Happy Last Friday of June!
Since school has been out, my summer routine has started, and ba da ba ba baaa, I'm loving it!
Phil and I wake up at 6am (okay don't truly love that part) and then we put on our weighted vests (get one that's 1/10 of your body weight) and walk Lucy Doodle four miles before the day gets too hot for her. You can't really complain about early morning walks when this is your view and you get to be with your bestie for the restie:
Then I get home and do my Ladder app workout for the day (Phil goes to the gym), shower and head off to work for 9am. It's so much easier than the school year, when I have to be at work at 8am and drop off the kids to school by 7:30. Anyway, it's the little things!
This week, I dropped off the youngest three to Track & Field camp at the high school on my way to work each morning. Xander wasn't able to go on the last day (you'll see why later) but these little cuties participated in the Olympics and deserved a shave ice after, for sure.
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| Learning my old track event - shotput! |
OK I'm kind of sorry about posting the ice cream photos to those of you who live far away, but as the Social Media Director (my self made title) it's what takes up most of my camera roll from May-September. This week's special was Biscoff Butter Swirl, a coffee ice cream with biscoff cookie pieces and a cookie butter swirl, and oh my lawd *slaps thigh in admiration* it's divine:
I balance the ice cream "taste testing" with dinners of salads, like this Asian Chicken salad with sesame dressing. Mmmmm. I love eating a salad out of these bowls, they just the right size and pretty and cheap!
Maggie and Xander headed out on Thursday with two busses from our Diocese to attend the Steubenville youth conference this weekend!
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| Cousins at Dark o' Clock (4:30 am) |
Maggie has been sending me texts and photos and videos...and Xander has sent one word responses to my questions. This is why girls rule and boys, well I still love them! It's weird that Xander is old enough to attend the HIGH SCHOOL youth conference, but he is starting 9th grade in the fall so it's legit. This will be Maggie's last conference because she is going into SENIOR YEAR. I want to rewind time to Maggie and Xan at these ages:
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| Xander was most definitely her baby. |
JP found a roommate and apartment in Pittsburgh and moves out to start at Duquesne in 8 days (but who's counting and crying?) I have been playing the game of trying to order Amazon items to arrive at his new apartment between July 1, when his roommate moves in, and July 5 when JP moves in. It's a tight window but a game I enjoy playing. I told him I would buy him a bed for the new apartment - and that includes the bed frame with drawers, mattress, mattress protector, sheets, duvet, duvet cover, pillows, throw pillows and covers - because I need to know he's sleeping well on this med school journey. He can buy me a bed once he's a doctor ;)
My parents took him to Savers (a thrift shop) on a Tuesday (because they get the senior citizen discount) and JP got loads of things there as well:
His roommate is bringing a couch, JP had a TV from college, and we've been gifting him appliances over the last year for bdays and Christmas, so he has an air fryer, a blender, a fancy coffee maker, and he's getting our old crockpot too because he wants to do weekly meal preps. Our goddaughter is giving him a set of plates and it's all going to work out *she whispers to herself multiple times a day*.
I hope you all have a wonderful June weekend! See ya in July!
JP is certainly well taken care of! Buying him the bed etc is a great gift- esp if it gets shipped to the aptt and you don't have to move it!
ReplyDeleteI'd have a harder time sending of my babies away for a youth conference than for college/med school. I get so nervous when my little chicks are away. By college, I've resigned myself to them leaving. However, I did send several kids to the state residential high school , so I had done practice at moving them out.
Who gets JP's bed at home? That was always a big thing for me and then my kids - a shuffling of rooms/beds depending on seniority as one moved out!
Is that Declan doing hurdles? Great form!
Oh I'm tracking the high schoolers and checking in with them probably too much! They are with our pastor and coworkers and friends so that helps!! It's so weird to have anyone gone from under our roof, and it doesn't seem to get too much easier. I think JP's move seems extra big because he's leasing an apartment for two years, so even though I know he'll be home to "visit" he's not moving back home anymore. In the Fall, all three older boys will be out of their room, so we will do some moving around of the youngest three boys who also share a room, but it won't be permanent, just until college kids come back home. I guess JP's bed will be empty? Or maybe we'll get rid of the top bunk in the littles room? Decisions decisions! I certainly want to make sure they all have a bed to sleep in until they are officially moved out :)
DeleteAwwww JP sounds like he is well prepared for medical school! Your Biscoff Cookie ice cream sounds so yummy!
ReplyDeleteIt goes so fast and I keep wanting to rewind but I know this is what we are raising them to do. A momma's heart, man. That Biscoff ice cream certainly helps!
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