- On this first day of spring break, I woke Campbell up at an early 10:00 so she could come and run some errands with me. On the opposite side of things, Whitman woke up around 4 this afternoon.
- Campbell and I went to Nonna and Pops' house first. Campbell had a quesadilla for her early lunch while I help Pops send an email. Then we went to Walmart where Campbell was shocked by the amount of money that I spent. It wasn't that much, but I had a few things on the list, and it added up quickly.
- Then we stopped at her favorite place-HteaO-and she used a gift card to buy herself a drink. Keaton called right when we were about to leave asking if I would go in and get her a drink. I did, but she had to pay for that.
- We came home, and I went to work on a few things from my Spring Break list. My goal is to knock out 2.5 items a day. Some of those are things that I don't want to do-like clean the potties. And some of those things are just going to take me a few days-like get things ready for Camp Geyer.
- I have to try out all of my recipes for Camp Geyer (I'm in change of the cooking track) so I can write down every step and everything that I need (1/4 t of salt per child, 2 T of greek yogurt per child, 1 plastic spoon....you get the picture.)
- Usually, I would just make one recipe that uses the oven and one recipe that doesn't involve cooking each day. Last year, however, I was brave and made two recipes that used the oven one day. This time, I'm going to try to make one recipe in the oven and while that is cooking make one recipe on a griddle. (30-40 kids so I'll need quite a few griddle action happening)
- Anyway, today I was going to try out my mini apple pie recipe-we had bought all of the ingredients this weekend for me to sample everything. I couldn't find my apple though today. Robby said he had already stopped Keaton from eating it yesterday. I asked Campbell, but she said no, so I went to ask Whitman. He was still snoozing, but he quickly said that he had an apple. I asked if it was good, and he said yes so I let him go back to sleep.
- I moved on to my griddle recipe. I had to fourth the recipe which was fairly easy since some recipes usually make 20 things when I need each kid to just make their own so that is some math happening. I should have timed myself making the recipe, but I did take how long it took on the griddle-about a minute a half per side. If each griddle can get 5 on, and I have 30-40 kids, and 4 griddles, then each griddle will need to do 2 batches. This means that they can all be cooked on 10 minutes-who knew there would be so much math involved in Vacation Bible School.
- In the middle of my cooking and mathing, Graham wrote asking if I was coming to Bryant. Robby had just left the house. He wanted a pickleball paddle and offered to just come and get it. I told him that I would meet him so we met, and then he went to play pickleball with some buddies.
- When I came back, Campbell mentioned that I left the kitchen in a wreck. I explained that I had to write everything out and make my detailed notes before I cleaned up.
- After I did all of that I read some before taking Bentley on a walk. Both girls had friends over tonight so Robby brought home food when he came home. We all ate, and now I'm trying to decide if I want to read some more or if I want to look at school things for next year.
March 24, 2025
March 23, 2025
- Church this morning, but we didn't have to wake anyone up. Whitman was already in the living room when I got up, and Robby said that he could hear the girls moving upstairs getting ready. He also text Graham just to make sure that he was awake, and he was.
- Graham met us at church-he was able to leave much later than we usually do since he was so much closer to the church house. Church was a little bit down, but the kids Sunday school was really down-Whitman said that were only about 20 people there (and 4 of those were Dennies.).
- We then all went to Grannyom's to eat lunch. We ate and then watched a little bit of a basketball game before heading home. Robby and I dropped off the 3 littles, and then we left again.
- We dropped the suburban off at the shop-it isn't blowing cold air which is fine now, but in a few weeks that won't be ok. The suburban is about 180 miles from having 400,000 miles on it. We can't put too much money in it so if the price is too high, we might just have ourselves a winter only car.
- We then went to Kroger to pick up a few snacks for Graham. We stocked him up with waffles, sandwhich things, my leftover from last night, some panda express, leftover cinnamon rolls. and some lemonade. He won't starve for the next few days at least.
- I didn't talk to Reagan today, but she is having fun with her friends. They spent a good deal of their morning at church, and then went back for Sunday night church this evening. Since Anderson is on the cruise, we aren't able to talk to him. However, Robby is signed in to the ship's ap where the boys can text, so he gets some of their text. They are texting things like, "basketball?" "ice cream?" and "belly flop contest at 1?" So we figure that they are having a lot of fun.
