Monday, September 23
Monday is typically the day
that we don’t have baseball, and we also don’t ever have ballet or any other
activities that day, so it’s usually my main gym day. I like to get the week started out on the
right foot and I also like to work out on Mondays to burn off all of the beer
and junk food from the weekend. Ha! After our crazy weekend last weekend I was on
the struggle bus Monday morning, mostly from lack of sleep, so I struggled a
little during my workout. It wasn’t my
best work, but I got it in!
The rest of the day was
spent getting caught up from being gone all weekend and then relaxing all
evening.
Tuesday, September 24
I had a lunch date on
Tuesday with one of my oldest coworkers.
He was one of the very first people I ever met when I started my old job
and he and I have been close ever since.
I hadn’t seen him in a couple of months so it was nice to grab pizza
with him at our usual place and get caught up.
He always fills me in on everything I’ve been missing since I left and
most of the time it makes me thankful I’m no longer there. Haha.
I sure don’t miss the job, but I do miss seeing him and some of my other
coworkers every day. We were all so
close for so long so it’s still weird not seeing them every day, even two years
later. Which also brings me to… how have
I been gone for almost two whole years?!
I swear, some days I wake up in the morning still thinking I have to go
to work.
Jacob had baseball practice
Tuesday evening, and B took him so I could cook and have dinner ready when they
got home. All of our primetime TV shows
started this week and we kicked them off with This is Us on Tuesday
evening!!!! Did y’all see it? I was intrigued the entire time and I’m
excited to see where this season is going to go.
Wednesday, September 25
Wednesday, Olivia had her
quarterly thyroid check-up. If you’re
new around here, here’s a quick history on that – in March 2018 we noticed a
lump in her throat so we took her straight to the doc. Our pediatrician referred us to an ENT doctor
and they ended up having to put her to sleep to do a needle biopsy because the
lump was on her thyroid. It turned out
to be a benign cyst (thank God), but after they drained it, it came right back
within two weeks. The doc was worried
that it came back so quickly, and we are now having to monitor it quarterly via
ultrasound. They’ll eventually have to
do surgery to remove the part of her thyroid that it’s attached to but we are
trying to avoid that until she’s a teenager as removing part of her thyroid
could affect her growth and development.
However, if it continues to grow as it has for the last year and a half
since it popped up, they may have to remove it earlier. And that’s why we’re monitoring it so
frequently now… to make sure that it doesn’t continue to grow. If it gets too big it could block her
windpipe and make it hard for her to swallow and breathe so we cannot let it
get to that point. It’s scary to even
think about.
Fortunately, she had a great
appointment, and after the doc measured it via ultrasound, he announced that
it’s officially stable (meaning it hasn’t grown in size since her last
appointment)!!!! Woo hoo! He said he now feels comfortable moving her
to semi-annual appointments instead of the usual quarterly appointments so that
was good news as well. Thank you to
everyone who has kept our sweet girl in your prayers. Please continue to pray that it doesn’t grow
in size and that it remains non-cancerous.
After Olivia’s appointment,
I rushed straight to the Mexican restaurant to meet my girlfriends to celebrate
our friend, April’s, birthday. We hadn’t
had a girls dinner in quite a while so it was long overdue and much
needed. I love my girl time!
Wednesday was also National
Daughters Day, so I jumped on the bandwagon and posted a picture of Olivia on
Facebook and Instagram to commemorate the day.
Naturally, I went down the rabbit hole of old photos and I had the best
time reminiscing and looking at old pictures of my sweet girl. I ultimately chose this picture, mostly
because those sunglasses were just so darn precious, and I swear, this makes me
want 18 more babies. I could just eat
her. <3
Thursday, September 26
Thursday was another gym day
– this time my workout looked a bit better ;o) – and the rest of the day was
spent running errands and getting things done.
Olivia has ballet every Thursday at 3:45 this school year, so we headed
there straight after school, and then we were able to spend a nice long evening
at home. We’re still catching up on America
And on another note, why oh
why are we still dealing with these kinds of temps?! We broke a record on Thursday. It ended up getting up to 100 degrees. Sigh.
Friday, September 27
Friday was another errands
day. Whew, I had so many errands! I also finally got my flu shot, and right
after the kids got out of school, I took them to get theirs as well. Jacob is a boss when it comes to shots so it
didn’t phase him in the least, but bless Olivia… she was terrified. I purposely didn’t tell her about it that
morning because I didn’t want it to give her anxiety at school all day, and
after seeing how she reacted when I told her after school I’m SO GLAD I
didn’t. She was a hot mess. She cried all the way to the doctor and cried
all through check-in. We got seated and
she climbed up in my lap and cried and cried some more. After about 10 minutes she started going into
full panic-mode and I then realized – DUH, OILS! We don’t have to deal with tantrums very
often anymore with our littles and they don’t ever have anxiety, so I guess
that’s why it didn’t occur to me sooner to oil her up.
Well friends, I pulled out
my “Unicorn” roller (a mixture of oils that can help with anxiety and stress,
and also help with courage and bravery) and I kid y’all not, within 30 seconds of me swiping her wrists and heart and her breathing the scent directly from
the bottle, she was totally calm. In
fact, she was so calm, that she finally started answering all of my questions
about her day at school, and then she got down from my lap and went to play
with the toys in the waiting room.
