The plan over the weekend was to get everything ready for school, which is no small task when you have half a dozen kids, but we got it done. Done enough, anyway. There's still a few straggling things I'll have to pick up with the next paycheck, but for the most part we did it.
We got the haircuts done and got the kool-aid dye jobs done.
Tell you what, I can't wait for that fad to be over with.
The kids are excited, and that's a good thing. We have our first high schooler this year, four middle schoolers, and only one in elementary.
This school year is going to be busy with three different schedules, and who knows what activities, but I have a feeling it's going to be a good one.
Over the weekend The Man and I attended a sushi making class at Rice Basil. I bought a groupon for the class back in February and had given it to The Man for Valentine's Day.
If you have a spare afternoon, and a groupon, we would highly suggest the class. We learned a lot about not only the art of making different kinds of rolls, but the art of eating raw fish and not getting sick.
Did you know wasabi counters the raw fish?
I didn't.
I think I should stop skipping it.
Granny Suzann called and invited us to see Footloose at the amphitheater. So we grabbed the kids who were home and went with her.
"Now we are like Kevin Bacon!" Guardians of the Galaxy Reference. And also, I can't keep myself from calling it Fooxloose in my mind. Youth Conference reference (here).
We've taken to rearranging the basement. We had the three older girls sharing a bigger room, but the bed situation was a little tight on the top bunk.
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We also had an issue of keeping the bedroom clean and how exactly to monitor that.
So we've spread the girls out in the larger basement area (pictures to come later) and took all the storage and craft items from the larger area and put it into the room.
I'm claiming it as a craft room.
So this was my project on Sunday morning. And probably every evening for the rest of the week. Cleaning out all the junk we piled in there to make room for the girls in the big area, and organizing everything else so I can have my own space.
It's been really frustrating having all my craft stuff out where the kids could get into it whenever they wanted. Things have been lost and broken so many times. I'm looking forward to having it out of reach.
And I can paint the room whatever color I want.
Coming up this week:
School starts for 7 of the 8 of us
My mom goes through surgery for her breast cancer
Another follow up on my lasik (seeing 20/15!)
Dentist appointments times 6
Also, this week I'm back on my schedule of being a better me:
Running before work (ugh, so early!)
Purposeful study of the gospel every night before bed (starting Talmage's Jesus the Christ (here), I can't wait!)
Flylady routines (here) are back on for cleaning/organinzing
I got thrown off with youth conference but I'm back on it. I do so much better in life when I have a schedule to follow. Otherwise, I just get lazy and procrastinate and get nothing done.
Okay, Monday, let's do this.
