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5 Faves of this week

What? Two posts in two days? Don’t get used to it, people. The cheer schedule changed a bit and by some strange twist of fate I have my laptop all to myself, so Imma gonna go with it!

Linking it up with Hallie @ Moxie Wife via Grace @ Camp Patton. Confused? Don’t be. It’s all good. Link to either and you get lots of goodies!

Here’s mine:

1. My Pinterest food boards coming through for dessert for work luncheon tomorrow. We chose these, my awesome 11 yo made them and we all had a little bitty taste test. You know. Just to be sure and all. We were out of sprinkles (travesty) but it didn’t seem to hurt these dense and super sweet little babies.

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2. Evernote and recipes. Totally saved dinner tonight. Or created dinner tonight. Either way you look at it. Awesome!!

fresh off my phone, yo!

3. More foodish items. Do you like chai tea? I do. My friend told me about this new Tazo flavor and I had a cup this evening for a little pick me up to make it through the evening. Yum. Like a spicy chocolate milk. It’s still 90 degrees here, so I drank mine on iced almond milk…you can make it hot if you prefer.

yes, please!

4. This dude. Ah, that we were all so completely confident to sleep so completely and blissfully aware of the mulch hanging from our rear ends.

5. This dude. So completely confident in himself that he wore his sister’s headband in his hair like this ALL. DAY. LONG. to school. Then he was inspired by this the ‘do to seek a new cut….scheduled for Saturday. Love him and his manly poser poses.

Now go on and check out all the other fun faves for the week!

Sick days bite!

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Our youngest had another little sore throat sneak up this weekend and being a veteran of strep throat for far too many episodes, I absolutely believe her self diagnosis as she is SPOT ON. EVERY. TIME.

I went ahead and called in to my work yesterday so they’d have time to get coverage and hopefully not shaft my friend and co-worker in my absence..I think it worked out and was far less stressful on me having to jump ship to get our girl to her doctor appointment AND figure out who’d watch her today. It all worked out. In the end, her appointment was at 2 in the afternoon so I had a lot of free time on my hands as a result. Sadly I can’t just chill, nap and read (though I’d LIKE to!) so I tackled some tedious little tasks I’ve been “meaning to get to” forEVAH…

And the cat was truly enjoying snuggling up on humans all day….after he slept off his all-night out and about the neighborhood, that is…

Sleeping off his big night out

he’s snuggling me or my laptop…either way it’s really hard to type like this.

We had several bags of clothes to donate to our churches thrift store, so I went through my closet and dresser and added several more bags AND….delivered them. To the thrift store. I know, right? The delivery is key to purging, otherwise it’s just moving it all around.
I had so much room on my side of the closet so…….I reorganized and color grouped my shirts and blouses. I’m a nerd. I know. However, it looks really good. I might actually be able to FIND something when I need it!!
I did my Abs and Arms routine, 3 sets each. I’ll be walking while our oldest daughter has soccer practice, therefore that makes a good start to Week 2 for Peak 313‘s 5 week challenge. And I DID eat and log my food today which, BTW, is a huge struggle, especially while at home tempted by all the choices. Add a little restlessness in and it’s a potential recipe for disaster. I made it through. Phew!
A month ago we had to cut down a magnolia tree in our backyard (it was diseased and dying) and had to replace it with a new tree. We did that yesterday with an elm in the front yard. I called the city to come inspect it and check us off the list. I hate those silly phone calls. It’s done.
Deleted MANY, MANY duplicate albums clogging up my iPhoto library. Still lots more to do, but I made a HUGE dent today. Tedious, tedious, tedious..Don’t even ask how it happened…it’s still a mystery!!
Then I took the girl to the office and dropped off her antibiotics and then since I was home….the taxi was in full motion…pick up older daughter, pick up youngest son, pick up antibiotics, now to get dinner going and then off to soccer…dang, I need a nap!!
I did manage to give myself and my girl a pedicure….garnet and gold toes for my ‘Noles and pink for her.

Peace out, peeps. We’re off to soccer!

Ch-ch-ch-changes….

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Our fluffy, fatty learned to climb and jump and last night he decided to pull an all-nighter. Cats. Dirty little stay-out!!

Back-to-school always brings a new routine with it and, try as we might, it ALWAYS takes a couple of weeks of tweaking and a TON of patience as we all get in to our new groove. I’m a structured person and change is rarely easy on me, however, God’s grace can carry us through…..if we let it and so far……so far…..a fairly successful week. We only have a few binders to purchase and some extra loose leaf paper…not bad, not bad…

1. Oldest son started high school. New faces, new classes, taking the bus for the first time EVER and so far….so far…..he only got on the wrong bus the first day (coming home). Aside from that, it appears his transition–especially the waking @ 5:30 a.m. change, has gone pretty well.

2. Youngest son’s academic brilliance overshines his common sense on occasion and had a little lapse of such during a rainy afternoon resulting in major miscommunication with Dad. All ended well, its times like these that I have to keep repeating to myself……he’s only 13, he isn’t using his full brain yet…he’s only 13….it’s painful though.

3. Oldest daughter forgot her backpack one day BUT remembered her lunch. Dad to the rescue which meant getting snagged in morning school traffic….GRRRRr…..tweak, tweak, tweak….must get in the habit of remembering all that’s to be remembered…

4. With rain ALL week long the girls FINALLY had practices last night, so we’ve had mostly all family dinners this week! Which I love. And which will also be the biggest challenge for me with these evening practices messing up our dinner schedules, but see how good God is??….he eased me into it this week. How often do YOU have family dinners??

This puppy is on sale now and has some GREAT dinner ideas….a lovely addition for our weeknight dinners…save money….save time…eat well….I like it, I like it!!

5. Hubby has taken on the coupon challenge and is in the researching phase (and accumulation phase) of coupons and how to work the sales. He is a detail guy and has infinitely more patience than I in these matters and I look forward to him steering this ship AND saving us some cash!!! We’ve reigned in our grocery bill for our family of 6 (2 teen boys included) to roughly $600/mo…but I know we can go lower. What’s your average??

6. I finally broke down and bought new sneakers. My work ones are shot, so I’ll swap out my walking ones for work (not my favorites) and use my new ones for walking. Broke them in on the track at practice last night….3 miles!! Nice. Add to that 2 days at the gym (3 today) and I’m feeling pretty good about this week. Woop woop!! Definitely helps to manage the stress level!!

My feet liked these….on sale@ Kohl’s…

7. Having dinner and a night out with one of my oldest girlfriends tonight and several other high school friends. She’s in town from California and it’s going to be a min-high school reunion! She and I have been friends since 7th grade!! It will be fun…but with an early game tomorrow morning this Mama will be home early-ish so I’m not so grumpy tomorrow. That leaves Hubby on practice drop off/pick up, etc, etc….he’s the Bomb and a Blessing. Balance. All Balance. A constant work in motion, isn’t it?? Have a great weekend!!

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Lazy cat

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Having never owned a cat before, the last few months have been interesting. Lots of figuring out on both sides. However, amusement at our little feline’s expense is never-ending. One thing we never tire of is his sloth-ness. Cats TRULY do sleep alot. Apparently chasing and eating chamelons takes quite a bit of effort, as does stalking birds and rooting around in the stickly bushes in order to tramp half the sticks into the house on the fluffy tail.