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I tried really hard this week to think of interesting Takes. But all I've had going through my head this week is:
Spring sports has started, bringing our family total activity count to:
- Soccer (3 days a week)
- Track (5 days a week)
- Gymnastics (4 days a week, half-hour away)
- 2 piano lessons and a voice lesson (once a week)
- weekly youth activities at church
My 14-year-old also needs rides to and from her after-school job, plus she sure does make a lot of plans for someone who can't drive. The 17-year-old helps out a ton, but even then... it's a lot.
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Look at this cute little jade plant I got for free on a local Buy Nothing Facebook group. One of our houseplants died a slow and agonizing death over the winter, and I'm ready to try again.
I think its predecessor died from lack of light, so now I'm looking at different options for a grow light. Someone online said they use a bug zapper, so I went to look at it out of curiosity and oh, the product image... the whole family is literally lined up with popcorn to watch the bugs die!
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| Who needs movie night when you can count the electrocuted mosquitoes? |
When the stock photo of this happy family was taken, this is probably not the way the photographer thought it would be used.
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A place near me has free concerts occasionally, and this week they had an Irish trio playing traditional music. It's something different and interesting, and it's free, so I was there. Phillip was working from home that day and used his lunch break to come with me.
The performers kept saying "Now we're going to play a jig" and "Now we're going to play a reel" as if that was a distinction I should already know, so I looked it up surreptitiously during the concert and that was my educational nugget for the day.
A jig is in 6/8 time, so if you're listening to a jig you can say "pineapple, pineapple" to the music. And a reel is in 4/4 or 2/4, so if it's a reel you can say "watermelon, watermelon." And if you don't read music and have no clue what I'm talking about, you can ignore everything I said and just enjoy the Celtic fiddling. It's fun.
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While out running errands, I thought of Phillip and send him a quick text that said, "Thanks for being my man."
A few minutes later a friend texted me about throwing a bunch of stuff away so I wrote back "So they finally brought the dumpster?" But I accidentally sent it to Phillip since I was just texting him.
I explained I'd sent it to the wrong person and he asked, "so who is your real man?"
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I saw this in the checkout line at the grocery store and it made me laugh.
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| Normal person tip: when scheduling your normal day, don't forget to leave time for your photoshoot with People magazine. |
Not sure who this is, but... who's going to tell her?
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My kids always get sunburned on the first nice day of spring where they have a soccer game or some extended outdoor activity. It always takes me by surprise, mostly because I'm too busy packing away their winter coats to remind them to start putting on sunscreen.
Well, I'm very proud to report that the 12-year-old had his first soccer game, and he didn't come home burnt! We remembered the sunscreen this time.
But that was only because his sister got sunburned at her first track meet earlier in the week.
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With the weather getting nicer we're about to bring out our porch swing, but first we want to re-do the porch floor. We've had the supplies sitting in Phillip's workshop since last fall, and he decided that this was the week.
He pried off all the old boards on Tuesday, and then things got really busy and he won't have time to work on it again until Saturday. So this has been the welcoming facade of our home all week:
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An effective alternative to one of those novelty door mats that say "GO AWAY." |
The forsythia blooms on the wreath go with the yellow caution tape, though, so I think it still looks pretty put together.
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