Everything water-related is either out of stock or listed online at price-gouging prices, so when I saw this $18 slip and slide at Walmart I grabbed it. Of course the kids loved it.
Waterslide fun, Day 1
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This girl loves her cat.
Checking things out in the new ‘hood!
We might have gone to check out our house (sold sign!) and walk the new neighborhood.
This is the park that is three houses down from us!!
We’re getting rid of wood before the move!
Our ghetto garden!
Obviously we normally just plant the things in the raised planters, but since we’re moving mid-summer this seemed like the best plan. It also came in handy when we were expecting frost one night!
It’s almost lilac time!
The big bush that’s on my walking route had this today…
Good news and annoying kids.
Getting good news on our house purchase!
Dealing with ungrateful kids who refused to clean their rooms so I’m tempted to burn everything they own so they have nothing to clean.
Tom is now officially in charge of making pizza.
He tried our first ever deep dish tonight and holy hell it was good. Pepperoni for the kids—and onion, homemade sweet pepperocini, and leftover chicken apple sausage for us!
Here’s the pan we used if you’re interested. We had been looking at recommended deep dish pizza pans and they were like $40! This one worked fine!
Of course we had drama over it, too. Katie—who loves pizza—picked at it and then refused to eat it. She’s a pain in the butt when it comes to food and frankly we weren’t surprised but we’re so exhausted with her over it… So we asked what she didn’t like about it. Silence. Asked again. Silence. Asked again, saying we want to make something she’d like the next time so she needs to tell us what she doesn’t like about it. She doesn’t like deep dish pizza. BZZT. We call bullshit. She likes it just fine—it’s got to bed SOMETHING ELSE. Silence. This went on for a good five minutes. I finally told her to to get ready for bed then (it was almost 7). Of course she didn’t want that. After more discussion and prodding, do you know what it was? The freaking parmesan cheese Tom sprinkled on top after it came out of the oven. We gave her a new piece and she gobbled it up and asked for another. Ugh. Frankly we call BS on that, too, since she has sprinkled it on her pizzas before… We just can’t ever win and it’s exhausting.
Two degrees away from Covid!
This is what I did all day!
I decided this past Sunday afternoon to run a huge new party for my business.
It’s a specific party that someone came up with and has tested the format many times over—to help get new business—so I’ve had to bust my butt to get new people in to my group and then try to get them active and keep them.
Honestly I was in a bad spot mentally since this is the first month in maybe EVER that I literally have zero sales as of the 15th. Zero. Not one. Nothing. Even after my $6000 sale month last year I made sales the next month. And my seneversary month was good…. so who knows what’s going on. And I hoped this party would pull it out for me. So I was following every. single. step. And today’s work was creating a collage of suggested products for each person that joined or posted a selfie. Here are some of the ones I did!
Covid fireworks!
This is what happens when you combine your stock with your neighbors. You get a mini firework show!
It won’t be nice again for a week.
So it’s time to go work by the fire. And the kids are out riding bikes so it’s quiet…..
My first eggplant dish!
We have a veggie subscription box so one of the last things I had to use was an eggplant. Any other time I would just have so much fun trying to figure out how to use it but I am under a little bit of stress these days (work stuff, new house stuff) and I have zero brain power. So I went simple with eggplant fries. Battered and air fried… they turned out pretty good. Own liked them, Katie didn’t (not surprised).
This was in our bed tonight. I’m crying.
She won’t even get to see her at school next year because Sophia is in dual language which is moved to Intermediate for space reasons.
This is well-deserved tonight!
After a full day of working on my big scary plan !!!EEEEEEEEK!!! this is well-deserved. (Yes I worked on mother’s day. My gift was the kids leaving me alone in peace and quiet.)
Mother’s Day Cuddles
I don’t get family cuddles often but this morning was one of them!
I might be a little ahead of planning for our housewarming.
(They were free on Vine. Discretionary spending has all but stopped.)
We will be homeowners again!
It’s really happening, y’all. We will be homeowners again on July 8 barring any unforeseen circumstances! That’s two months from now!
From seeing the house listed Tuesday to getting pre-approved Wednesday morning to walking through the house Wednesday to making and signing an offer and getting the offer accepted was less than 48 hours!! We were only the second people to view the house!
This wasn’t something we were going to do until spring but we’ve been looking at houses for a few months and we know what’s out there and what we want…and this house had 95% of our wish list!!
And look at my side of the master bath!
As soon as this Covid debacle allows, we will be having a MEGA housewarming/retirement party. Oh, yeah – Tom turned in his retirement papers last week so that’s official now, too (his official date is July 1, 2021).
We are still stunned. And excited. And exhausted.
My anxiety is lessened today!
You guys I am soooo happy this morning! No texts from Tom about Maggie so I knew she was at least the same if not better. He said she was on the couch this morning when he got up and then she went out mostly on her own power for her potty break (even making it up the steps). She’s still a little wobbly but she’s active and alert and walking around…plus she ate a bunch of biscuits and cheese! I did cuddle with her for a bit but it didn’t last for too long as she wanted to go outside again and walked over to the door on her own!)…and now she’s outside wandering around with Katie babysitting her.
