Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Hubby continues to do amazing things in his career, most of which he isn’t allowed to tell me about. Sometimes I worry that he’s so good at keeping secrets. He also does wonderful things at home and you seriously should be jealous of the sound system he created for his truck this year. Hubby is definitely the preferred parent for driving children to and from activities.
I am loving helping out at 3 of my 4 children’s school from 9am-4pm as a special ed para. I don’t love trying to get everything done that I used to do with 7 less hours in the day to do them. In fact, I’ve now been diagnosed with IBS so chug fiber drinks and swallow enzymes every time I eat. I still love serving in Primary after all these years but am beginning to think they need to pay me now that I work with kids at a real job. lol.
Kate is getting ready for high school in all the ways you would expect. She is keeping her grades up and joined the travel team for her volleyball club so will begin traveling to out of state for tournaments beginning in January ’22. Her brother tells me she has great Snapchat stats and the two of them can even be found hanging out with other middle schoolers together.
Danny has goals and works hard to achieve them. He successfully drives most of his teachers crazy by almost falling over in his chair every period of every day except for PE. He worked really hard to move from 12U to 13U baseball, has goals to be full time A team material for the middle school basketball team next year and is looking forward to rec basketball with a friend of his beginning in January.
Michelle is rocking her first year of middle school and the counselor and I actually had a little chat with her about how she doesn’t have to have a 4.0 GPA but she keeps getting straight A’s anyway. She enjoys being a part of the middle school orchestra playing her viola, joined BSA and still dances hip hop. Michelle is looking forward to graduating from Primary and beginning Young Women’s at Church in January. I will miss all her help with the Activity Days girls and am grateful Natalie will still be there with me.
Natalie is our favorite elementary schooler and has had the best teachers. This year for 3rd grade she gets to have her 1st grade teacher again (yay!) and her very favorite friend in her class to boot. She is constantly appreciated for her positive attitude, fun and kind personality, and good work ethic at school, while playing softball, and at home. Natalie still give the best hugs in the world as well. I am looking forward to her continuing to just be her this next year.
Maisie now has weekly sleepovers at my parent’s house with her sister, Piper, so that she is not left home alone every day and so that I don’t have to run home on my lunch break to check up on her 5 days a week (now only 4 days/week). Both dogs are behaving much better since being separated about a year ago and my mom loves having a dog again. My dad loves my mom so puts up with the dog too. Awwww. My mom and Hubby have really stepped up to help me work at the middle school and my dad was working Monday - Friday, volunteering on Saturday mornings, and began doing genealogy talks again but then got injured and had to take a leave of absence. Here's to hoping 2022 will be full of more positive adventures for everyone!
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