Month: February 2024
I sometimes place my camera on the floor besides my desk until I get the pictures off my memory card. Normally I don’t put the camera beside my desk until late at night when I am working on my computer and all the kids are in bed. Today I was working on pictures while the kids were in school and then didn’t think to pick the camera back up. At some point, Ben came to talk to me at my desk and had a run-in with my camera.
I have a protective lens for all of my lenses. Thank goodness that is what cracked and not the actual lens.
Ben absolutely loves the sword Kaitlyn brought him from Disney. It has been played with by every person in this house. Tonight I decided to introduce him to the movie behind “Jack Sparrow.” Kaitlyn assured me that she wouldn’t be bothered by the graphics (I did warn her about the skeletons). The littles loved the movie. They watched, danced, and fought swords. It was adorable.
The littles were awake and sitting in the living room just waiting when I came downstairs at 7 am. They quickly decided to build a fort and bring their stuffed animals to visit.
We continued with a lazy morning until lunchtime. Then I got everyone out the door and to the post office in time for our passport appointment. We finally decided to bite the bullet in terms of paperwork and get the kids their passports. For the most part everyone was pretty well behaved and things moved pretty quickly. Alex is the one that held us up. His picture had to be taken over and over and over to meet the requirements. Poor Alex and his issues with low light and flashes. They finally got a good one!
Then we headed back to the house for some time with Granny and Pop.
I can’t believe we now have two teenagers in the house! Teague turns 13 today. It’s probably the first child birthday where I barely saw the birthday child. Teague had his friends spend the night last night and those boys didn’t stop until almost 6 am this morning. (I know this because they were also very loud.) Traditionally, sleepovers happen on our third floor. Then the rest of the family lives on the other two floors. I woke up this morning, a little grumpy with little sleep, stumbled downstairs and found two boys asleep on my living room couches. I managed to keep everyone quiet until they woke up around 10, but it was not fun.
The boys left around 1 pm. I took Ben, Teague, and Alex out for a sushi lunch. Then Teague got home and went back to bed. I didn’t see him again till we woke him up for dinner, cake, and presents. I don’t think I have ever taken so few pictures on a birthday before!
It occurred to me recently that Ben has never been to Build-A-Bear. Then we were planning out this week and I realized Ben wouldn’t be able to attend the evening fun at Apex with Teague and his friends. Taking him for a one-on-one trip this morning seemed like perfect timing. Ben had a lot of fun going through all the animals and finally chose Longhorn. I let him choose one outfit and Ben picked a Marvel outfit (from Black Panther) because it had a spear. Definitely a successful trip!
Alex finally decided to make bread! He followed the directions, got frustrated with the measurements (grams instead of cups), but did a great job. I was gone tonight when the bread was finally finished. I did get a text telling me it was good.
Then I got home from running kids around and was told Alex got a piece, Dad got a piece, and Pepper helped herself to the rest of the bread. (Typical Pepper). Alex did find a small part that Pepper hadn’t been able to reach that I could try. It was yummy but I didn’t get any pictures of the finished bread.
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