Memorial Day Parade

In the days leading up to the Memorial Day holiday, I was anticipating the big girls having a 5 day weekend, the little ones having a 4 day weekend and Billy having a 3 day weekend!  

However, on Wednesday, Emily was like "Mutti, I think we have school tomorrow.  None of the teachers said anything about it being a holiday."  So, I break out the school calendar and it has 'graduation' marked the same color as a holiday, so that's how I added it to my phone last August.  = /  So, the big girls had one extra day until their break, but we made it.

Monday morning, Alice got up early and made patriotic blueberry muffins for breakfast!

We dug out our red, white and blue to walk down to the parade!

Grace was a big fan of her red, white and blue outfit!

It was a nice day for a parade, and we found one of the twins' friends, who is also our neighbor, so they were walking home together!  It's awesome, because everyone on our street walks down (since there is nowhere to park) so we get to see all of our neighbors!

When we came home, Billy cooked up a weeks' worth of meat, first time this year, and grilled food is just so good!!

It was hard to go back to school after such a wonderful weekend, because it felt 100% like summer!  We survived though, since the following weeks were filled with fun, and now it's summer for real!

later days

edit: written 6-16-23 backdated for continuity.           

Daily Entry

How awesome would it be if I documented every day instead of once every couple of weeks, or once a month?  Well, today I'm updating the blog again, even though I just posted some entries yesterday. It's a little entry, but I think lots of little entries are more desirable than one big post.

So, today, we made Texas shaped blueberry muffins.  They came out better than I expected (I pictured them sticking in the mold and coming out in pieces) but were too much work for the return. = )

Over the weekend, Grace got sick.  She woke up retching, and soiled all of the sheets & blankets she was using.  I had to wash them in shifts, on sanitize, and the comforter pictured was thrown in with a secondary blanket we pulled from the closet.  This secondary blanket is green, and despite being purchased used, managed to tint everything in the wash green. = 0

So, laundry fail on my part, and now I want Andes mints each time I see it. lol.

Emily's VIP day is coming up the first week of March, so we took the time to make her poster.  She picked out close to 50 pictures.  We compromised, and she selected 9 large ones, and the rest I printed 4 per page.

I tried to find Alice's from last year, and couldn't find it in the blog or on facebook.  It's not a great picture of her, so maybe I skipped out on posting it.  But I had to sow the personality difference of my two older girls.  

I'm pretty sure I spent more time printing Alice's pictures than she spent assembling her project. Emily spent at least an hour choosing, prioritizing, counting and displaying. = )

It was a nice day, even though I spent time I had allotted for one of my 'to-do' list items filling out surprise paperwork and paying unexpected bills. = (

later days