Dancing with Daffodils

 We made it! We got through this past week and now we have two full weeks of Christmas family fun to be had. I am so excited. No school and so now all I have to nag my kids about is cleaning. Hooray!  Monday I painted the basement wall, did laundry, took some stuff over to Nola for our book club exchange and then I hosted my virtual piano recital. It went pretty well considering not everyone's pianos are in tune and the sound wasn't great on all the devices but everyone played well. I really missed seeing all the parents of my students because they are all neighbors and friends but at least the kids got some kind of performing experience. My MIL sent me these as a good luck on the piano recital-so pretty and thoughtful! Tuesday we had to pick up some stuff from Curtis's school and groceries and then we finally got the carpet put back down. Very exciting after four months to finally have our basement put back together! The kids were all running around in the open space and i...

 This week was much better, for which we are all grateful. Monday we got the wall fixed (although for more money that we were hoping but whatever, it is fixed!) and I did laundry and cleaned and taught some piano lessons. Tuesday was more school, piano lessons and grocery pick up and cleaning. The girls had dance and I practiced the pinao a lot for when I play in church next week. Wednesday I did body pump, dishes, ironing, and of course kept an eye on the clock to make sure everyone got on their school meetings on time, which is no small feat. That night Josh and Lily had a fun Christmas decoration scavenger hunt in our neighborhood with the youth that I thought sounded fun. Thursday I taught a bunch of piano lessons all afternoon and I've got my virtual recital Monday night so hopefully that goes well. Hopefully a few of my students practice this weekend too. The kids all did pretty well in school this week and we are so excited to just have one more week before Christmas break! ...

 I already wrote about the first half of this week so I'll keep this short. Friday was a horrible day. They happen and I have moved on but I was in a very cranky, frustrated mood and my younger two were being difficult about school and my house was a mess and I just feel so out of control of my life. Josh has been so busy with work and church that we have hardly had time to talk this week and I was feeling very alone and unsupported and annoyed. It all kind of came to a head when Brandon was whining about a school assignment and I just lost it. I told him he could figure it out himself and I put on shoes and left my house. I ended up walking around my neighborhood twice just crying, feeling overwhelmed with what is expected of me right now. I'm going to chalk some of this up to the fact that I was on my cycle but sometimes life just explodes and so I walked to calm down. Even when I came back to my house I hid in the back yard on a bench just sitting quietly and praying before ...

 I'm not really in the mood to write today so I'll keep this brief. This past week was much like any other. We were busy with school work mostly. For some reason this week felt even longer and I got very little done besides school work and making sure my kids are doing it all. I am so excited to have a few days off for Thanksgiving. It is like I am a kid again and can't wait for days off from school! I did get some cleaning, some cooking and some exercising in but not much.  Book club was fun this week. We talked about some Agatha Christie books and I had read them both before but it had been awhile so it was fun to reread them. I generally like mysteries and trying to figure them out. It was a small group of us but we had a pretty good discussion.  Wednesday I got to see Chelsea for a bit because I watched her kids while she had some alone time. It was fun to help out and to talk with her for a bit.  Okay, that was two weeks ago and now, here I am today, Thursday, D...