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Cakes, Birds, and Walking Pads

November 21, 2025

Y'all my little bitty newborn baby turned 7 a few weeks ago. 



He has been so excited to be older, honestly I think he's just elated to age by one more day every day. Right now he love football. He is constantly on the go and crashes hard when he gets in bed at night. He is still a big ole Mama's baby though. 




I called his cousin my fake niece, so I guess I'll have to call Peyton my fake nephew lol! We got to see some of our college kids/family friends recently and Peyton had his pet birds with him. Funny enough Elliot wouldn't dare touch them, and he acts like he is so brave. Harrison though, he loved it and let them land in his hand to eat. Harry really likes animals. I guess we really can't expect much from Elliot, it hasn't been that long since he was afraid of stuffed animals. 




We moved the boy's KidStrong class to Monday afternoons, and it has been so much better for them. I think since they're already on the move, they don't mind going. Saturday was a bit like pulling teeth and they were both a little off with how they behaved in class, but neither of them wanted to leave the house on a Saturday. 

Recently they both got recognized in class. Harrison leveled up, and Elliot had class captain and the coach's award. 



This is so dumb, but I pulled out the walking pad and Honey was thrown off by it. She walked around me the entire time looking like I was involed in witchcraft. I kept moving, but not going, and that just wasn't right in that little puppy's brain. 



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40th Annual Natchez Balloon Festival

October 22, 2025

 Ideally, I'd like to come back home every year for the balloon festival, but it doesn't always work out. This year we managed to get in town, and have one really good day of balloons. 


Granted it was Friday morning, races happen on Saturday, but based on the past -- I had a feeling that Friday would be the day to see anyting. I was right. 




We started out bright and early on the Vidalia Riverfront. Balloons were supposed to launch from the bluff, but alas... that rarely happens. They ended up launching from the Vidalia airport, so we took off to see who was still setting up. 




I was nervous about what we would see, but it ended up being a good morning for it. 







If at any point int his blog post you wonder "Where is Harrison?" Just know that he hates heights, whether he's up high or the object is high -- so this was a bust for his excitement. He was over the whole ordeal and wanted Jeremy to take him home. 






After the morning launch, we headed to The Donut Shop. I kind of wish now that we had gone back at lunch and bought tamales as well. 






I thought the boys would be glued to this idea, they had a dog show where the dogs were doing the long jumps like you see on television competitions. 


It was beyond hot at this point, and several classes were on a field trip to this event, so the crowdedness wasn't that enjoyable. I really wanted to stay to see all the demos, but the heat was too much, so we headed off to lunch. 




It's funny what I do when Jeremy isn't with me vs. what I do when he is. This made me realize I'd never taken the man Under the Hill to lunch, so we settled in at The Camp. 




I had originally planned to bring Harrison to the balloon glow, but after the monring launch -- I wasn't going to waste the time. He happily stayed back with my mom while Jeremy, Elliot, and I wandered the festival grounds at Rosalie. 






How do y'all like that worried face? He said the balloons were too loud. 








It was a quick turn around trip - we got there Thursday night and headed back home Saturday after lunch. Just enough to see the balloons. 

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This Past Week

October 16, 2025

A week where all the activities feel like fall, but Louisiana weather never feels like fall. It's cooled down, but it definitely isn't in the range that has me jumping for joy. 


Elliot had his book character pumpkin project this week and we decorated for the book "There Was a Black Hole Who Swallowed the Universe." It looks less insane in photos than it does in real life. 




The neighbors chickens escaped yesterday and caused some excitement on our end as Jeremy locked up the dogs and captured it. Poor girl didn't realize what she was signing up for when she jumped the fence. 




Post homecoming parade (which I hope someone got a photo or video of us running down the road like lunatics) the kids pulled the magnetic tiles as a great way to play in such a way as to delay bedtime. Peep Elliot still wearing the beads they threw at the parade, which he thinks are real gold. 




Also, I think this was all a cross between homecoming parade tired mixed with trying to pack to go to Natchez tired - but let me leave for work a second past the time I'm supposed to and I'm catching a bridge. I managed to walk into my classroom literally one minute before the kids. 




