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The Bunch Have A Wonderfully Quiet Week

 

Yep, the blue headed lion is back! At least now she is only chewing up her  feet🐾 However, it still drives us CRAZY, just slightly less crazy than it was.

Ahhhh. What a difference a week makes! This week there were no basketball games and only two practices. In fact, the kids and I didn't even leave the house for three days! We just enjoyed a nice relaxing pace and a lot of quiet time. We got caught up on school that we had not been able to finish last week due to the craziness of basketball and T even started reading the Lord of the Ring.

 I decided that since our youngest chickens are now three years old and the rest are 6 years old and since as they age egg output declines, plus with eggs prices being so high that it just makes sense for us to get more chicks. I had hoped to get them this weekend so that by June they would be laying, but apparently this year no one has chicks yet so I guess we will get more in February and get more eggs by July. The kids were sad. They had been picking out names on the way to the farm store. This was the first year since we got chickens that for over two months we had NO EGGS this winter. I was shocked at having to spend $7 for a dz eggs! Thank goodness they are starting to lay again now because spending $50 a month for eggs is ridiculous. It is so much cheaper to just buy feed. 

Noelle literally slept in this tiny box for hours. Our cat is so weird.

This next week shouldn't be too bad. We have two games and only one practice. However, the week after that is a THREE day tournament in Mansfield, which is not close to us. Last year we had a game that ended at 9 pm, we made it home around 10:45pm, and then had to be up and ready by 6:00am, in order to be at the first game by 7:30am. It was rough and I really hope that doesn't happen ths year! T's team is having a great season though and have only lost 5 games. Two of the five we played up against JV teams and one of those was the game where the refs were just so bias it wasn't even funny. In fact, that team is one of our games for this week and I am just sending D to take him because I can't deal with that again. It was infuriating! The other two we just straight up had a bad night and deserved to lose.

L has been getting ideas of what she would like to go to college/trade school to do and Texas has a great website to help kids understand what certain jobs make and how much your standard of living costs. The website is called (funnily enough) texasrealitycheck.com. Before she took these quizzes, everything was "that sounds boring" or " that's not what I want to do". She was only thinking of the work NOT how much earning potential the job had. This website made her more aware of the cost of living and has her at least entertaining ideas that she might not love, but could tolerate enough to make a living doing. After initially saying that she would never be a nurse, we have now narrowed down the field to , of course, nurse and also graphic designer. 🤷 

L has been working on getting her middle as splits for years and FINALLY did it this week! She was so excited.

This week was the first time L has wanted to do Aerial since "the incident". I did notice she was WAY lower than she normally is. I don't blame her for being a little nervous.


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