21 - Ladies Night

The other day was “ladies night”.  Months ago thea heard on the radio about this magical time called “ladies night” at some bar where they have like $2 drink specials for all the ladies and she was like “mom we need to get all the ladies, get dressed up and go to ladies night.”  She wrote it on her bucket list and tonight was the night.  The girls got dressed up and they did their makeup.  I couldn’t recall the bar in question so we took them to Ainsley’s Cafe hoping we could sit on the water sadly it was raining but the “ladies” didn’t seem to notice.  thea insisted on steak which of course was like a 24 oz steak so she shared this with her friend and they still didn’t finish it.  Also thanks to my friend Sarah for coming with me so I didn’t have to make conversation with 7 year olds the entire time.

May Miles

May is long since gone but I forgot to tally the miles, so here’s a recap. 

In May I had 3 days over 5 miles and a few over 4.  I ended the month with 90.51 miles which isn’t exactly great clearly work days i need to make better efforts, but I will take it.  This brings the yearly total to 465.01.  

37 - Hockey School

He had such a good time at hockey school!  I am so glad he got to experience this.  He told me it was like a taste of college.  His high points were - having his own debit card, friends, dorm time, snack machines, the shooting speed thing, and having a candy table in his room.  Least favorites - early morning call times & losing all the scrimmages :(

4 - host an art club - shoe painting

We hosted an art wit club with our friends and painted shoes.  It was so fun to see everyone’s designs and different takes on painting shoes. If we did it again I’d have less paints and more mixing cups the kids seemed very interested in making their own colors and did even though we had similar colors already mixed.  Lol!

Thomas Dambo

We went with friends and saw the trolls.  

April Miles

In April I added 97.64 miles to the tally.  I did have several days where I didn’t wear my watch but I had 3 days where I walked 8+ miles so it helped keep it real.  This brings the yearly total to 374.5 hours, a little off the pace for 100/month but not the worst tally.  

Photo of shoes I painted at Kathleens bachelorette party I am leaning towards something similar in my office.  

I’m in my embrace the chaos and make it up as an go era.

It’s my I will get back to you on a date and time, yes I know still haven’t gotten back to you, but not because I don’t want to era. It’s my quick dinners and popcorn is a food group era.  It’s my running to and from practices era.  It’s my what’s this funk in the hockey bag era.  It’s my eight loads of laundry to fold era.  It’s my welcome to the mess era.  It’s my listen to all the audio books era.  It’s my half finished hobbies that I probably won’t resume in the next year.  It’s my living on a prayer in leggings and hoodie era.  It’s my I forgot about the party last minute cash gift era.  It’s my yes we went waaay over the screen time limits era.  It’s my your testing my patience stop back talking era.  It’s my singing too loudly in the car and embarrassing you era.  It’s my let’s watch all the musicals era.  It’s my listen to the 100 questions era.  It’s my pleeeeeaaaaase try this new thing you might like it era.

It’s my calling representatives about education, gun reform, abortion access and LGBTQIA+ right era.  It’s my watching school board meetings and worrying if my kids will get a good education era.  It’s my do we do enough to conserve our planet and save the bees, maybe I should have planted 2x as many native plants era.  

It’s my embrace the chaos and make it up as I go era. 

(From writing prompt I saw and wanted to do I think it was Ashley Gadd.  Photo from my lavender bush.) 

32 - finish a quilt

First finish in two years.  Year that’s right I have had years where I finished 10 quilts but 22 was a big dry spell for me.  I did work on various projects but nothing was finished.  This one I started and finished in a month it’s a baby quilt for my friends baby.  It’s bigger than it looks, as it’s almost official crib size. I love the amount of stripes in this one.  I keep buying striped fabric and I especially love red/white stripes.  The quilting is entirely freehand I wrote the babies name, mom, dad, love Katie, 2023, and more in the quilting although it’s hard to just identify.  It crinkled up so nice in the wash.  I did add a homemade tag where it says the babies last name on the front and <3 Katie on the back.  

46 - move raspberries

For the record I moved the raspberry bushes the other day.  I found that several of them were “hoppers”. Starting new plants from the other side of the vine right in my other flower bed.  See second picture.  

I am hopeful they all survive the move i gave them some plant food.  Over the winter they had really developed a good root base so I probably should have moved them back in the fall.  Although my friend with all the berry bushes seems to think they will spread quickly. 

24 Summit Park

One did my list was to visit Summit Park my sister has sung its praises and so we wanted to check it out.  My kids loved it they would love to go back when the water features are on too.  My kids especially loved their zipline.