Friday night we began by going to my school for Family Knight. We helped break in the new playground and ate a brief hot dog meal before being scared away by the impending thunderstorm.
Champ had a wonderful opportunity to go to Jonah’s birthday party on Friday evening at an incredible place called Zip City. Unfortunately, he only got to stay for an hour. In that hour, he did zip lining, laser tag, and bubble soccer. He worked his way up to doing ziplining upside down. He also tried trampolines at the facility. Unfortunately, he had to leave before he got to try the 2 story rock climbing wall. I stayed for the entire party and enjoyed talking to friends.
Yesterday morning I went to a local coffee shop with former coworkers. Then I did the majority of my grocery shopping at Aldi.
At home, I browned a package of sausage, 2 pounds of ground turkey, and 2 pounds of ground beef. I baked sweet potatoes before turning them into 51 sweet potato pancakes. I baked a package of bacon and 2 turkey breasts. I made BBQ pulled pork in the crock pot. I made 15 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I froze most of these items so that I can pull them out as needed in the next two weeks. I diced 3 bell peppers. I put carrots into individual ziplock bags. I opened all the snack boxes, placed the individual bags in the pantry, and put the boxes in recycling.
Last night I went to Panera with Lara, Cory, Melanie, and Diane. It is always good to laugh and catch up with old friends. I finished cleaning the kitchen when I got home.
This morning I served in the middle school Sunday School class. I came home and started mowing. After the mower stopped twice, I came into clean and listen to the sermon online. The house got the works cleaning: dusting, vacuuming, mopping, disinfecting, etc. I even cleaned a couple of rugs and cleaned out the shower head. I’ve been working on laundry all day too. I returned to mowing. After the mower stopped again, I was thankful for the neighbor who helped it get going again. I went to Meijer to grab a few last minute items. I was thrilled to see that Shopkins’ birthday invitations were on clearance. I picked up 24 invitations for $3.00 instead of 8 invitations for $3.00. I’ll save those until Princess has her birthday party.
I’ve also worked on paying bills online, updating my budgeting app, talking to Chase about a charge I didn’t understand, updating my checkbook, and balancing my checkbook. Then I moved onto grading papers and entering grades into my grade book. I took a small walk before driving to get the kids. I walked laps around the gas station as I waited for them. I noticed 3 other families making a 6:00 exchange of kids at that same gas station. On the way home, we spied a rainbow. At one point, it seemed we were driving through the rainbow, which was super cool. I apparently made another driver angry as we were about to get off the interstate. His front seat passenger flipped me off. Champ saw it. I used that opportunity to talk about what that action revealed about that person's character. I also asked Champ what it revealed about my character that I didn't return the gesture.
After a late dinner at home, we watched a little TV. Champ is now snuggled up against me as he reads.
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