Alright! So, Quarantine hasn't slowed us down! It has been hectic as ever- actually- MORE so! So nows the time for some updates! (I feel like I'm a newscaster right now, haha!). New house, surgeries, home improvement projects, endless phone calls with this house business, kids home 24/7, I'm suddenly a 1st and 3rd grade teacher and a tap/ballet teacher, and.... Shawn had some exciting news! Read caption below... |
| Starting a new career with a different company (after being with the same company for 6+ years) is so unnerving. Starting a career with said company during a pandemic is even MORE scary. But a company sought Shawn out awhile back and offered him a new job. After a lot of back and forth and “should-we/ |
Next up... We broke quarantine rules (🙈) and trekked up to the Berlien’s house (some of our neighbor friends) to watch the Parade of Teachers. It was SO SWEET to see them all!!! (I was so annoying with all my screams the whole time; I just couldn't contain myself!!😩) But seriously, we have the best teachers. It was good for my soul to see everyone!❤️❤️
Along with just staying busy, we've also entered our Storm Season! If you know me at all, you know that I LOVE Oklahoma storms. There is NOTHING like them. I swear that's a huge reason why I love living here. The thunder storms are amazing. Anyway, we had a super cool storm the other night and when it cleared up we had THE coolest clouds I've ever seen. EVER. Also, when there is no lightning out, my kids love playing outside in the warm Summer rain :)
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| The calm before the storm..... |
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| No filter on the sky. This is the craziest sky I’ve ever seen...Ever! Oklahoma, you’ve done it again!😍☁️☁️ |
We've done some art projects, science experiments and LOTS of school work... Tomorrow is our LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!! It's been a LONG 8 weeks....
We've gone on walks. Piper learned to ride a bike without training wheels! and Sully learned to ride a big-boy bike (instead of his tricycle) with training wheels.
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| My kids will miss this play set SO MUCH in the new house! And they’re sold out everywhere so who knows if we will be able to get our hands on another one. All I know, is that this structure has been well-loved and lived in for 4 years now. I’m sad to leave it behind! 15 more days... |
Another thing I busied myself with this week was some dance pictures of the Pi Baby. I wrote this a few days ago, before I had to break some news to her. I'll copy and paste from Facebook here so that I don't have to re-write it. This was Sunday May 3rd.
"Since studio dance pictures didn’t get to happen this year, I took it upon myself to take pictures of her. But- I haven’t told her that her big annual recital is cancelled yet.... I keep planning to, but she’s so excited about it. I just can’t break it to her. She chooses to do 9 months of dance each year JUST for the recitals. When I was doing her hair and makeup for these pictures she kept saying over and over how excited for the recital she was. I hinted that it was cancelled by saying “but what if it can’t happen this year because of Corona?” And she said “oh, they’ll reschedule it. It’s the best day of the year! They CAN’T cancel it.” I didn’t want to make her sad before pics so I just left it alone. But it’s written in big bold letters on my calendar (when I filled it out months ago) so I know I need to tell her like, now. I cannot tell you how hard this virus has been for this girl. She struggles with anxiety big time and all these changes have caused so much emotional turmoil for her. I know it’s hard for everyone, but she hasn’t coped well and there’s nothing I can do to fix it😥 Anyway, she was going to dance to Frozen 2 songs (one tap, one ballet). If I can get her to perform them just for me, I’ll have to share them. I’ve watched her practicing them up in her room since mid-March and they’re so adorable! I’m proud of her either way."
The next day I told her. It was horrible. I cried harder than she did. So hard, in fact, that SHE came up to comfort ME. I couldn't help myself. I LOVE watching her perform and my heart breaks that I don't get to see it this year. I'm so angry that this is happening. That she has worked so hard on her dances for nothing. I'm mad at her dance studio for not even thinking about rescheduling and instead just ending it this way. I'm HATEFUL at the Virus. I'm suspicious that there is something fishy going on behind the scenes of our government, and I'm sad about everything :( Sorry for the rant. It's just really not fair.... But she looked so beautiful in her pictures. And by the way, all of her poses were HER idea. She was doing a million poses. I had to delete most of them, haha! She is so cute.
And in case you didn't think we were busy enough... I just got back from the dentist where I got the titanium part of my tooth implant put in. The dentist said I'm going to be extremely sore. It's stitched together right now so I haven't really been able to get a good look at it, but I'm not looking forward to the next few days :( They drilled it into my jawbone and it will take about 4 months to fuse to the bone, and then at that point I will get the crown put on it (the actual fake tooth). For now I just have a metal stick sticking out of my gums. It's crazy (but awesome!) how much dentists can do!
Annnnnd, last but not least- we only have 14 more days in this house! I can't believe it!!!
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