- When we made it home this afternoon, I laid down for a minute while Robby worked on his computer. Then I started on supper-I made chicken enchiladas which I think were pretty good. Then I made a chocolate cobbler which was good as well. The Wilsons came over and we were able to eat, visit, and watch basketball for a good while. Now we are watching the end of a game, and then the wonderful weekend will be over.
March 22, 2025
- I believe that I have completed my cinnamon roll challenge. This morning I woke up and made my 5th batch of cinnamon rolls (it may have been my 6th batch-I can't remember). And today, was actually the winning cinnamon rolls.
- Here were all of the cinnamon roll results. 1. Cook like Lauren's cinnamon rolls (Sara's recommendation) 2. Sourdough discard cinnamon rolls. 3. Sourdough cinnamon rolls (Sara's recommendation). 4. Traci's cinnamon roll recipe 5. Pulaski Tech's cinnamon roll class recipe. 6. Pioneer Woman's cinnamon rolls.
- This was a fun experiment, but please don't send my your cinnamon roll recipes. I have not moved on to collecting 12 excellent cake recipes. (I have 3.) I really would like to perfect some type of sandwich bread ( sourdough or yeast), but I haven't started on that quest.
- After Robby and I ate, we headed off to run a few errands. Then we came back home to quickly wake up the girls and Whitman so we could head to Grannymom's house. Graham met us there, and we watched the Hogs play their basketball game.
- Around that same time, or maybe earlier in the day Anderson and his crew boarded their ship for the next few days. Robby is able to see some of the boys' text on the app-looks like they are having fun and staying busy.
- I left early with Campbell, Keaton, and Whitman. I dropped the girls off at their babysitting gig, and then Whitman and I came home. I was able to nap and then wake up in time to see the Hogs pull off an upset.
- Robby and I went out to eat with the McGuires tonight. The food was good, but the conversation was even better. Graham came and picked up his sisters from their babysitting house and brought them home. On his way back to his house sitting house, he picked up some supper.
- We came home tonight, and the three kids here were cycling through the showers getting ready for tomorrow.
March 21, 2025
- I woke Anderson up first this morning. He got up, took a shower, and then checked and rechecked his list. I think that he was little worried about forgetting something. I then dropped him off at Daniel's, and they headed towards Galveston. I've talked to him once today, and he said that they were almost there.
- When I came home, I woke up Graham. He did one school thing, and then it was just about time for him and Campbell to leave for work. They don't have to work on Monday so they were pleased about that.
- I spent most of the morning marking things off of my list and being pretty productive. I wasn't nearly as productive this afternoon or evening. I have a list of things I want to do over Spring Break, but I can already tell my list might have been a bit much to actually accomplish.
- Reagan and her crew left this afternoon. They were headed to a friend's house for Spring Break. She has had this trip planned since early last semester so I know that they are going to have so much fun-one place they are going to stop is Costco.
- When Graham came in from work, he was here for a little bit before he left. He went to his dog sitting gig. He did send me a picture for their two tvs plus his computer all turned on to basketball. You could even see the dog in the background so he isn't completely neglecting his responsibilities.
- Keaton and Whitman spent a bit of the afternoon on the trampoline. They were having a challenge to see who could stay on the trampoline the longest. Whitman won so tomorrow he will claim a box of candy.
- Tonight I made some cheese fries for supper for the kids. I didn't have any of those, and instead I had hot chocolate and then later on ice cream. Basketball has been on the tv all day long, and it is still on.
March 20, 2025
- Since Campbell and Keaton didn't have Mother's Day Out today, they didn't have much school to do so they slept in this morning. That just meant that the boys were the only ones awake working. Whitman will finish his language arts tomorrow so I gave him the choice of doing two lessons today or one today and one tomorrow so he, not surprisingly, picked to do one tomorrow.
- Around 1, Whitman and Anderson left to go and do some yard work at Pops' house. They picked up some sticks and pulled up a bush or two. Anderson then hurried home, dropped Whitman off, and had just a few minutes at home before he left to work soccer practice.
- I also left at 1 with everyone else. Graham wanted a hair cut, and Campbell and Keaton just wanted to leave the house. I dropped them off at Target, and then we went to get Graham's hair cut. His hair cut is pretty short, but it really looks good-and I usually feel like they don't cut it short enough.
