Hump day

Happy Valentine’s Day!!! 💕

I am not quite sure how I managed to not put these pictures on the last update... but here it is. 

Juju and his team was tailing their opponent on saturdays game. At one point I caught ju and his friends, taking a knee, putting in an extra prayer and making a game plan! I jus thought it was the cutest thing!

Yesterday’s fiasco- it was a busy, and long day at work... followed by a meeting. I thankfully was able to skip out a bit early in order to still get ju to his basketball practice. It was also Jai’s last day of his reading challenge! So that meant reading while bubba was on the court! Jai’ worked extremely hard, and we read in all of our spare time! We read 20 minutes each night, which means Jai’ exceeded my goal set for him by a entire 60 minutes!!!! He read 200 minutes total! 

And I am so proud to say, his growth and familiarity with common site words, and connecting words have become fluent. I even think he may have gone up in a reading level because of how fluent he is reading on his current reading level. 

So thank you all for your generous contributions to his fundraiser! And for supporting Jai’! It means a lot!

After basketball, it was a hustle and bustle until bed! It’s been a crazy busy day. Jai’ decided he wanted to wear his “ sleep shades” to bed. 😂 okayyyy- what ever works? 

Sure enough... he sleep asleep with them on! I got a good laugh from it, and got a picture for keepsakes !

For Valentine’s, I got the boys each books! Julian has been reading, Dog Man, so he got the next book of their series! And Jai’ has a new love for the biscuit books! In addition, I decided to start a new tradition. Well- continue my paw paws tradition. 

Each and every Valentine’s Day, he would get my mim(Grandmaw) a box of Whitman’s chocolate( yellow box) and get me a small box of heart chocolate.

Well I did the same except I got sugar free, so ju could enjoy more without reservation! 🙂

Anyways, I hope you all have a great Valentine’s Day!

I was so blessed to spend lunch with Julian! I love being around him in his environment! He’s such a great kid, I just when I think I couldn’t love him more - i love him MORE! 

Dinner was followed by a great dinner with great friends! Who spoil me way more than I deserve! I’m forever thankful!

Long Long over due

My intentions are always good. I would love to be updating this daily.. like I did once upon a time. BUT life has got so busy, its hard to find 10 minutes for myself, but less 45 to blog. I come back here often, to reminisce on times. This blog tells our story for quite the number of years. I want to attempt once more to bring it back. To resume blogging, if not daily, maybe weekly? Maybe every Sunday, if nothing more.


Josh has been gone once again, in KEY WEST this time. The house is so lonesome without his spunk, and whit.

Julian has been playing basketball. He is doing stellar. I love seeing him so passionate for a sport, and off of electronics for a change. He scored his first 3 pointer during his game yesterday, and I thought he would going to shoot through the roof with excitement.



 Jai', well we have been reading in almost every spare minute. We read so muchhh! He is coming along. Much better than he was just a couple weeks ago. His school is doing a fun raiser, and so far we have raised $180 dollars to donate! This has been very motivating for Jai'! He loves the thought of helping the school to buy new books.. and his class to get a pizza and pajama party.





That's all for today, quick easy and simple update. I will try to do better from here on out. Yes I'm aware that you've head that exact line a time or two. lol No judgement needed, okay? :P
Love...

Funny remark of the day: This is random, but I want it documented so that later I can come back to read this, and laugh..

Setting it up for you ::Julian has always asked how he came out of my belly? Since he was small he would think that that I pooped him out. lol..

with that in mind..

Today I make pizza for the boys as their lunch.
I always pick pepperonis off Jai's pizza, as he don't like them( or bacon, or fudge,.. or French fries, or a lot of common things American's eat daily.)
As I give Jai his pizza with no evidence of pepperoni.. he takes one bite and exclaims," I taste pepperoni! "
Julian replies," what is wrong with you?? Where did you even come from??"
I chimed in, " Mars, HE is def. from Mars."
Julian was quick to add.." NO not Mars, he is from Uranus!"
and before I could even think of my next thought Jai states," that's pretty correct, because I did come out of mommy's butt" LOL

Making Memories

On these last couple of weeks prior to daddys departure we are going to really try to fill our time with fun times, to leave the boys with some good memories to think back on when they're having hard times.

Last friday(13 of March), Josh brought the boys to the bowling ally. I had went see a movie with a friend and her daughter, and low and behold after hearing they were just a blow away bowling made me have ants in my pants. Although I did enjoy the girl time, and the movie... I just could not get to my boys fast enough to enjoy such a fun sport!

The boys truly had a blast and were actually much more into than i expected.

Jai would parade, hop, skip and jump each time he would bowl!..Even if it was only a gutter ball!

It was also a great opportunity to work on colors with Jai! He had to tell me which color ball he wanted, and was prompted to chose a different ball each time. He is doing great with his colors by the way!

Julian too was a pretty impressive bowler. Julian won the second game( bowling a 87). He bowled free handed and without any assistance the second game!

The following day was our neighbor's surprise 35th birthday party! My thoughtful neighbor hired a face painter for the kids, which was a HUGEEEEEEEEE hit!

We made great friends this weekend, met new neighbors, and truly had so much fun being our age with awesome people! We are really finding our place here, its just so sad that Josh is leaving just as we are able to start enjoying our new life here.

warmer days....

The warmer days brung lots of evening chatting, outdoor sitting, cold beer sipping, flip flop flopping, smiling children here on Starwood!

With out effort or much though, each afternoon the lawn chairs come out, and the children run. Chalk, water play, climbing trees, pushing trucks... after all it is a boys world around here.

 




Occasionally, we adults have enjoyed the play time as well! How else would we celebration approach of Spring!
.... But for the most part, I've kept the celebration of cami wearing weather by drinking my green tea at my front door( were no cold draft scares me off) and letting the sun warm my skin!

Snowy days on top of snow days....

It has been so cold here, rarely making it to the freezing threshold. The kids have been off school, more than they've been in school, due to the accumulation of snow and ice that just cant melt due to the low low temperatures

By the second week of the nonsense, the kids were not longer happy to see the white magic falling from the sky.

but they sure were happy for the first snowfall! :)

Even the pond at school was completely frozen over. and students had thrown large chunks of ice on top in attempt to break it, but nope- it was solid as ICE (literally).

In the mix of all the freezing, we had a bathroom leaking problem, that must have been happening for a long time with out our notice. By the time it became visible, there was mold and everything conducive to a complete gut job.

the bathroom is a work in progress, but has already come a very long way! We are so excited with the turn out so far!