2022 :: week 4

January 23

Wicked lit a fire inside Lauren and she was reminded how much she likes musicals after we went. He music teacher decided that the 4th grade will put on a musical this spring and she spent the week preparing for the upcoming auditions. Lauren decided to make posters for a few of her "favorites" musicals over the weekend. These are all the musicals she has seen, though she has only seen Hamilton on Disney+. She saw Annie at Tuchahan this past summer, and we saw it at Theatre in the Park a few summers ago as well. Our family has also seen Matilda,  Newsies and Joseph... at Theatre in the Park (though she opted not to make a sign for Joseph because she said it was too hard).

January 24

The boys' basketball league is run through a local Baptist church. Each week at practice they have a devotional and each week during the devotional I get worried at what Elliott might say. He often makes comments and I heard him reference the Book of Mormon at least once. I generally don't want my kids to hide themselves under a bushel, but this doesn't really seem to be the time to "let your light so shine."

January 25

It got cold again and on Tuesday I had to jump Anthony's car again. We had the missionaries over for dinner so I went and picked him up from work when it wouldn't start, then after dinner we drove back to his work and jumped it again. Wednesday morning he took it to an auto shop he likes after the clerks at AutoZone said they wouldn't help him install a new one. I also took our van in for its 100K mile tune up and found out it needs $3K in maintenance. Who said adults have more fun? Side note: the third floor of the building in the background is where Anthony works. 

January 26

Miles wants to be do everything Elliott does. I found him Wednesday afternoon on my bed wearing Elliott's Royals hat, reading Elliott's weekly reading assignment. 

January 27

Friday marked the 100th day of school (for Kindergarteners). With Will and Lauren I was so on top of this milestone and we had their 100th day projects done days in advance. With Elliott I had to run to Target to pick up some M&Ms after dinner on Thursday. 

January 28

Miles had a runny nose so we laid low on Friday and I tried to clean our my closet. I was pretty pleased with how organized my closet was looking until I walked into the TV room and saw that Miles had made quite the mess. Two steps forward, one step back with a toddler.  

January 29

The weather was gorgeous and the kids spent a lot of time playing outside on Saturday. A neighbor's granddaughter who drove on our street a few times came to our house and requested to speak with me. She said she had seen the kids playing in the road and not looking while they crossed the street. I was pretty sure it wasn't my kids who were playing unsafely in the road, but they were playing in our driveway. I had to remind myself that I am glad she cares about the well being these children she didn't know, and that it must take courage to confront a stranger and give them negative feedback. I also told the kids to play in the backyard after that because I just didn't want to think about it anymore.