February 12, 2026

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• Campbell and Keaton went to Mother's Day Out this morning; they even left the house early so they could run by ChickFilA to get some free breakfast sandwiches. Plus they were all dressed out in their pink and red because today was their Valentine parties.
• Whitman and I did our work together this morning, and then he asked if I was going to pay him a dollar to get his school done before lunch. I told him that I would not be paying for school, and he finished around 5. 
• Graham slept a bit late, and then he went on a run. Pretty much he did everything he could do except for his school work. He has a paper coming up that he hasn't started working on yet, so that will be a priority next week.
• Whitman and I were walking out of the house to take Marley to the vet when we realized that Robby just got home. He drove us to the vet, and it took us about 11 minutes for our appointment. Marley is now 24 pounds, and he said that she was fine to start going on walks.
• As soon as we came home, I took that little puppy on a walk to the end of our driveway. We have a lot of leash work to do though. She did really well walking away from the house, but then she just got plumb crazy on the walk back towards the house. 
• I dropped her off and tucked her into bed, and then left for a real walk with Bentley. She enjoyed our walk so much that she didn't want to go up the driveway towards the house. Though when I did get her near the house, I quickly dropped her off also. My walks are a lot quicker with just me because I don't stop to use the bathroom on the side of the road.
• The girls got home with lots of Valentine's treats-Keaton even got a 25 dollar gift card. I never got my teachers a Valentine growing up-things have certainly changed. They were home for a bit, but then they left again to go back to church to work tonight. 
• After Whitman and I packed for his Big Chill retreat this weekend, Graham and I picked up and left to meet Robby at Graham's basketball game. Graham's team won by 2 points-they had been ahead by 8, but lost the lead in the last little bit making the last bit of the game stressful. 
• We ran to David's Burgers to get supper on the way home for two reasons. First, Robby and I had a burger from David's last week, and it was delicious. The other reason that we went to David's was because after last weeks game, Robby picked Graham up two burgers from Wendy's, and they were the sorriest, smallest burgers that we had ever seen. Robby felt like he needed to make up for those burgers!