Monday moments - blah edition

It's so cold.  I know it's still winter in Michigan.  I don't know why I expect it to be any different.  I can easily stand temps in the 30's or even 20's but this single digit below zero crap has got to go.  Last weekend was such a tease of spring and now I just can't get warm enough.  

So yeah - the weather is a big part of my blahs.  The other part is hard to explain.   I am just tired of doing the same thing over and over and seeing all these tiny fires that need tending to around me and day after day goes by and they are still not dealt with.  I know that was the longest sentence in the world and most likely not grammatically correct, but that is a bit how my days go - blah.

Little things here and there make the days perk up a bit.  Like last Monday when Evan came down dressed up for athletic day at school. 

I found this photo gem while digging.  It is now pasted to our refrigerator.  #goalzz

My homemade cheese broccoli cauliflower soup.  It turned out so good.  Of course the kids would much rather have the thrown together meatball subs of the night before, but I loved it.

Hat day at the middle school.  When I picked him up after play practice he told me he was disappointed in his hat choice.  He thought he had much better choices he could have gone with.  This kid - I don't know where he comes from.

My three lovies after Spencer's skit show on Saturday night. 

His cast photo for the show.  Yes he is upside down on a roller chair.  So strange that one.

Over the weekend the white stuff came back.  I know someone that was happy to get the snowboard back out.

Hailey was super excited (you see what I did there?)  for the Super Bowl.   She was very helpful in cutting up the veggies for our cheese fondue.

Then she made signs for our meager festivities.

She loves to draw and I think she is really great at it.  I tell her that she should be an art teacher when she gets older but she says she is too shy.

A Monday Miracle!

Two weeks in a row!  This may be some kind of record.  I even had a chance over the weekend to go back and pull some pictures from the last few months that I wanted to post - those are still cued up in the edit post file but stay tuned.

I was so happy when I went grocery shopping last week and saw that Mrs. Meyer's has her spring scents out.  I had to buy a lilac  - my absolute favorite. 

Evan is nearing the end of practice for James and the Giant Peach.  I made him pose in his show tee shirt and he was being a goof.

I was trying to think creatively about what to do about a peach inspired bouquet.  I typed peach into the Amazon search engine and it brought up a bunch of stuff including a giant peach squishy and some peach socks.  I ordered both of those thinking I could incorporate them into a bouquet with some other peach inspired things.  The super weird thing was that when I went to check out the total was 19.84 which was EXACTLY the amount I had left on an Amazon gift card in my account.  It was like it was meant to be.

The sun was out and setting and these two decided they wanted to eat outside and enjoy the sunset. 

We had a gorgeous weekend.  The sun was out and the temps got into the forties.  We took advantage and headed down to our happy place to hang out.  The beach was amazing.  Not a breath of wind.  Hailey would have stayed there and messed around with the ice all day.

She liked breaking off chunks and throwing them back onto the ice Frisbee style.  They would shatter and make the coolest sound.

On our walk back she looked up and saw these trees and wanted me to take a picture to be her screen saver.  "It just looks so beautiful!  I love nature!"

On Sunday we ventured back to the shore - this time with Daddy Boy as well.

Yesterday afternoon Hailey made some cut out cookies with dough in the fridge that I had intended to be Christmas cookies.   I am not sure why she went with the Christmas cutters - bold choice.  She had fun decorating her trees and gingy boys. 

Because it's Monday and I am still here sometimes

I really want to get back into blogging.  I feel like I have conversations with myself in my head all day long.  Maybe if  I have somewhere to actually write them down it can quiet the internal noise just a little bit.  

That is pretty deep for right now though so I am going to start with a couple baby steps and just do a quick Monday Moments post of some random photos that have been living in my phone. 

Hailey a week or so ago at her annual physical.  She was devastated that she was going to have to get shots and begging for me not to ok the flu shot.  She looks a little Girl Interrupted here and the "I Love Santa" socks don't do much to help that. 

FYI - she did not get the flu shot but she got two others.  Plus she had a skin thing burned off her leg and left with a slip for a baseline xray for scoliosis.  It was the roughest appointment she has had in a while.

After school homework project with her friend.  I couldn't believe how old they seemed sitting there doing homework on their laptops.

One of Hailey's birthday gifts was Gelli Bath.  Some rando product that turns the water thick and slimy.  She said it was relaxing and she loved it.  It was actually more hot pinky than the murder scene red portrayed in the photo.  Either way I am sure it was not good for her pipes or our actual pipes so I am glad she didn't soak very long.

Spencer decided he wanted to try out contacts.  He is doing well with them but is kind of lazy to put them in in the morning.   This pair he has is a trial for us to determine if we want to order the year supply.  He told me the other day that he felt like most days he would wear glassed but then wear the contacts for show week.  I told him there was no way I was buying a year supply of contacts for him to wear for one week - the split had to be at least fifty fifty or forget it.   He is still pondering what he wants to do.

I spent most of the weekend condensing two linen closets into one.  I was amazingly proud of how well I was able to purge.  This is my bathroom linen closet after all was said and done.  Pretty amazing that a whole big closet was empty and I still had space to spare in our bathroom linen.

Empty hall way linen closet. 

Hailey and I were talking about her upcoming Father Daughter dance.  The theme this year is Red Carpet.  She tried on this dress that was my sisters for fun.  She was not super impressed with it.  I am not sure what I will find for her to wear.

So the empty linen closet we are using for a closet for Hailey.  The closet in her bedroom is way too small and as her clothes get bigger the closet is more and more useless by the day.  She is thrilled about her new space.  I just ordered some closet storage bins from Amazon so we have more to do, but so far we are all extremely happy with how it is turning out.

That is the moments from the past week or so.  Hopefully I can stay on the blog track!

Monday moments...a couple weeks worth

Two weeks ago this girl turned double digits.  I can't even believe it.  I have hopes to do a whole post on her birthday but I jinxed myself and can't get my big girl camera pictures to load to the computer now.  I am quickly growing weary of ever changing technology. 

Her birthday gift from Mother Nature was a snow day the day after her birthday.  I know it doesn't look like much snow, but there was ice underneath that layer.

The cutie picture we posted online to try and sell GS cookies.  Sadly, we haven't had many takers.

A text I got from Spencer.  It is rare to get words out of him lately let alone an I love you.  I thought I better document it.

The birthday decorations that Hailey made for herself.  I had to snap a photo before it all came down.

When I was organizing some papers I came across this note that Spencer wrote to himself who knows when.  I laughed so hard at the "work out after last dress rehearsal".

Another snow day.  The principal posted a challenge to send in a photo of yourself reading and you would get a prize. Hailey made a fort and read in there.

She looks pretty stressed out huh?  Another week, another snow day, another reading challenge.

One night last week when Trent was home late for dinner, Hailey set up a whole dinner scene for him including decking out herself as a waitress at the Blue House Restaurant.  She fashioned a costume out of a box and packing materials.  We couldn't stop laughing.  The girl is a hoot.

Evan and Hailey competing in Chopped Junior.  They needed to make desserts using a croissant, whipped topping and Reeses peanut butter cups.  They LOVE making stuff in the kitchen.