In the same thread of thinking - being tried and making an extra coffee works great while teaching... it does not work great while progress monitoring oral reading fluency. This was not the time to sit still lol! 




It's homecoming at the kids school this week, that school is also tied to our church, which means we get rolled. The perks of being married to the youth pastor, yearly toilet paper before my kids even hit middle school lol! The boys get such a kick out of it, on the second night they went outside to surprise the girls that were rolling and ended up helping roll their own house. 


The fun promptly ended on the second day after school of toilet paper pick up. Harry declared this to be rude. Honestly, they're old enough to earn their keep. 




I snapped a quick picture of the buttons I had one of my parents make my own children's teachers this year for homecoming. It's from Les Vues Designs on Facebook. After I got a really cute one for the school I teach at, I had to have some made for the kids school. I just wish I had also gotten one for myself. 



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No Plants Were Watered (The Shrubs Are Filing Complaints)

October 13, 2025

After a gloriously wet summer, we've moved into a dry as can be late summer/fall. This has been terrible new for any plants anywhere near my realm of responsibilty. The little shurbs are hanging on for dear life. 


In a moment of genius, and a need to dead head some flowers, I put the boys on the task. The following photos are just evidence that two little boys can water each other and nearly everything in the yard except a shrub desperate to find water before giving up on the final stages of its life.  




I can say that the potted flowers were watered well, because I did it myself. Elliot was watered quite well. You can classify him under self watering. 



Harrison was not watered whatsoever, and the plants in his charge were also lightly watered, as a wasp came out and he then threw the waterhose across the yard. 


Spraying me alone. 


I went to the backyard to grab clippers and came back out the front door only to be sprayed once again. 




I've now gained the utmost sympathy for my father, who for many years I snuck up on and sprayed with the water hose every single chance I got. I can't name a single time he washed his car that I wasn't also chasing him with a waterhose while he hollered. 

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Just a Plain Jane Week

October 6, 2025

I wish I took more photos. 


This phase of life seems to have my camera out less and less, I don't even bother with the phone camera half the time. I don't know if it's being busier than I was when the boys weren't in school, or honestly what. Lack of drive to blog? Or just a general shift in how media is consumed. 


Regardless, here's what I did document from the weekend. 




Harrison got the Coach's Award at KidStrong this week. 


He was pretty proud of himself. KidStrong has been such a great outlet for burning energy and having to practice their listening skills. 




This is probably a partial reason as to why I'm brainfried - last week was homecoming. 


Homecoming in the tiny town I teach in is on aother level, it makes the 4th of July look mildly acknowledged every year. 


Kids are out rolling houses all week, then there is the parade and bonfire, followed up on Friday with the schools having an open house for visitors to come by and two pep rallies. I really intended to go to the game, but I was so sweaty and dead after all the pep rallies I just stayed home and rotted on the couch. 




One big perk of anything deemed a holiday here -- is the teacher treats. Some sweet parents sent cakes, candy apples, and puppy chow on Thursday. It definitely made for a much more exciting time of progress monitoring everyone on their Reading fluency.




Other than that I mopped a bunch (two boys and two dogs) and cleaned like crazy in preparation for the air purifiers coming in, we went to a party with the adult Sunday School class we attened when we aren't teaching a youth one, and my D-Group met to discuss what we studied this week. 

Just a Plain Jane week.

 

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This Weeks Meals

September 18, 2025

Let's dive into another subject I haven't been too inventive with in a long time. Again, I blame the phase of life. I'd give my left leg for a house managed these days. If someone else would clean and cook I could live easy. 


 

Thursday | Grilled Porkchops, Chopped Salad Kit, and Baked Potatoes

Friday |  To be determined - it's 5th Quarter so I can girl dinner - I'm temped to make this

Saturday |  Eating Out 



Tuesday | BBQ Pork, Slaw, & Rolls

Wednesday | Sam's Club Chickfila Knock Off Nuggets and Fries.

Lunch for the Week | This Soup (it's funny the last time I blogged my meals this is what I made) 
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