Monday, Steve celebrated his 42nd birthday. Cecily and I went to have lunch with him at his work, and then I had to turn around and run home because Mira was having a friend come home with us for a play date after school. Then I had to feed the kids before heading up to Orem to have FHE with Great Grandma Watts at 6pm. After FHE, we took Steve out for treat at a place called The Chocolate in Orem. We were underwhelmed even though they have amazing reviews on Google and they had two gluten-free selections for me.
I helped Julia for a while on Tuesday, then I volunteered at the school's book fair for an hour and a half, then I had to finish up the last touches on Halloween costumes because we had a ward Trunk-or-Treat on Wednesday. Before the Trunk-or-Treat, I had visiting teaching and Cecily had tumbling, plus I signed up to bring a dessert to the Chili Cook-off that they host right after.
Thursday, I signed up to bring soup for the teachers dinner during SEP (Student/Educator/Parent, I think) conferences. So since I was making soup for that, I decided to make extra for our family to eat that night too. I had a two-hour lunch with another lady I visit teach. Then I had to pick up kids, take Mira to a lady who said she'd take her to gymnastics, take the soup to the school and attend two teacher conferences, then head home to get Emilia ready for her Daddy Daughter Halloween Dinner Date and Dance for activity days. She and Steve had a ton of fun. But it wasn't until they were leaving that I realized that I'd made a ton of soup for me, Mira, and Cecily. *le sigh* Then I had to go pick up my pot from the school at 7 and I had at least as much of that left as I had at home. So we have a ton of leftover soup in our fridge that no one wants to eat because the noodles got soggy.
Friday, my visiting teachers were coming over. One of them asked if I would give her a tour of my house and show her all the things I'd repurposed, made, or found for almost nothing, so then I felt this driving need to CLEAN EVERYTHING. But at least by 2pm, my house was spotless. Emilia and Mira had another play date at a friend's house after school, so I took Cecily to feed the ducks and run around at the park for an hour and a half. I sure love hanging out with that kid. She makes being a mom fun. Then Steve took me on a date that night and actually went shopping with me. We were going to see a movie, but Steve always gets home like a 1/2 hour too late to make it to the early show and we're too cheap to pay for a movie and a babysitter for 5 hours (because we leave at 6:30 and if we go to a late show, we'd be out until 11:30). So we ended up watching Hidden Figures from Redbox after we got home. It was definitely an eye opening film. What amazing women!
Saturday, we had my family over for dinner, cleaned bathrooms and went and picked up Mira's glasses. Not in that order. Mira likes her glasses about as well as you might like stepping in dog poo and then walking around with it all day long. She makes that dog poo face the entire time she wears them anyway. And I just realized I have not taken her picture. I need to do that. Steve got an expansion for his favorite game, Splendor that night, since we were celebrating his birthday with my family. He finally got to try it out tonight. We were invited to dinner with some ward friends, and then different ward friends came over after we got home to play the expansion with him. Phew! No wonder I'm exhausted. Kinda like Mystery:
These are from the duck pond park date with Cecily:
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