It is Holy Week. I am contemplating a more substantial post,
but I thought it might be good to give a run-down of what’s been going on
around our house. Kind of a little get-back-into-the-groove thing…
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| I did have a few of these... |
It did not kill me to deactivate Facebook (though I often
joked, via text, with friends that it was indeed “killing me.”)
I did color my hair – a strawberry blonde hue. I’ll be going
back in a few weeks and I think I’ll have her take it a little darker because
after about 3 weeks, it was difficult to see much difference anymore.
I read four books – all fiction, none religious.
I put on my size 6 work pants for the first time since 2008
(the dry cleaner receipt taped to the plastic overlay was from February 2008).
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| Crazy |
Craig and I competed in our first Crossfit Games Open and it
was fun. I did pretty well for someone who couldn’t do all the “skills”
required. I ended up #222 out of 355 Masters Women 40-44 in my region (North
Central). And the final workout was a real bugger, but I completed it, Rx and
everything.
I also achieved a “skill” at Crossfit. I can touch my toes
to the bar! When I think about how almost a year ago, I could hardly raise my
knees up even half the way to my knees, I’m just so excited that I get my toes
up to the bar now. Of course, I have to do some kipping swings to achieve this,
but that’s one of the steps on the way to just lifting a person’s toes from a
standstill and touching the bar. Still – toes-to-bar is still toes-to-bar!
I mostly stayed on track with Weight Watchers, although, I’m
going to take a “no-weigh-pass” day this week because I had a terrible weekend,
food-wise. And I know it was terrible and I know what the scale will look like
and I just don’t want to see it. But I will still attend my meeting.
Sarah earned the “A” Honor roll for the second straight
quarter. Yes. I’m proud. Oh, and she won 5th place in a local essay
contest and her essay was sent to State competition. Then she found out she got
4th place at State and the essay is now being judged in a National
competition. I have been so happy for her as she’s blossomed this year with her
writing. And, she grew some more, got stronger some more and now has a pretty
decent serve going in volleyball. I really love to watch her play.
Dani earned her first individual ribbon at a swim meet. It
was 6th place and it was for 50 Backstroke. I love to watch her
swim.
She also read all kinds of great books and surpassed her Accelerated
Reading goal (again) for the quarter. She also continues to practice her guitar
(we had to give up lessons for awhile) on her own and try to get better.
Helen routinely scored 29’s and 30’s on her Math “Mad
Minutes.” This was something she needed to master as the math starts getting a
little harder when Multiplication/Division starts. She also routinely scored
high on spelling tests. Unfortunately, I don’t think she likes reading nearly
as much as her older sisters and it’s a struggle for her to be motivated in
that regard. I will have to knuckle down with her this summer, I think.
Dominic attended “Kindergarten Roundup” and I got him
registered for Kindergarten next year. It is crazy how it feels that four of my
five children will be in “real” school next year. There were three weekends in
a row that Dominic attended birthday parties for children in his class. ‘Tis
the season, I suppose. He also discovered the movie, “The Adventures of Shark
Boy and Lava Girl.” And he has a (girl) friend in preschool with him that likes
to play “Shark Boy and Lava Girl” with him. This tickles me because my Sarah –
when she was in preschool – had a little (boy)friend who would play “Shark Boy
and Lava Girl” with her. They are 7 ½ years apart (exactly) and they enjoy the
same movie and pretend play and each found a friend who did, too. I think that
is kind of cool.
Vincent potty trained. And it took all of, like, 2 weeks
(maybe)! I knew he was ready. He just
had to decide to do it. And I found the right motivation, finally. I’ll save
that for a write-up on the blog soon. J
He also started sitting…for an hour at a time sometimes!!...and playing with
Helen’s dollhouse. When I get a chance to stand outside the room and listen, I
get quite an insight into how he views the goings-on at our house. Very cute.
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| Vincent playing with the dollhouse |
In light of the potty-training success...my boys' now have a "big boy" room which means there is no baby paraphernilia in there anymore.
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| Bye-bye changing table -- hello book shelves and big boy toys! |
The weather finally made a serious attempt at improvement.
Although, the temps dipped today and made me weary. But we had a string of
several days in a row with 60’s, 70’s, sunshine, etc. We’re getting there!!
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| Vincent is cool |
Now Holy Week is upon us. I am going to attempt to make it
to services at Church Thursday and Friday. I am not sure if I’m brave enough to
attempt the Vigil Mass with the kids by myself. I have a feeling I have at
least one more year before I’ll try that, maybe two. Vincent is not reliable on
the behavior. Although, Palm Sunday Mass was the first time in about a month we’d
had to take him to the back. We’ll get there eventually.
I have to admit, it wasn’t a huge void in my life to
eliminate blogging for a few weeks. I thought I’d be going crazy, but I didn’t.
I want to update the pictures in my header and stuff, but I didn’t even work on
that. I took some notes a few times when I thought, “That might be a good thing
to write about sometime…” I did check in on a couple of blogs, just to see what
they were writing about on particular days. Some I missed more than others. But
I guess that’s just the way of it, isn’t it? There are some friends we hold
closer than others. So, probably there are some blogs we make sure we check in
on during these times.
God bless your Holy Week!
