Good mid morning. It has been a non-stop start to the day. We woke up late…6:20a.m. The Mister and Uncle Josh headed off to the Gym while the boys and I had breakfast, got dressed, combed our hair etc. I packed lunches, loaded up backpacks and the boys and I hopped on our bikes for a ride to school. Â The air was much cooler than we thought, so about three blocks from the house our hands were burning from the cold. We stopped in order for the youngest to don his hoodie and pull the sleeves over his hands. Â The oldest was telling us to hurry up thinking we would be late…OH MY!!! In his fourth grade class his teacher..amazing woman that she is…gives the children “Golden Tickets” for good behavior, good deeds and all around helpfulness. Our guy has the most this year…160 golden tickets. Â He has earned most of them, but creatively thought of some things he could make for his buddies and charge tickets for them. Two examples of these are an origami Darth Vader and an origami Yoda each costing 5 tickets. One of his friends lost his Yoda and offered double for another. Supply and demand at it’s finest. Of course the boys and I Â made it to school with plenty of time to spare. Â I had a frigid uphill ride home and then I was off to give Bunkie his shot.
LOL is under the weather. When I got there she was still in bed and had been up most of the night sick. Â She was so cold that she was shaking. Â I took her temp and it was fine, gave the dog his shot (All by myself..very scary) and then put extra covers on her and headed home for a shower. I’ll check on her this afternoon. She doesn’t want me to get to close in fear that I may catch what she has….I absolutely will not!!
After showering and drying my new, lovely, long locks I made my way to school to volunteer in the second grade class for an hour. I worked on math flash cards with the kiddos and tested for math placement groups. I really enjoy those little ones. I went out to the Cross Country field when I was done and met Uncle J and my guy at the Start/Finish line of the Cross Country race track. Â The girls were just finishing up when I arrived and the boys were cheering them all on.
The boys were up next and oh boy was our guy excited. Â He ran a great race with a good pace finishing in 8 minutes 31 seconds. I don’t think I could run a mile in that time. He placed 2nd in his class…his friend Vinnie placed 1st and our guy was 4th overall. He congratulated all of his buddies and gave me a hug. Oh, happy times for mommy. I’ll be back at school at 1:00p.m. for the youngest’s race….there is some heavy competition in that 2nd grade class. Our guy has a good time while he runs. He is always grinning and laughing the whole time. Very sweet. Â There are some really competitive aggressive kids in class, but our munchkin still just wants to have fun. Â Hurray!!
I’m off to pick up my paycheck and then back to school for race #2.
I really appreciate and love to be available to watch our boys grow. Â The days go by so fast and the boys are maturing so quickly that I am making an effort to be mindful to live in the moment with them, so I may enjoy every second. My parents weren’t joking when they said we grow up to fast….so SLOW DOWN and enjoy life.:-)
Love to you all and God Bless,
LLF