- The girls had a good shopping trip at Target. Campbell had a gift card leftover from her birthday so she had an especially fun trip spending it. She spent more than her gift card, but fortunately for her, whens he came home, she had a check waiting for her in the mail.
- Most of the afternoon and the evening has been spent watching basketball around here. While Anderson was at practice, the rest of us went to Grannymom's house to watch the Hogs play. We were all rooting for the Razorbacks except for Whitman who didn't pick them on his bracket.
- Robby and I just had a little bit of ice cream, and now Anderson is going to finish packing for his trip! Graham is planning on packing a tv for his dog sitting gig so I guess those things will be gathered tonight too.
March 19, 2025
- Once again Bentley refused to go on a walk this morning. She was fine walking this afternoon despite the wind so I'm not sure what is going on in her little head. Honestly, I would prefer not waking with her in the morning since I'm needing to hurry, but she needs to go out and do all of her business so I have to take her at least for a little bit.
- We did our school this morning, and things went smoothly. Anderson and Whitman were going to go and pick up sticks for Pops today, but with the wind like it was, they put that off until tomorrow. We had to chase grill covers and outdoor cushions a few times today.
- Graham and Campbell went to work today, but they were hoping that the power would go ahead and just stay out so they could skip work. Our power has blinked on and off all day-tonight it blinked for the longest it had yet, but so far it always does come back on.
- Tonight was church for everyone-Campbell drove me to the library. She sure was not going to go from the library to church at 5 since traffic is wild. I think that she could have done it, but she was quick to switch seats with me.
- After church, Campbell, Anderson, and Graham all went to Chickfila. I found me some leftover mexican for supper, but that was kind of spicy so now I would like some ice cream, but that would involve me getting off of the couch so I'm not sure about that.
March 18, 2025
- I tried to take Bentley on a walk this morning, but we made it to the driveway when she stopped. I think that she heard some dogs barking, and she was not going to go one step farther either way. I had to drag her back to the house.
- I then woke everyone up for school-some of the kids get right up (Whitman) while others don't (Anderson). The kids are slowly plugging through their school work. I'm making Whitman do extra on his language arts this week so he will be finished with that-this will save him (and me) lots of time every day.
- We had finished with most everything school wise by 12:30 when I left with Campbell and Graham. Our main mission was for Graham to take his writing accuplacer test-well, he took it. Last time he just needed one more point so I thought surely he would do it today. Maybe because Campbell was with me or maybe because I was sure he could do it today, I didn't think about writing the grandmas to have them start praying for his score-I should have done that.
- I know that he was discouraged afterwards-I certainly was. He has until probably July to get the score he needs, but I think that worst case scenario will be that he can take the class that he needs next spring and have more time on the test.
- We then went to pick up Campbell's glasses. She has been so anxiously awaiting them. Of course she looks cute in them-and she kept talking about how much better she could see. I think that her prescription is pretty similar and possibly even the same. Maybe these are just a lot cleaner.
- When we came home, I finished working with Whitman and urged him to finish his work. I then started to pull things out for Anderson to take on his trip. Anderson left to go to work this afternoon while I was getting ready to leave for my class meeting.
- I left a bit early so I could buy some snacks for Anderson's trip on Friday and for the family that he is riding down there with. I also bought a few things for the Operation Christmas child shoeboxes-my goal is to do them in March each year so I'm steadily working on those (if I spend a little bit of extra money each time I shop, Robby never notices.)
- I then went to class meeting-there were lots of good food there. Our activity tonight was bingo-we had all paid some so there were prizes. I did win the very first prize-paper plates and napkins which will be perfect for our Easter lunch.
- Robby came home with pizza for the kids to eat, and when I came home Andrew was over visiting with Robby. He had brought us a lemon blueberry pound cake from costco which Robby and I have always wanted to try and have just never bought.
- Keaton spent a good deal of the evening sewing-her and her friend have sold about 6 or maybe more shirts. She is working on finishing 2 of them tonight and tomorrow. I'm glad that she has a project to do-I haven't started on my next crochet project. I actually haven't even been able to concentrate enough to read lately so I'm getting behind on all of my things.
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