Sunday Ruby woke up coughing and I debated skipping church but in the end, I decided to go. Her cough kind of died down as the morning progressed so I figured she was probably fine. She spent most of the sacrament meeting with Sister Pearce. Sister Pearce is nice and lets Ruby color on her tablet and also lets Ruby use her special markers and color in her notebook. Ruby in turn told Sister Pearce stories about a show where a person shot a car. Ruby told her she thought that was funny- she really needs to stop watching you tube with my older kids. I appreciate Sister Pearce. After sacrament I hung out in nursery for a bit to see how Ruby was doing with the other toddlers but they don't interact much in the beginning. They eat snacks and do a lesson. She seemed ok so I left and went to Sunday School like a good girl. After church I had a zoom RS mtg and then after that Ben had a soccer game. I don't love busy Sundays. The girls all came to Ben's game. It was a bit cool out but not too bad. Ruby was very energetic and had to be chased around. She is also very extroverted and gets in everyone's businesss. Someone had a big dog and she kept running up to it and petting it and trying to make friends with the dog's owners. She is hard on my introverted heart.
Monday the weather was nice so I worked hard to quickly get through all the things- picking up groceries, working out, cleaning the house, and school work- so we could get outside. I managed to get it all done and then we went for a walk to 711. The weather was great going there, but coming back I started to get a bit warm. I think it's because there is a tricky part walking back where there is no sidewalk, a crevice and its uphill. If it was just me it wouldn't be so bad but pushing Ruby's stroller on that part gets me every time. Right now it looks like they are building a sidewalk on the other side of the road and that will be so nice to have.
Monday evening I did a little mother's day shopping for myself. I asked Tyler if I could just have some guilt free money for mother's day and he came through. It was really nice to be able to shop for myself- I tend to spend most of my money on my kids. After all the shopping I ended up with a little bit of everything- some clothes, shoes, jewlery, hats. I feel properly spoiled and I am quite happy with my spoils.
Tuesday Ruby and I decided to just go to the library to play- storytime is over for now. Unfortunately the library was closed for professional development so we went to a different library. I don't love that one as much, but it was still nice to get out for a bit.
After lunch, we went to the girls' school for Penny's recorder recital. I do not love the sound that recorder makes but I will say they did a fairly decent job of playing the right notes together. I was impressed.
We had to have an early dinner Tuesday because the boys had a pep rally and shoot out for the nationals tournament. Ruby, Penny and I tagged along- Lucy stayed at home as per usual. The pep rally was a little sad- maybe 50 people spread through the bleachers. They introduced all the archers going to the nationals and talked about how exciting it was and then took a group picture. Then they did a shoot out- one last practice before nationals. They were selling Dairy Queen ice cream so Ruby did pretty well since she was able to overdose on sugar.
Wednesday, after school and work, the boys headed off to Nationals in Kentucky. Meanwhile I took Penny to soccer practice. Ruby and Lucy came along, so we hung out at Central Park in Milford. It was a little cool again so it wasn't very peopley but Ruby managed to latch on to what people were there. Near the end she started chasing a girl and they became pretty quick friends. The girl loved being having Ruby chase her which was great. The father of the girl chatted with me for a bit- his wife had just had her second baby. Ruby really is forcing me to talk to people when I would really be ok to not talk to people, lol.
We picked Penny up early from practice so I could take both girls to the young women's activity. It was at the Jones' home. I ended up just staying with Ruby because it wasn't worth driving back home. I had a nice chat with the new mom in the ward. She seems pretty cool and I definitely need to get our girls together since her girls homeschool as well. It would be great to have more homeschool friends.
Thursday, while the girls were at school, Ruby and I went to the preschool co-op. It was at a new house this time, Kelly's, and it was so much more like a preschool- that made me happy. There was circle time, a matching game, a book, an active game (mother may I?), a craft (making mother's day cards) and then snack time. Ruby enjoyed it and we were still able to get some nice chats in. Nobody brought up the Memorial Day bbq so I am going to let that drop for a bit...But Sam did bring up frustrations with the rift between our ward and the other ward that meets in our building. Apparently the yw presidency is unwilling to try to bridge the rift and it all seems very petty. Especially now that we have a family from the other ward in our ward.
The girls had Field Day at school Thursday so I was able to pick them up a little later. We ended up going to Chuck E after I picked them up. Chuck E had gotten rid of some rides/games and had gotten some new ones. At first I was excited about the change up but I am not so excited anymore. They got rid of the police car- Ruby's favorite!- and a couple games that Ruby and I could actually play together (a lizard that catches bugs and space invader). The ones they added are not the best. There is one that drops balls on you and both girls said it hurts. There is a Lugi Mansion one but they girls said it was confusing. It looks like they replaced the police car with an old noah's ark ride. Ruby didn't love it at first but it seemed to grow on her so maybe it will become her new favorite.
After Chuck E, we went and got dinner at Chick-Fil-A. We managed to bribe Ruby to eat her food with ice cream and then she played in the play place for a bit. Of course, she immediately made a friend. When the other girl was on something that Ruby wanted to play on, Ruby sang Daniel Tiger to her "You can take a turn and then I'll take a turn." It was funny and effective.
After Chick-Fil-A, we stopped at Costco for treats (and diapers) and then we went home to veg out. When home, a potty seat I had bought for Ruby had arrived, and she was excited to use it. She sat out on it many times and she even tinkled once. She has not sat on it since she tinkled but it was a nice intro to the potty nonetheless.
That night, to continue our girls fun, we watched some of "Frozen 2" with Ruby and then after she went to bed, the girls watched "Pride and Prejudice" (the mormon version).
Meanwhile....the boys had fun in Kentucky shooting arrows and going to horse races at Churchill Downs. They did not do spectacular with shooting but I think it was still a cool experience for them, And they did not bet on any horses but apparently, if they had, Steven would have won us some money.
Friday we had a rough morning homeschooling- lots of feelings during math, but the rest of our morning and afternoon were fairly chill. Lucy went to mow a nearby ward members lawn. Penny, Ruby and I went for a walk around the neighborhood and down in the woods while she mowed. Lucy made $30 mowing (an hours worth of work) but she is still not convinced it's worth the money. She reminds me a lot of Steven.
That evening the boys came home. I think they were a bit tired and were a bit cranky with me. I had what I thought was a brilliant idea for celebrating Steven's graduation and he shot me down. And Ben was wanting to ditch a soccer game so he could stay longer at a party which annoyed me. It was a day of feelings. I ended the day outside walking with Ruby though, and that was really nice.
Saturday Penny had a soccer game in the morning. I went by myself since she had to go early for pictures. This is probably her last season with this team so I decided it was time to finally buy them. I met the grandma of her friend on the team and she was a really nice lady. The game was nice for us, Penny's team creamed the other team. Tyler ended up coming for the last 10 minutes with Ruby because he said I had guilted him into coming. I had not but whatever. The rest of my Saturday was pretty uneventful which is just the way I like it.
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