-This month started with Larry working at home again (which we're big time celebrating)! Luckily, he had one more Friday off so we squeezed in vet appointments. Unfortunately, this turned into such a nightmare! I wanted to get Charlie in to get him scheduled for his neutering, but decided to schedule for all the cats just as a checkup. The appointments were fine enough (all cats got a good bill of health), but afterwards they started fighting like crazy. We've been working on getting them used to each other again, but Charlie and Minnie literally tear each other apart so we've had to keep a VERY close eye on them and now Charlie and Otto sleep in the basement (hopefully once he gets fixed things will get better). I do sleep on the couch on Thursday and Friday nights so Minnie can have the master room just her and Larry and then the boys can have a night not in the basement, but this is definitely not ideal and I REALLY hope things get better soon. If Charlie wasn't SO good with the kids and they didn't love him I'd honestly think of finding him a new home, sad as it is to say. Wish us luck!
-While the Home Depot kids workshop hasn't worked out as much as we'd like, the Lowe's ones have been a HUGE hit so far. We did the first one this month (a chalkboard message board) and the kids LOVED building it and say they want to do more of them. I just love that they have you register for it and actually make sure they hold a kit for you.
-I've been really enjoying finding time for my puzzles and reading more. I think I've done like 5 puzzles now and I'm in my 4th book. I know it's not a lot compared to others, but still an accomplishment for me. I've been working on my smaller puzzles to start with and I've been doing good with not looking at the boxes (which is a huge feat for me). It's been nice for my brain to get the "exercise".
-In preparation for our Disney trip, I made a list of movies to watch that the park either has rides for or experiences of and we've been watching one of those each week. It is SO much better watching with the kids for their first time. I have never been a huge fan of Snow White or Alice in Wonderland, but watching them with the kids I actually, legit enjoyed the movies. It's been so much fun watching them through their eyes. We also watched one of the newer Haunted Mansion movies and it was SO good (highly recommend it!), so that's been good too. It's definitely getting us all even more excited for the trip.
-For a fun Family Date idea we decided to take the kids to Tepanyaki for dinner one night. It was a lot of fun and I forget how good the food was. Unfortunately, it was a bit expensive, Lucy was scared, and the kids hardly ate anything, but they did enjoy the show and we had lots of leftovers especially with the Superbowl food haha)
-My Grandma has alzheimers and had to be put into a memory care center last month so I decided since I had President's Day off we should go visit her. Mom took the day off too so she could show us what it's all about and seeing her was so nice. I've never been to one of those places so I wasn't sure what to expect, but everyone LOVED seeing the girls (I kept Pierce behind with Larry) so they were all over them. We got to see Grandma's room and see good pictures from a long time ago. It was a quick visit and we went to lunch at Arctic Circle after so the girls could play for a bit. While I was sad to think of her being in one of these places, it was actually really nice and the food smelled amazing so I know she's in good hands.
-We had to take the van in for some recall updates and a burnt out light replacement. I love car maintenance appointments because I know I get to read a bunch and have a quiet couple hours haha. I was even able to take our donation stuff to Savers on my way up and grabbed some lunch from Wendy's as well. I was able to read like 5 chapters of my book and it was a nice little break.
-I've been experimenting with some cleaning routines and what makes it easier and sense for our house as well as is efficient and doesn't make me feel like I'm losing time with kids. This past Sunday I was cleaning our upstairs and Larry mentioned we should go get some ice cream after dinner and I thought we should totally do treats on Sunday nights. We all pitch in with cleaning and to have a treat together would be such a great addition. I'm very happy to add that to our weekly routine (plus it incentivizes us to make sure we get our cleaning done...no cleaning, no treat haha).
-So after I watched that episode of Modern Family where they take Leap Day off (because it's an extra 24 hours you're gifted, why spend it at work?) I totally knew I wanted to start doing that. Take the day off and make use of the extra hours we get. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to do anything too fun because I had to get ready for our Phoenix trip (post to come) so today is spent doing things we'd normally get done on Sundays as well as some fingerprinting errand for possible field trip chaperoning in the future. There wasn't really anything I could do about what needed to be done this time, but I am glad to have it off work and get things done that need to be done and I look forward to future ones and making them fun.
-Silly kiddo pics:
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