Adi made a blue hole with jello for school. Before she brought it home she and all her friends stuck their hands in and played with it. We had to laugh that you could still see the Ray on the bottom so clearly. Oops.
Thursday was a talk writing day. Things I did instead:
Cleaned out all the condiments in the side shelves of the fridge and reorganized the junk drawer. There comes a point before every talk or meeting or lesson I give where I realize I don’t have a single thought in my head and I’m on the wrong track. I hit that yesterday and then got over it. I knew immediately what I was supposed to speak about and I’ve been working on it for weeks, so I know it’s fine. It’s just the adversary stirring up my insecurities. I know this game and I’m not playing into it.
We watched the weather all day yesterday. It did like the weather do - snowy, rainy, nothing, maybe? Rainy, snowy, maybe? Finally last night it looked like it was leaning more towards snowy, but St. Mary’s still hadn’t called school.
And that is the story of how we woke up at 5:20 and got the phone call at 5:40 that we’d have a 2-hour delay. I missed the 5:30 text. 🤷♀️ Adi wanted to write “Stonewall” Smith (the nickname the high school set gave our superintendent) a strongly worded letter, but really they’re doing the best they can and someone, lots of someone’s are always going to be upset. Adi went back to bed and I worked on my talk. It does feel like we keep being just on the edge of the weather and missing most of it, so that’s a bummer.
This week of school:
And that is the story of how we woke up at 5:20 and got the phone call at 5:40 that we’d have a 2-hour delay. I missed the 5:30 text. 🤷♀️ Adi wanted to write “Stonewall” Smith (the nickname the high school set gave our superintendent) a strongly worded letter, but really they’re doing the best they can and someone, lots of someone’s are always going to be upset. Adi went back to bed and I worked on my talk. It does feel like we keep being just on the edge of the weather and missing most of it, so that’s a bummer.
This week of school:
Monday - off for MLK
Tuesday - delay
Wednesday- delay
Thursday - full day
Friday - delay
Not too shabby, we’ll take it.
Today chantell and I were trying for take 3 of our temple and lunch date aaaand, cancelled again. Matt didn’t think I should risk crossing the bridge and 95. Matts less conservative than I am when it comes to snow, so I’ll follow his advice. 4th times the charm anyway, right?
Speaking of chantell, the day after Christmas we met up with the Virginia Rays in Richmond for pho and ice skating.
Incidentally, the day after Christmas is a terrible day to travel even 2 hours and we hit a ton of traffic.
I have not been ice skating since Matt and I were dating 19 years ago. I was nervous as heck that I’d fall and break something. #oldlady
The girls were great, got right out there and went for it. Frankie was skating backwards and doing twirls, sweet adi skated with me a lot because for the first hour I wanted to hold a hand, and Delaney fell like 20 times, but! she kept getting back up!
❤️
It was a fun evening!
I finally gave it a go on my own and was fine. And check - did something scary for my resolutions. ✔️ I don’t even care that being scared of ice skating is lame. This is my victory arms but I am not taking my eyes off this ice pose.
After, we met up for our first Giving Machine experience.
We had watched the Times Square video and so it was fun to see one in person! We looked through all our options and decided a baby goat was the way to go.
When we watched the video I thought we’d get to keep the little card, but they just go to the bottom of the machine. But there’s our cute baby goat! One of my fav sayings is “But for the grace of God go I, and being at a giving machine is a great reminder of how very very blessed we are.
After our rainy giving machine experience we headed to sonic for milkshakes before heading home. We wished we could have gone down to the Rays for a longer visit but with the great flood Matt didn’t want to take another day off work.
Incidentally, the day after Christmas is a terrible day to travel even 2 hours and we hit a ton of traffic.
I have not been ice skating since Matt and I were dating 19 years ago. I was nervous as heck that I’d fall and break something. #oldlady
The girls were great, got right out there and went for it. Frankie was skating backwards and doing twirls, sweet adi skated with me a lot because for the first hour I wanted to hold a hand, and Delaney fell like 20 times, but! she kept getting back up!
❤️
It was a fun evening!
I finally gave it a go on my own and was fine. And check - did something scary for my resolutions. ✔️ I don’t even care that being scared of ice skating is lame. This is my victory arms but I am not taking my eyes off this ice pose.
After, we met up for our first Giving Machine experience.
We had watched the Times Square video and so it was fun to see one in person! We looked through all our options and decided a baby goat was the way to go.
When we watched the video I thought we’d get to keep the little card, but they just go to the bottom of the machine. But there’s our cute baby goat! One of my fav sayings is “But for the grace of God go I, and being at a giving machine is a great reminder of how very very blessed we are.
After our rainy giving machine experience we headed to sonic for milkshakes before heading home. We wished we could have gone down to the Rays for a longer visit but with the great flood Matt didn’t want to take another day off work.
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