My kids do a lot of wonderful, helpful things throughout the year so on Mother's Day I like to keep it pretty low key. The kids usually make me a card and some sort of dessert. They'll do any chores that I needed to do that day, mostly animal chores that pop up, like cleaning a trough out or moving hay. The rest of the time we just play games and watch TV. I don't give myself a whole lot of down time so sometimes it's hard to just relax all day! I have to say that just sitting around all day makes me feel more tired than doing stuff all day. I have no idea why it is like that, but inevitably it is. Whenever I get sick as soon as I feel able enough, I start moving around. Now, I'll start moving around at less than half of my normal rate, but within a few days I am usually back to feeling pretty normal. We had been so busy lately that it was really nice to have a day where everyone was home; we had nothing we had to do; and everyone was able to relax. I did prep some cinnamon rolls from my Brenda Gantt cookbook the night before and they turned out good, but I think next time I will double the amount of cinnamon filling and make them gluten free -I was so sick, as I get older the gluten tolerance keeps going down. L has to eat gluten free too. She is way more strict with her diet than I am. She hardly ever cheats even we are staying home. The cream cheese icing recipe Brenda uses is probably the best I have ever had.
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| A made a sweet card🥰 |
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| L, my little baker, made some wonderful zucchini chocolate cupcakes. They were delicious!💗 |
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| She included a sweet message.☺️ |
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| T apparently was unaware it was Mother's Day so not to feel out done he made a card too.😂 |
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| These were so good! |
Allstate has FINALLY quite being stupid. It took over 2 months and 3 inspections before we finally broke them and they approved my entire roof, instead of the 82% they originally wanted. I still won't renew with them. I strongly urge everyone to avoid Allstate altogether. The hassle and run around is NOT worth any savings you might get. I promise. Now, we get to pick our roof color and schedule the install, which is not fun, but it should only take a few days.
We are down to our very last week of school and then L is officially done with highschool. She is already accepted to Blinn College, got a couple thousand dollar grant to get started, and is ready to enroll in her fall classes. I am very proud of her. She seems a little more lost than A was going into college, but she is getting really excited now about going. She even has found a camera she wants to get from Walmart for about $500. It has several things she needs and she did a lot of research on a good student camera and this one was highly recommended. She is also going to need a laptop that is not a Chromebook. For some reason, the Chromebooks won't work with the Photography software.
While I have been loving my time away from basketball, T has missed it. Open gym starts in June on Tuesdays and he can't wait! This is where his team and future teammates go to keep their skills up during the break, even though half of them play a summer league anyway. I could not imagine keeping a basketball schedule year round! Nope, no thank you! That's not for me! I need some downtime to prepare for the craziness of basketball season. It's intense!
A is loving her work. It's nice she waited to start working until she was an already licensed veterinarian assistant. She got to skip the first couple of levels of grunt work! She has already had three raises since she started. She is the only person I know that has no idea how much they make and really doesn't care since she has to have the job to fulfill the work requirements for her Vet Tech license. I think she graduates next spring. She just found out yesterday that her summer vacation was cut short. She thought she had until June 5 when summer school starts, but it turns out her program started on this past Monday.😂 Needless to say, she was very disappointed!
D is doing well. He has been working like crazy to catch up on all his training and taking some overtime gigs to pay for L's hospital bill. I don't know if I mentioned it, but L hit her head really hard on a pole at the park and we went to the urgent care to see if she had a concussion, but they didn't have the equipment there for a CT scan so they sent use to the emergency room. 5 hours in the waiting room, some Benadryl and ibuprofen, and CT scan ( by far the cheapest thing, go figure) was about $9000. What is wrong with our healthcare system? Why should people have decide whether or not they can afford emergency care? The system is VERY broken. We have really good insurance so our portion is about $2200, but that is still super expensive. The quality of her care was NOT worth $9000.
Have a wonderful week 🤗
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| You just can't beat Mom at checkers! None of my family has yet. |
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