Louisiana’s “second winter” arrived (“almost, but not quite Spring” will be here next week, though, so it won’t last long), so cat snuggles this morning. Pretzel 🐈 was appreciative.
Some impromptu extra “school” time outdoors this afternoon: Finding tracks and identifying them 🦝 + picking dandelions, etc. and watching a timelapse video of how they morph from bloom to seed.
Cute lil’ hedgey Valentines Ro gave to co-op pals this week. She also made another whole set. And B made his own set with personalized pictures on each one. ❤️
My 5 year old daughter gave my 8 year old son a bag of coffee for Valentine’s Day, and I’m pretty sure B was happier about the coffee than the LEGO we got him (though he appreciated that too).
Letting my kids bake some cookies on their own. I feel both slightly nervous, but also really proud of them on multiple levels. They’re so excited. And I am too.
I’ve so enjoyed cuddling up in bed every other night with my bud and reading two chapters of (our 1970 thrifted edition of) The Chronicles of Narnia series. We finished The Silver Chair last night.
Tried a new to me coffee this morning.
Another dinner photo 😌
Duck fat fries. Couldn’t set them on the table before little hands started reaching for them. 💛
What’s for dinner: Homemade red beans & rice with homemade cornbread and homemade ginger-ale-ish lemonade ✔️
Made a quick stop for some coffee in Texarkana (Nash), TX. Local Habit. Got The Hive, which is a honey, cinnamon, and vanilla latte. It was really good.
Rowyn learned the word, “twinge,” a couple of weeks ago. She used it correctly at first. But since, she’s had trouble remembering it exactly and come out with “plinge” and “pidge” instead. And it’s just really cute.
Pretty sure I’m gonna be sore from building a snowman today.
A most unusual (and really cold) day in South Louisiana.
I realized this evening that I’ve been dating everything 2024. Pretty sure I had yet to actually write or type 2025 until a couple hours ago.
My babies worked SO hard yesterday getting ready for a really big garage sale at our church. Proud of them.
More trampoline this afternoon. So, I grabbed the school books (upon their request, which I thought was a great one) and met them out there.
The kids sort of rediscovered the trampoline on Saturday. And, today, they spent nearly 3 hours on it. Not even kind of exaggerating.
I jumped with them a bit, but also did all sorts of other things in the yard because it was such a nice day. Cloudy-ish and ever so slightly chilly.
Truth.
We’ve been on a Painterland Sisters skyr yogurt kick over here. My favorite is Blueberry Lemon. Ro’s is Savannah’s Peach. And B’s is Vanilla.
Trampoline time today. It had been a while.
My kids spent a large chunk of the day playing with Jenga blocks. They have 3 sets (games) each. The name brand Jenga game blocks are the best and most inexpensive (especially when you get them 50% off in Nov/Dec) unit blocks I’ve found. Soooooo many ways to use them besides just playing a fun game.