I know her time is probably still coming sooner rather than later (and I don’t think we’re totally out of the woods yet now) but it looks like we hopefully have a reprieve for the time being.
I’m going to try and get back to business today but it’s honestly going to be Business Lite just so I can still spend more cuddle time with Maggie…because doesn’t this time call for as much pet cuddles as we can get?!
I’m a hot mess of anxiety today.
So I’m a hot mess of anxiety today and have pretty much checked out and am just doing what I need to do to mentally survive the next few days.
I woke up to a text from Tom saying Maggie (age 14) doesn’t feel well and is moving slow and acting odd and needs to go to the vet. They can’t get her in until Saturday but we’re on a waitlist. Of course every time she’s out of sorts I assume the worst and that this. is. it. She’s had a few of these days before and has always rebounded but this feels different. I vascillate between thinking of taking her to the emergency vet and just waiting another hour… And then she seems fine. And then she doesn’t.
I had to carry her down the steps to go potty and then she wandered around the yard a little shakily for a bit…then just stood at my feet and stared…so I just picked her up and sat in the grass in the sun and held her in my lap for a loooong time in case we are near the end.
That was my breaking point and just sat and cried. 😭 It doesn’t help that I haven’t had a good hard cry since this all started and I really need one because I’m just so sad about so many things. Kids not in school and eLearning sucks. Kids not being able to play with their friends. Behaviors issues with kids. Feeling like I’m failing as a parent. Baseball session cancelled. Swim lessons cancelled. Community pool likely being cancelled. Life just being on hold but Tom’s retirement still looming… Nothing Earth shattering, but all still…there.
I talk a good game about this Covid thing not being that hard because I’m an introvert and being at home is actually pretty easy…but there truth is lots of things are getting to me. And this was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I’ll be fine. She’s been on my lap on the couch sleeping nicely for two hours. But for the immediate future, I’ll be taking it easy and spending time with Maggie.
Katie’s castle project!
She pulled out this Lego project she had started a long time ago but had gotten taken away (most likely due to sass or whining of some sort) and she put it together like a champ. The only bad thing is now we have leftover Lego pieces all over and she loves to actually play with it so it’s still out all over the place.
Happy Cinco de Mayo—it’s 5 o’clock somewhere!
Katie’s teacher gift drop off!
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week and…end of year I guess?! Mrs. Hansen got some beauty goodies from me and, well, since it’s Cinco de Mayo she also got margaritas (plus Katie’s memory book to write in). She only lives about a mile from us—and probably less as the crow flies.
Lest you think I forgot Owen’s teacher…I delivered hers last week! That was a story in itself. I transposed her address so I actually dropped off the gift—and Owen’s book!—at the wrong house!!! There were a few moments of panic on my end because Owen’s book is irreplaceable and I kept thinking WHAT IF… Plus with the Corona thing, it’s not like she could just go knock on the other person’s door! And I felt horrible that I screwed it up. Well, some quick googling got me property records and a name which got me to LinkedIn where I recognized the guy who had been inside the screen door at a desk (I had just assumed it was her husband) and his posted resume had a phone number! I called and left a message explaining everything…and he called back almost immediately—he had been talking to her! She had walked down and they had a nice chat! In a bizarre turn of events, his daughter’s name was Heather and she was a teacher so he just thought it was a gift for her and didn’t even think anything of it! But he was very nice about it and even joked about enjoying the margaritas!
I’ve taken control of my chair!
And even asked Tom to move it out to the grass for a change of scenery!!
I might have gotten sidetracked on the way there. The sun feels so good.
Someone is in my chair.
Okay, we’ll share for a bit.
I’m not going THAT gray. Right?!
But look a little closer… Bunches of ’em. All wiry and short. Gah! Thankfully they aren’t too noticable!!
When it’s been a day…
When it’s been a day and you’re on your second 24 ounce Tervis of margaritas and you throw on one more layer of LipSense and gloss to get through the rest of the night and your hair is a hot mess and you don’t even care because 48oz of margaritas.
I have sneaky friends!
This was left this on my porch today. I love my friends.
A safe porch pickup!
One of my local clients came over to pick up her order today! I might also have sold her a jug of margaritas so she didn’t have to go to the grocery store. Also? We did eventually stand outside about 8′ apart and chat for 15 minutes. It was nice, y’all. #doingbusinessthecovidway
I’m a Maiden again!
Okay so I’ve told you all I never got into this side hustle planning on having a team—and I still don’t really worry about it that much—but it’s still exciting to get that email telling you you ranked up to Maiden!
For those playing along, I have been a maiden before and was actually a higher rank, but unless your team keeps up their sales, you lose your rank. And since I don’t really have any serious sellers on my team, ranking up just happens randomly. This month, I had two people sign up and place qualifying orders plus one who signed up last month and place an order…
Oh, and guess what? Free sign-ups have been extended through this month!! So if you were thinking about it and thought you missed out… You didn’t!! PM me with any questions! Or just click here to join!