April 21, 2025 - Monday


Back at it! I decided last week that I'm going to start doing intentional meals for the kids...at least this week and maybe next. Just to see how it goes! I made eggs and toast this morning and got school started. It went fine. There weren't that many more dishes and everyone seemed to be happy to have something other than cereal. 

For lunch, I got pre-made pizza dough and taught the kids to make calzones! They loved it so much and it really would have been perfect if I hadn't forgotten to set the damn oven timer. Sadly, they were pretty overcooked. The big kids just dealt with it and ate them anyway. The littler girls took a few bites and were like, this is super burnt. Can't eat it. 😓 We took extra long to finish school today, with all the cooking going on, but it was fine. 

I was in a horrible mood all day. I think I might be getting my period? I'm not sure, but the mood was terrible. I told myself all day that I was going to get into some cozy jammies and chill out in the evening. I was going to lay in bed with some wine and watch a show. Alas, I decided to go to home church instead. I just got to the point where it was like, I'm literally doing nothing. I should just go. Maybe it'll cheer me up a little? And it was good! It didn't necessarily cheer me up, but we did have a good time. 

We've been debating about Cherrystone again the last couple of days. After we hung out with my family on Saturday, both Ben and I admitted to really wanting to make the camping trip work. Unfortunately, we leave for Cherrystone the day before the big kids leave for Blowout camp and get home the day after they return from Blowout camp. So. If we went without them, we'd have to get someone to care for them before and after camp for a day. OR we could force them to miss Blowout camp altogether, which feels bad to me, but not so bad to Ben. I'm still tempted to just miss Cherrystone so that I can be the one to drop Jonas and Clem off and pick them up, but Ben really, really doesn't want to miss it. We're just so torn! 

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