Fall Break Read-a-thon

Today is the final day of Fall break for the boys. Daniel and Peter did some reading in the pantry, lol, and Owen did 2 hours of reading along as he listened to Audible.

The boys all did a lot of reading this past weekend, it's been like a fall break read a thon. Last Thursday, I told the boys that they could go play at the church, cause I needed to go update the board in the Relief Society room anyway. Well, I kept putting off. We didn't go on Thursday, didn't go Friday, then I got in over my head with the mess in the kitchen on Saturday. I eventually did go at 9:30 pm Saturday night. Daniel and Peter came with me, but that didn't give them enough time to play. I told them that we would go again Monday/today, which we did. Owen also brought his friend Afton, who knocked on the door right as we were heading to the car. The kids played at the church while I worked on the RS board some more. I didn't need to get back home, and I brought my computer, so I tried to blog after I was done with the church stuff. That didn't work well though, cause I kept getting interrupted. After two hours, they were hungry so we came back home. Corey was still at home, and had just come into the kitchen to make himself some food. Then we walked in, and the kids all wanted his eggs. He suddenly acted all like this was the last straw and he had to leave quickly so the kids didn't suck the life out of him. I guess I never really like it when these moments happen, when we are just home doing our thing and it seems like just our presence was somehow... bad. ("And that's.... bad...?" - Emperor Cuzco) I don't know if that makes sense, but that brief lunch interaction between him and the kids and I kinda sucked the wind out of my sails and killed the spring in my step. I'm up here typing to try and reset my emotions and to pray. Trying to figure out how I was feeling... I think it's helping me process. Something else he said that also usually kills positive emotions in me was that we are "out of penguins." That is how he describes our  financial situation, pretending we're like Shackleton stuck in Antarctica. So, we're praying for penguins.  Ugh... can't we just leave???? Do we have to stay here? Can we TRY to leave Antarctica? Or are we stuck and we need to keep pretending this is what the rest of our life is going to be like. Sigh. I saw this reel today, it was fitting and made me smile a bit. 

I guess Corey and I are true friends to each other! Me to him via kids, him to me via financial stretching.

Another thing that helps my emotions was that after the girls got home from school, I went on a ride to the ruins. I enjoy the mountains.

It was a bit cold though. Note to self: if it's 45 degrees or less, get toe warmers. Corey stayed at his dad's and worked late, and also told me to not spend $ tonight, so our original plan for this last FHE before Halloween, which was going to be buying then carving pumpkins, was scratched. Natalie started to cry. I'm not sure why she took it so hard.

I did have some chocolate chips and pumpkin puree on hand, so I gave those to her and she was able make pumpkin cookies. 

She's becoming quite the baker and getting lots of experience with different recipe's under her belt. I told the kids that we'll go to the trunk or treat in my parent's neighborhood, that we heard about yesterday when we were at their ward, so that is Thursday and will be a FHE extension. Then they watched the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie on the ipad, cause the remote to connect to the tv wasn't working or something.

Do you like Lily's make up there? She was being creative this evening and made herself become a skeleton.

I was impressed with the neck and stuff! It was all very bone-like Lily! Good job.