Afternoon with Liz
Saturday afternoon, I met my friend Liz for a relaxing afternoon of eating and chatting at The Nelson Creamery. It's always great to catch up with Liz. I don't know what I'd do without the amazing women in my life who come along side me in parenting, marriage, and work-life balance. I am so grateful!
Easter Celebrations
We had a full weekend of Easter fun beginning with an Easter Egg Hunt at Nora's school on Saturday morning. It had rained pretty hard the night before, so they decided to hold it inside, but she still had a blast.
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| Ready to hunt |
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| Err, maybe not quite ready to hunt;) |
The kids got lots of time to play with Picker cousins between Saturday and Sunday and the weather was great for them to play outside too! Saturday night, Papa and Gma kept the kids so Greg, Cally, Brent, and I could go out for a bit. We ran into some old friends from high school and reminisced and caught up on life. It was a great impromptu meeting:)
We spent Easter Sunday at Brent's parents, grilling out, egg/basket hunting, and hanging out. The story behind the pics below: I asked Cally to take a pic of Brent and I...Brent dragged his feet as usual, saying he was 'busy"...when he was finally "ready," Cally gave him sass back (which he needs) and said she was too busy to take a pic...our selfies below were the result. He deserves my sass in the first pic too;)
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| Egg hunting |
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| Egg hunting |
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| Nora with, quite possibly her favorite person, Mekhi He was giving her an egg he had found. He's so sweet! |
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| Lady egg hunters |
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| All of the egg hunters Annie was inside...getting a little old for egg hunts |
An added perk to a fun-filled Easter weekend was having Monday off with the kids! Stewartville Schools had a four day weekend for Easter so I joined the kids:)
Growing Up
I'm not entirely sure this was a favorite for the week, but it was certainly impactful. In the past week, Luke had a human development (aka puberty) talk at school AND parents had a meeting to learn more about the 5th graders starting middle school next year. Double whammy! We had some good discussions with Luke about the puberty talk and explained more about the girl side of things (they separated boys and girls for the talk). Lots to take in for an 11 year old boy! Then, this week, I went to the meeting to learn more about middle school in Stewartville. It was a very helpful meeting, especially being new to town. As I type this, I realize that I've handled this better than I would have expected. When Luke was getting ready to start kindergarten, I was very anxious and sad about the transition. But, I really don't feel much of either going into middle school. It's hard to swallow that he's entering the middle school/high school (all in the same building in Stewartville)...the last school he'll be in until he graduates, but I also know he's a great student and I think there might be things he enjoys even more about middle school than intermediate school. Only time will tell, but it's nice to learn some details about the school, schedule, etc to mentally prepare ourselves.
Gymnastics/Soccer
Our spring sports schedule kicked off this week too. Luke started soccer practice and Nora started her first gymnastics class! Luke plays soccer in town on a 4-6th grade team and gets to have two of our neighbors on his team so he's pretty excited:) Nora's class is actually a parent/child class so I get to help spotting and lifting her on the beams/bars. She liked the first class and is excited to go back. I'm interested to see if this is something she'd like to do in a class with me as she gets bigger (logistically, they need parents for the preschoolers...the teacher can't hold every kid for every activity:)).
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| Ready for her first gymnastics class |
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| Ready for our class together! |
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