At one of my happy places with the kids—the community pool—so my daily annoyance level stays low.
But y’all. One of my kids BROUGHT A WET TOWEL. Like seriously. But I’m a good mom and draped it over a deck chair so it will hopefully dry.
(I’m also getting in a little bit of work so I can feel like I accomplished something today!! I love not sitting in an office to work!)
SHOW OF HANDS: Whose kids would also bring a wet towel to the pool?!
Mine didn’t.
I decided to do a full blue eye with red lips to have a more normal-looking eye instead of a red/white/blue look!
Also? I officially suck at doing other people’s makeup. Especially crazy holiday looks. I didn’t quite mean it to end up like this but oh well. She doesn’t care so it’s all good.
Anna also came over to do a holiday look with my colors since she doesn’t own them (she thought blue was too scary). She looked gorgeous!
And my glitzy earrings that I love!
David got a promotion so we all—kids included!—went to Primo to celebrate! Don’t ask me why Katie looks so awful in this photo—she was having a fun time.
Tom’s youth baseball coaching career is off to a great start—the Phillies are the Gurnee Youth Baseball Mustang Champions! It took two days and 9 innings but they did it!
What made the win even more exciting is that they beat the undefeated Cubs to win! (And the Cubs had actually slaughtered us in a previous game—something like 17-2.)
It was a nail biter for sure—they caught up and we were tied 12-12 which then pushed us into an extra inning! And after no scoring, another inning! And then in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, we scored—which meant the game was immediately over!
A special sidenote: Anna and family showed up again to cheer the team on!
Our boys were killing it! They were on fire! We were ahead 12-9!
But it was getting dark and championship games are mandatory 7 innings (regular games are 5 innings or 2 hours) so they called it at 8pm and said we have to finish tomorrow night! WHAAAAAT?! Apparently they’ve never done that! If the commissioner would have just called it we would have been champions! (There’s more to this story but that’s the gist.) So we have to come back tomorrow night for two innings…
Special best friend sidenote: Anna and family showed up to surprise us! So she was able to actually take a picture of me at baseball!
Playing in a friend’s pool at a mom group family get together makes for an exhausted kid. This was at 11:30!
A friend of mine was in town to drop off her ferret for another friend to watch…but she stopped at my house first to pick up an order. So I thought the kids would like to check out a ferret for the first time…
Katie came down to get new cereal this morning and while she was digging for what she wanted on the shelf, five boxes ended up on the floor and that’s where they stayed. Plus the completely empty box to the left.
Breathe. Breathe.
I brought Owen to the pool and not Katie because she was a complete shit earlier and she needs to learn that bad behavior is not rewarded. #momballs as Anna says.
Also? Anytime my preteen wants to jump in a selfie with me I’m taking it.
Do your kids leave your apology (and sometimes love) notes outside your room?
We’re working on Owen’s acne…so he’s using SeneGence products plus salon facials. Yes, he’s getting spoiled.
Our friend Kim gave Katie this dress she wore to Homecoming in eighth grade. Of course she had to put it on right away and add the boots!
Finding ice cream wrappers under the sink in the basement bathroom.
Our first (of hopefully many!) vacations together really couldn’t have gone much better! Lots of laughs, relaxation, drinks, excellent food, shopping, outdoor stuff, and tons of memories…with only a few kid squabbles. It was over way too soon for sure. Thanks to my dad and stepmom for hosting our motley crew! Can’t wait to do it again!
The kids wanted to go back to the nearby roadside park to climb the rocks again so Anna took them…and got some great pics!
The boys were having a blast!
So Katie decided she wanted to go, too. And it started with super big happy smiles…and very quickly devolved into extreme pouting as she realized it was too windy and wasn’t as easy as she wanted. Ahhh vacation.
And this might be my fave photo from the whole trip… Happy boy.
We took the kids to mini golf in Copper Harbor and due to Covid (short staffing) there was no one working so you paid your money and grabbed the balls and clubs and you could play as long as you wanted! A total dream, right?
Wellllll, we thought they would have a blast and they were okay with us leaving them alone while we ran to check out the campground and general store… except as we were headed back, we saw three of them walking on the side of the road.
UMMMM WHAAAAAT?!
Turns out Owen freaked the hell out (he says because we were taking forever and he couldn’t get ahold of us—phones but no phone service). We thought we were beyond that behavior and paranoia (he’s been staying alone for awhile now) but apparently the not-having-contact thing was the breaking point. So he took off down the road to…try and find us? Find other adults? We’re not quite sure. But Katie and Aiden were with him so they kind of all stayed together.
Of course we felt horrible…but we had zero idea that would be an issue.
Honey chased after Anna all the way down the shoreline and out onto someone’s dock!!
The kids were running around collecting bugs and we were very confused. Then we discovered that they had all the bugs under glass and were watching spiders catch ants and flies. I guess that’s what they resort to when devices are removed and it’s rainy out! #notcomplaining
It was sunny and nice but the water was freezing (as expected). We all walked the shore and looked (somewhat successfully) for beach glass. The kids did go in the water a tiny bit but didn’t swim!
They were remote for most of the year but both went back full time at the end (and both did much better)! Here’s looking ahead to more normal fourth and seventh grades!
Look at the furry photobomber!!
It was super sunny and hot at baseball —with no shade of course —so I was under our tent and an umbrella!
We got here at 4:30 and it’s still crazy busy and not many seats left in the shade. There’s not much social distancing going on except the people seated in the grass.
But sitting in the shade with the breeze blowing and knowing the kids are having fun and listening to happiness all around me makes my heart happy that we are actually able to be here.
