Football & Calendar

There is still no snow here, so if the sun it still up, you'll find Owen practicing football in the backyard. 

Corey got him a football stand to hold the football, which you can see in that video. It's the orange thing in front of him. But he's using a black thing instead - a plunger mute for his trumpet. I guess he likes how that works better? Hopefully it will still work when/if he ever needs it for trumpet. 

I'm sick with a headache and cough. This morning, after a hard night of coughing, I was still sleeping on the loveseat couch in our room with a rice bag on my head. I hear Owen walk up next to me. I squint open my eyes and see he is dressed in his football uniform and helmet. He didn't sleep in them, he just wakes up and gets ready like it's game day every day. "Mom, you forgot to put Peter's birthday on the calendar." That was how he said good morning to me. I replied "No I didn't. I wrote it down last night." "Oh!" and he happily left. I thought that was funny. 

Peter has been waiting for months for January to get here, so that he could see his birthday and now how many days are left until his birthday. So there is still a lot to unpack and clean, but putting up our January & February calendars was a priority. I got it done yesterday, except for writing down events, and then I walked away and left it on the ground, with scissors close by. And markers. And a few moments later, Natalie found me to tell me that K had written on the calendar. I went to see the damage, and the writing wasn't bad. I was worried she'd scribbled across the whole thing, but instead she carefully colored on a few of the dates. I can deal with that. 

I was able to cut out the numbers of the old calendar and glue them on. And I taped the cut at the bottom. Then I put it up on the wall to keep it away from her. Peter was sad I didn't put his birthday on, and so last night after scriptures, even though I didn't have colored markers to make it cute, I wrote his birthday, Joseph's birthday, and our anniversary on in pencil. I was lucky I put it on there before Owen called me out this morning! 

Corey and I did go climbing yesterday. He went to his dad's to work, and I drove out there in the evening and and we met up to do some top rope. After that, he headed back to his dad's to work, and I ran into Savers for a moment. I found a "Simple Abundance" book and got it for Mel, and gave it to her and told her we are going to do it together. :) Giving it another try and hoping I can keep with it. We did through Jan 3rd today and are going to check in with each other every Sunday. Mel and I also went for a short bike ride. I was coughing a lot last night and today my voice is scratchy. It felt better in the afternoon, well enough that I decided to brave the winter air. As soon as we were outside and breathing hard, it was killing my throat for the first 15 min. I was worried I was undoing any repair/healing that had taken place, but then it felt ok and I was able to breath hard and it didn't hurt. I hoping I'm on the mend.