Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Day in the Life of a 9th and 6th Grader


Morning view

Let there be light

Making the bed every day

Piano in the mornings for Christian who still gets up at 6:15am no problem. He does use an alarm clock but I'm pretty sure he doesn't need it



A new menu and recipe person I'm trying out

Comes in to whichever bathroom I'm in to say bye

Current beauty regimen

Dye-ing a stray white

He gets to use his phone at 7am


Riding every day to HHS. Starts on one side then swings a leg over

Often tired but extra tired this week for some reason

Current coffee is a shot of espresso, milkadamia, a scoop of Orgain chocolate protein powder and a Tbs of Vital Proteins chocolate collagen. Can you tell I Love chocolate?

Olin's reminder to take his Costco chicken bake for lunch

Allergy pill a daily must for everyone esp me and Olin

A late breakfast today of chicken broth and rice

Registered for 9:15am class

I'm on carpool today. Picking up Annie. They are moving soon so I will be doing a new house pick up!


Drop off starts at 8:30am



Best feeling apres-gym

Current news

More curent news

I love these Baggu grocery bags

Typical spring week

 My mounds of supplements I often put off until later in the day. Turmeric, probiotic, fish oil, multivitamin, hair vitamin, lion's mane

I'm volunteering at Meals on Wheels around once a week


Back home for lunch. Cobbled together a wrap

Prep for dinner since I have time and there's a 5pm soccer game. Lots of veggie chopping.

Current fridge. It's really full because of the new recipes

uhhh....finally a shower at 2pm

Alaina's taking Olin home today so settling in to read my book club book

Christian bikes himself home at 2:30pm and Olin got dropped off. Piano practice for Olin.

Olin has had a handful of soccer practices at Leslie Groves so he gets to bike down! 5-6pm

Game time

Close match but 0-1 loss to Walla Walla

Christian got an injury on his left calf

Babz helping Olin with his vocab workbook

We don't usually eat this late but this was after the game. Everyone helped to make chicken Philly subs and a salad.

Settling in for shows. Current line up is Renovation Aloha, Top Chef, Amazing Race, Jeopardy

Christian finished homework in the other room while Celluma-ing his leg

Olin and I took out and fed Spikey

I still read to them. haha. I enjoy it. Christian is usually in his room while I read but we are now reading Seabiscuit and about 3/4 of the way through. Slow going.

 

Sunday, April 21, 2024

6th Grade Trip to Leavenworth & more Soccer

Olin's 6th grade trip (Olin, Kian, Liam, Sadie) spent quite a bit of time planning their big 6th grade trip to Leavenworth, Washington. They found an airbnb and activities such as horseback riding and the alpine roller coaster. They spent last Tuesday - Friday there and had a great time. Olin said teacher Ken and their chaperone, Sandrine were great, and Sandrine made them cookies as well as cooking them a slow cooker spaghetti and meatballs dinner. 


Leavenworth house


The first win I finally witnessed! Shootout against RHS


They had a grocery list and went shopping the first night at Safeway

Bagels and cream cheese and eggs for breakfast



Olin said his horse was the oldest and mildest, named Mocha

Alpine coaster that he said all the kids initially thought it was tiny and looked disappointing and then it ended up being way more scary than they all anticipated. He said he went full speed, as did Sadie, but the other two boys slowed themselves down a few times


Another win against Kamiakin!



They were lucky to go on a weekday in the off-season so I think they said they pretty much had the whole city to themselves




Camp & Crutches

One boy went to camp Lutherhaven for the week (4 nights) and the other went to a track meet Wednesday, suffered an avulsion fracture, and is...