And Austin and Josey are 2nd and 5th (And I just realized between all the families, we have from 1st-7th- with Anna as the outlier 😉)  I haven’t heard too much from nieces and nephews, but I hope everyone had a great 1st day. I know it will be a great year! ❤️