Tuesday, August 26, 2025
I want to dot the earth too
HUNTR/x
Kpop demon hunters is “the best movie ever made,” according to Delaney. It is all the rage with the 4-17 crowd in our family, and most of the US actually. The songs are catchy.
Two miracles happened today. I needed to go shopping so I was gathering all the things and grabbed my purse to have ready on the bench. I had found a dime in the book (the catch all junk place) and I’m trying to take care of all the little things I’ve gone blind to, so I went to put it in my wallet only it wasn’t there. When I know I’ll be at church all day I leave my wallet under the seat in the car and since Adi’s driving the silver bullet to school, Matt’s officially taken over the space car and I’m back to the jolly green, which feels weird but that’s another story. Matt had the space car (and my wallet) at work. I’m so grateful to have realized the wallet issue before I was at the checkout counter.
Miracle #2. When we ordered our cabinets *checks notes* back in December we opened a Lowe’s card and long story short I have a credit on it. So I was looking for it to buy our cabinet knobs and also the last few door knobs we’re switching over from brass, (see above finishing things I’ve gone blind to) but couldn’t find it. I looked in all my places and Matt’s places and I was stumped. I got online to report it lost and was prompted to check my wallet one more time, (I’d gotten my wallet back by this time, obviously) but it still wasn’t in there. I went to check with Matt one more time, and show him the pic of what the card looked like, and his wallet was sitting on his desk. I said, let me check your wallet one more time too, and there she was. I believe in miracles and am trying to pay more attention, so there you have it
When I did get my wallet back I ran all the errands. Dropped things at the thrift store, convenience center, and church, talked to yet another Lowe’s manager about our cabinets, got gas, free Crumbl cookies, Harris Teeter (for their weekend coupon), and finally Aldi. I got home in the 10 minute window between Adi and Delaney so I had help with groceries. 🎉
It was actually pretty warm today so Delaney happily went to the pool with me before dinner since Frankie was still at practice and we had family night after dinner.
We only have a few more days with our pool and I’m gonna be so sad when it closes.
I made dinner and a family night dessert and we finally were able to do fathers blessings, Delaney taught a cute lesson on the word of wisdom, and Adi had us play one of our fun new (to us) YouTube name that song/movie/tv show games where they show you a tiny clip and you guess what it’s from. It was a good one.
I took one picture today and it was of my German chocolate poke cake. Pretty tasty.
And then, since I’ve been staying up way too late, we all went to bed at the same time at 9:00. Pretty sure I was asleep by 9:30, which is why I was awake by 4:00. 😫 Why old lady traits, why??? ðŸ˜
Also, I just remembered one more miracle. The other day Delaney asked when dance starts again because she’s excited. She’s excited! She said even though she knows it will be hard she can’t wait. This is an answer to prayers for this little sour patch girl. Miracles abound.
Monday, August 25, 2025
Lovely
Yesterday was Charlene’s funeral. I didn’t think I would cry, as I’m not sad for her, but I’ll be darned if I didn’t cry through the whole thing. it was a really lovely service.
We shopped at Lowe’s for handles and swam and prepared for Sunday.
This morning was stake council. so meeting from 7-9 at the stake center. It was good and productive and we had a missionary report which is the best. Then I went to White Plains where I was able to hear that same missionary speak, so it was double good. I was able to talk to some really amazing sisters and then council with their RSP. On my way home I chatted with Amy, then Adi made cookies and the girls came together to make brekkie sandwiches for dinner. We went for a family walk and it was just a really lovely Sunday.
In her RS lesson Kristen shared this beautiful picture of the Savior that I had never seen before and as I tried to straighten it I somehow cropped it weird and added a border and, listen, I have other talents. 🤣
Also, I would like to be a cooler lady and I was sitting in a meeting the other day and realized I was the only middle aged woman there still clinging to my side part with my cold dead hands. So after church today I gave myself a middle part to see if the girls think I can pull it off with my curly girl ‘do and they all agreed that I cannot. 🤣 Alexis and Jeanne said yay, but Christian said it was weird, Matt said I look like an 80’s rocker, and the little girls said maybe not. Alli and Amy said not just no, but heck no. 🤣 Being a curly girl is hard. Maybe if I straighten my hair I could make it work?Saturday, August 23, 2025
Fri-yay

Alecia and I walked this morning and got all caught up on our whirlwind summer. Summer just went by really so fast.
