January 4, 2024 - Thursday


Pizza and a movie night! We've been watching the new Disney Percy Jackson series and it has been SO GOOD. We're loving it. Sadly, we're caught up now, so we'll only have one episode to watch next week. We may need to interrupt the series with a movie so we get a couple more saved up. Anyway, this is hardly worth blogging about. 

I slept really badly last night. I'm feeling entirely better from COVID, as is everyone else, except for my congestion. It's just really, really bad. I can't breathe through my nose at all! I have a bad feeling about tonight. But tomorrow is my 10th day, since day 0, and I'll run out and do my errands to get ready for Jonas and Clem's birthday party on Saturday. I'm feeling unprepared, but, honestly, there's not much for me to do to prepare. Get Air does everything, along with providing pizza and soda. All I need to do is bring some fruit and veggies and favors and that is all I'm doing - the bare minimum. Sad, but true. The kids won't care! But I'll be a little sad. At least I won't be stressed! And I think that's more important. 

School went well again today. I've been having lots of tantrums from Clem and I'm not really sure what's up with that. I'm also getting worried about Ruby's reading. It doesn't seem to be improving much lately! But she also hasn't been practicing much lately. I think I need to get them to the library. Ollie has made HUGE leaps with her name though! She wrote it independently today! Both Ollie and Olive. Very proud of her hard work. I've been worried that she's just not going to be ready to do kindergarten next year, but this gave me more hope. 

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