#OILSFORTHEWIN!!!!
A bit later when we finally
got back to our room and the nurse came in with the needles, she was back to
freaking out again. Jacob hopped right
up on the table to show her how it was done, but then when it was Olivia’s turn
she screamed bloody murder and I had to hold her down. The nurse did it so quickly that Olivia
didn’t even realize she had done it, and Olivia looked shocked when we told her
it was over. Jacob then climbed back up
on the table with Olivia and he put his arms around her to comfort her. And then I melted into a puddle. They both got lollipops from the front desk
as their consolation prizes, and then on the way out Olivia told me all
nonchalantly, “I didn’t even feel that shot.”
Face palm.
By the time we got home, she'd made a full recovery, and she colored at the table in her new clip-on starfish earrings from the prize box while singing along to Old Town Road. Can't make this stuff up!
Friday evening our friends
Randi and Donnie invited us over to their house to hang out for the evening. The kids got to feed and play with their
goats and play outside while all of us adults enjoyed a few cocktails, and then
we were sent inside by an impending thunderstorm that never ended up
hitting. The rest of the evening was
spent inside eating a yummy dinner that Randi cooked and hanging out while the
kiddos played.
Saturday, September 28
Saturday we were up for
homemade waffles and College GameDay and then B and Jacob headed out for
haircuts while Olivia tagged along.
Since I had the house to myself and no place to be, I used the
opportunity to knock out some house chores – sweeping, mopping, vacuuming,
dusting, cleaning toilets, and scrubbing countertops – and I ended up getting
the whole house shiny and clean.
I made some grilled cheese
sandwiches for lunch and then the rest of the afternoon was spent getting the
rest of my photographed clothes listed on Poshmark and watching football. We headed to mass at 5:30 like we always do
and about halfway through it started pouring outside… a MUCH NEEDED rain after
weeks and weeks of drought and 100+ degree temps. It was such a welcome sound to hear that rain
pitter-pattering and the thunder rolling.
We need more of that right now!
After church we headed to
one of our favorite little pubs down the street for some beers and bar
food. And since Dairy Queen only has the
pumpkin pie blizzard for a couple of months out of the year, yes, we stopped
and grabbed some of those on the way home.
;o)
And Saturday was National Sons Day so I couldn't let the day go without posting a throwback picture of my munchie. My gosh, I miss him being that small.
Sunday, September 29
My mother-in-law and step
father-in-law didn’t cook on Sunday again, so the entire day was wide open
until B’s tennis match at 2:30. We ended
up being lazy at home all morning and then we stepped out to grab Chipotle for
lunch. After lunch we took the kids to
the playground to run around for a bit, but after 20 minutes or so they both
came over saying it was too hot and they wanted to go. You know
it’s too hot when the kids don’t even want to play on the playground.
Since we still had some time
to kill before B’s match, we headed to Barnes and Noble per the kids
request. They always love to browse the
store and play with the train table in there (even though they’re getting too
big for it!) so we obliged since it was indoors and cool. Both kids asked if they could buy something
at the store and B and I agreed they could each spend some of their own money
if they saw something that they wanted, so we ended up spending the entire time
perusing the toys and Legos. About ten
minutes before we needed to leave, we told Olivia that she only had a few more
minutes to pick something out. Jacob had
long picked out a Beyblade by then, but Olivia just couldn’t decide what she
wanted.
Well, little girlfriend kept
dragging her feet and not making a decision, so we finally told her that she
had five minutes left to choose, then four, then three, then two, and then
one. At the end of her time she still
hadn’t decided what to buy and by then she was getting really irritable, so we
told her she had to pick something right then or we were leaving. Well, she still wouldn’t pick anything and B
was on the verge of being late for his tennis match, so we ended up having to haul
her out of there kicking and screaming.
Of all the years she’s been alive, she’s only thrown a small handful of
tantrums like that and that one was probably the second biggest ever. I’m positive everyone in the store thought
that Brian was kidnapping her as he was carrying her out of the store. Lol.
She threw her tantrum all
the way home, but ended up making a 100% recovery within five minutes of
getting out of the car. I’m hoping she
learned a valuable lesson that Mommy and Daddy aren’t bluffing when we give an
ultimatum. #LifeLessons
B left for his tennis match after
dropping us at home, and I got dinner started in the Crockpot, and then the
kids helped me bake a cake for Sunday dinner.
Since my momma cooked last weekend for her own birthday I wanted to cook
this weekend so she didn’t have to.
The rest of the afternoon
was spent doing some laundry and putting together a puzzle with the kids, and
then it was time to finish dinner. My
littlest brother’s birthday is today (HAPPY BIRTHDAY, O’S!!), so we celebrated
him last night with my momma, daddy, grandmother, and my uncle’s friend who
also came over.
We had ranch chicken pasta
and broccoli plus a salad with my grandmother’s famous ranch dressing
accompanied by our usual bottle of wine.
Then for dessert we had chocolate chip bundt cake and sang to my
brother, and it was another delicious Sunday evening together... even if my cake stuck to the pan and ripped off. Hahahaha.
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