Once we got home from our total dream vacation we were straight back into the fire of our crazy lives! We got home on a Tuesday night from an incredible but definitely not restful or relaxing week and were all at school bright and early Wednesday morning! By Friday our brains and bodies were all completely fried and we needed a weekend full of jammies and naps! Funny thing is we got that and more because not only did we have a holiday on Monday for MLK day but a crazy ice storm hit Houston, TX and two days of school were canceled because Houston just isn’t prepared for icey roads! So five whole days at home together helped us recover great! Unfortunately we also had fighting and whining, tantrums and sassyness too, all things that are a little too common around here lately. And then unfortunately, by that Friday Miss Riley threw up at school so we spent another whole weekend at home in our jammies not sharing our germs. But thankfully we recovered well from that also.
It was crazy cold! Wind chill had it set at 9 degrees!! That plus sleet means Houston completely shuts down! Our back patio was a sheet of ice that was 2 inches thick! The girls wanted to play outside but could only last for 30 minutes at a time with it being that cold. And since we don’t own any snow gear we had a serious amount of layers on! At one point Keagan was wearing 4 pairs of leggings!
Poor Riley! But she recovered quickly! And was cracking me up after recovering! Now if we could just recover from Riley’s tantrums and Keagan being sassy then we would be all set!
Wishful thinking...
Just to keep things exciting and busy, because that’s what we do, we added more to our plate. But they are wonderful things! Keagan started a music theater group called DPAC on Wednesday nights with her best friend Avery! The second week they had to prepare a song for an audition and they were both a little nervous. On the way there I looked in the back of the mini van to see them praying together! Two nine year olds!! I can’t explain the swelling of my heart that gave me! When they got to class it turned out the younger kids didn’t have to audition in front of everyone if they didn’t want to. But both Keagan and Avery volunteered and apparently did a fantastic job! The cast list was released and they have 3 parts together so they are thrilled! They are both townspeople, snoozles, and mice! Keagan has a short solo singing part as a mouse! Very exciting! The musical is an original called “Pickle Chiffon Pie” and will be performed in May. Until then Keagan has absolutely LOVED the rehearsals and has even made lots of new friends, lots of whose mommas I’m friends with!
Also on Wednesday I have Young Women’s activities again as I received a new calling or assignment at church to teach the Laurels or the girls ages 16-18. I’ve done this before and loved it and I have an incredible group of girls, but I’m a little leary of the time commitment. However I know we will be greatly blessed for it and we will have so much fun together!
Other random odds and ends...
The girls have put their leftover makeup from the Bippity Boppity Boutique to great use! Mommy and Riley’s stuffed Elsa doll from our trip has had lots of beautiful make overs!
I took Riley to the dentist on Thursday. While we were in the waiting room I was trying to estimate just how many times the two of us were in a doctors waiting room together, mostly at Texas Children’s. Considering she sees 11 specialists and used to go to TCH once a week, my estimate was close to 300! That number made me have a rush of emotions mixed with sadness for all that my girl has been thru and gratitude that she has gotten the best of care for all these years! Oh and a pit in my stomach for all the money I must have spent on parking!
Fortunately the appointment was just a dental exam. Unfortunately I had to of course pin Riley down so the dentist could examin and paint her teeth with fluoride and Riley was VERY mad at me! We had planned to go to lunch together wherever Riley picked but she was so mad at me that she kept pointing to her backpack in the car telling me she wanted to go straight to school and eat lunch there. We got there just at the beginning of her lunch and she wouldn’t even say bye to me, she was so mad. I ended up staying to help my friends with lunch duty in the cafeteria and when Riley was leaving she came to me with a sad look and giving me her sign for “sorry.” It was the cutest thing in the world so of course I swept her up and kissed her sweet face! That is when a 1st grade boy said “ewww, put Riley down! I tried to kiss her once and she doesn’t like it!” That gave me a great laugh!
Friday night we went to one of Coachs basketball games with Gramas, Cherish and sweet LaBelle. We intensely cheered for a intense game that is one of his last’s since he is now an assistant principal. It was fun teaching Keagan all the rules, several of which she responded to “yeah I’ve seen the Wildcats do that” from High School Musical! Hilarious! And Riley was totally following the game and knew exactly when to clap and even yell too! It was a really fun Friday night!
And finally Keagan has unfortunately been dealing with some problems from a mean girl in her 3rd grade class. Other mommas warned me this all started in 3rd grade and Im sad we are seeing it first hand! But it is giving us great conversations, learning experiences and making us appreciate the wonderful, positive, supportive group of friends that she has! And cherish fun and silly play dates like “the crazy sock girl” aka Keagan, Riley and Lauren had last night!
Fill in the rest of the last two weeks with lots of giggles, lots of whining, school, quality family time, fun with friends, homework, not enough sleep, way too much sassyness, unfortunate yelling from Mom, lots of teasing, chores, errands, driving and a whole ridiculous amount of love and you have a typical 2 and a half weeks from us. We sure miss Disneyworld and Give Kids the World Village but I would say we’ve recovered quite nicely!
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