During scripture time Delaney rolled herself up like a burrito. Just because.
Thursday, August 21, 2025
Out of the Blue
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
1st day blues
First of all, I stayed up too late but it was worth it. So. Satisfying.
Second of all, that 6:00am alarm clock was brutal. Only 179 more to go.Everyone was in good spirits and had extra time for pictures and brekkie.
I thought about doing a big breakfast or even getting donuts... but then I didn't.
8th grade cutie! She had a good day, liked most of her teachers and was especially stoked to find her ELA teachers daughter is one of her fav ballet teachers! All of that and she still talked about home schooling when she got home. This is one of those - should I push, or should I nurture? Line upon line, I guess.
Frankie was tired but excited. Her cheer coaches gave them maps of the school so they could map their classes. There are several freshman on the team and I can't imagine a poor freshman walking into that maze of a school without the benefit of an open house, but they did it.
She came home capital T tired because she also had a 2 hour cheer practice and annoyed because of boys. She was pretty quiet and will need a weekend to catch up on her rest.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Twas the night before school...
Monday, August 18, 2025
Last middle school open house EVER!
Sunday, August 17, 2025
Heading home
I couldn't believe it was already time to head home. That 2 weeks went by really quickly! I grabbed a few pictures as we double checked all the rooms before we left.
The house was situated on a decently steep hill, there are several identical as you continue up, and they're build on stilts so you have an amazing view off the 360 balcony and with all the windows.Amy, Lexi, and Christian's families left early. Frey and Tom's families were flying out that afternoon at 4:00, so they had time to kill. And we didn't see a reason to rush out either since our drive was only 7.5 hours. We decided to take a picture in front of the house. ***test shot***
The drive was smooth and easy until we hit about 45 minutes worth of slow moving traffic. Traffic does not make sense to me, but it is annoying. For my birthday I requested a Purple seat pad, like my Purple mattress, and I used that on the drive and have to admit, my tailbone was not sore. Because I was sitting a little higher though because of the pad, my knee was sore. Getting old is fun.
We stopped for lunch at chicfila and I decided to take a dayquil because my scratchy throat and coughing was giving me a headache. For some reason I was thinking the dayquil was the blue one, and my crew was like, no, it's the orange one. So we go inside and I filled up my water and take 1 dayquil, and I had the other one in my mouth when Adi said "mom, why are you taking a nyquil?" From the parking lot into the restaurant I flubbed it up. So needless to say my turn driving was over. Which, I love sleeping in the car but did feel bad for Matt. He was fine with it, he knew how sick I'd been. The rest of our trip went so fast because I was sleeping so we weren't stopping. 😂 I am a joy to travel with. 😇 We got home at 7:00 and got the car unloaded and most things put away. I had done laundry in Tennessee so it was super easy to unpack.
We got to bed at a decent hour and were all bright and ready for church the next day. Everyone rated the trip an 8/10, so I'd say that's pretty successful!
Catching up!
It was fun! I'm surprised we'd never been.
We hung out till his next race and got some pictures and then went on our merry way.
Why does summer have to end? I mean, I love Fall too, but summer freedom! Pool time! Family vacations! 😩
This sweet smiling lady! Getting pictures is my favorite thing!
Heather and I spoke in the Branch today. I need to remember for next time that I don't need a translator. I can translate my talk online and then practice it with Matt, and I know enough Spanish to get by. It went well and we were able to catch up and also talk to the new branch organist and iron some things out there, so it was a great day at church. There was traffic coming home so I went through Indian Head and I do love me a country lane.
Today is Lily's birthday and Adi made her the sweetest gift. She blinged out a box, totally personalized and then filled it with some of her favorite things. I especially love that Henry's giant head is front and center! 😆