Tuesday, August 13
Today we had a catch-up day. Laundry, emails, unpacking. Carly finished the last of her scheduled EPIC trash container cleaning with Jason’s help as the runner boy. Jason also got together with a friend today and rode their bikes down to Bartell drugs to buy some treats. In the afternoon we went to the library and picked up a few groceries with Carly as our chauffeur. A hodgepodge dinner tonight as Justin was working late and doing a Costco run on his way home. We settled into the 7th Harry Potter movie around 8:30pm making it another late night.
Wednesday, August 14
Today ended up being more ambitious than I planned. Carly decided late this morning that she I wanted to tackle the school supply shopping today. She has compiled the school supply list for the last several years and really enjoys the organization part of that. She is also helping me with Jason‘s birthday party on Friday so she had a list of things that we needed for the games that we are intending to play. So with shopping lists in hand we headed to Covington to do a Walmart run.
Today we had a catch-up day. Laundry, emails, unpacking. Carly finished the last of her scheduled EPIC trash container cleaning with Jason’s help as the runner boy. Jason also got together with a friend today and rode their bikes down to Bartell drugs to buy some treats. In the afternoon we went to the library and picked up a few groceries with Carly as our chauffeur. A hodgepodge dinner tonight as Justin was working late and doing a Costco run on his way home. We settled into the 7th Harry Potter movie around 8:30pm making it another late night.
Wednesday, August 14
Today ended up being more ambitious than I planned. Carly decided late this morning that she I wanted to tackle the school supply shopping today. She has compiled the school supply list for the last several years and really enjoys the organization part of that. She is also helping me with Jason‘s birthday party on Friday so she had a list of things that we needed for the games that we are intending to play. So with shopping lists in hand we headed to Covington to do a Walmart run.
I also had coupons for a free cookie at Chick-fil-A and some discounted donuts at a specialty shop. We also picked up some groceries at Fred Meyer before heading home. That’s the most physical activity I’ve done in the last couple weeks and I was surprised how tired it made me. Our youth activity today was a lake day for three oldest so they left the house around 3:30 PM. Katie had her first soccer practice for the season at 4:30pm and then I allowed Katie and Drew sometime on the Wii before bed while I worked on compiling all the reimbursement requests for our stake young women’s camp. Phew, what a day!
Thursday, August 15
I had my two week postop appointment early this morning at 7:30 AM. Doctor says everything looks great and that I just need to continue to take it easy and let my body heal completely. This morning we finished organizing the school supplies and then Drew got to go to a friend’s birthday party who has a pool in their backyard. Drew also had his first soccer practice for the season this evening as well as Jason having soccer practice. Getting dinners on the table has already been difficult with everyone schedules and now I am being reminded that it will only be more difficult as we enter into the fall sports season. Both Abigail and Carly were babysitting tonight and Carly also had a babysitting gig this afternoon and Abigail’s been working every morning this week. Life is busy.
Friday, August 16
I have never been one who is particularly good at or enjoys planning parties. Now that I’ve been in Mom mode for nearly 18 years I am even less so. This is demonstrated by the fact that I have deferred last two birthday parties in this house to Carly for the organization, planning, and implementing of said parties. Tonight Jason had his 12th birthday party and thankfully Carly was willing to fulfill his desires of putting together a Minute to Win It party. I was really dragging this morning and there was much to do but both Abigail and Carly were working until the early afternoon. We managed to get the house straightened up enough, I made a Texas sheet cake for the evening and Abigail picked up pizzas for the boys to enjoy for dinner.
Thursday, August 15
I had my two week postop appointment early this morning at 7:30 AM. Doctor says everything looks great and that I just need to continue to take it easy and let my body heal completely. This morning we finished organizing the school supplies and then Drew got to go to a friend’s birthday party who has a pool in their backyard. Drew also had his first soccer practice for the season this evening as well as Jason having soccer practice. Getting dinners on the table has already been difficult with everyone schedules and now I am being reminded that it will only be more difficult as we enter into the fall sports season. Both Abigail and Carly were babysitting tonight and Carly also had a babysitting gig this afternoon and Abigail’s been working every morning this week. Life is busy.
Friday, August 16
I have never been one who is particularly good at or enjoys planning parties. Now that I’ve been in Mom mode for nearly 18 years I am even less so. This is demonstrated by the fact that I have deferred last two birthday parties in this house to Carly for the organization, planning, and implementing of said parties. Tonight Jason had his 12th birthday party and thankfully Carly was willing to fulfill his desires of putting together a Minute to Win It party. I was really dragging this morning and there was much to do but both Abigail and Carly were working until the early afternoon. We managed to get the house straightened up enough, I made a Texas sheet cake for the evening and Abigail picked up pizzas for the boys to enjoy for dinner.
Carly ended up having her friend Madi come over to help with the party games and they did an amazing job. It was nice that Justin and I got to basically be spectators at our sons party and be able to focus on taking pictures and helping with cleanup along the way. Jason and his friends seemed to have a great time and the games pretty much lasted until the end of the party. Because we needed even teams Katie was able to be included in all the fun.
He had a couple friends that wanted to stay and watch Jason open up gifts.
Jason has a fun and unique group of friends. I’m glad that we are able to celebrate him today and that he had a great time. We took lots of video clips so hopefully we’ll get those put together to watch all the fun again.
Saturday, August 17
Saturday, August 17
My after-workout walking friends Andrea and Addy and I all happened to be in town today so we decided to meet up and do an easy walk and catch up. Addy’s breast cancer diagnosis has taken a bit of a turn for the worse so a catch-up and briefing was needed. I am typically a fast walker and I was definitely slower than normal today and could tell that I was getting tired much quicker than I would have expected. Today was the first day I have closed my circles since my surgery. I think it’s going to be a long road back to my normal activity level. The rest of the day was spent getting packed. Our trip to Alaska has is coming after several busy weeks so we really haven’t given much thought to preparing for it until today. It’s crazy how long it takes us to get organized and packed up.
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