things that made my year 2023 by KJB
- Olaf and Smolaf our snowmen.
- Chocolate taste testing.
- Rodeo night at kids night out.
- Shooting buckets on the floor of Millet.
- All the kids who gave me hugs when I volunteered at school.
- A Harry Potter Birthday crafting party.
- Spring break stay-cation and discovering “gummy teeth”.
- Jones delight in making the travel hockey team.
- Learning to use Rise360 holy cow was it simple after using other authoring tools.
- Gus Gus sightings.
- Visiting Thomas Dambo trolls.
- When a friend drops off anti-nausea meds for my daughter who was getting sick all night.
- Auntie Kathleen got married and I gave a toast I might have cried.
- Jones goes to sleepover camp for first time me being nervous him not.
- Thea’s desire to help me paint a “Muriel” it is so hard to let go of control but also so rewarding.
- Seeing jones make new friends at hockey school and seeming so much more mature.
- Reading a book while my kids at at the pool independently.
- When my little sister is having a baby.
- The number of compliments I got on Thea and Is matching dresses for Kelly’s wedding.
- When Jones said “this art installation isn’t so bad it’s cool” at Paso Robles field of lights
- Playing pool at the Aloft.
- Having Jones tell me he was “sad camp was over”
- The wind and the sun at Half moon bay.
- Thea deciding to try out for a play and contemplating if she should sing “my lipstick is popping” or “Jolene”
- End of summer neighborhood sleepover.
- Barbie movie. Hi Barbie!
- Impromptu pool party at Natasha’s.
- Practice walks.
- New pink moccasins.
- School supplies.
- Cheerful greetings during RAH cart.
- Thea trying something new being a Jungle Bush in Jungle Book.
- Orange whippy dip
- Jones first bengals game.
- Jones top golf hockey swing.
- Halloween skate with football player and zombie figure skater.
- Carpool!!
- Practice Chicken dinner with all the mom friends.
- Friend pumpkin patch
- Viking ship ride at dusk.
- Icy cold halloween.
- Audiobooks
- Good markers.
- Perry Park hockey with friends and family.
- Jonesy writing a speech to give his hockey team to motivate them.
- My kids carving their own pumpkins.
- Thea’s moment being picked as cheer captain.
- Jones comforting his teammates as they lost the playoff game.
- Airplane shoot off at Louisville Science Center.
- The giant world at the pool.
- When the kids think the Cirque du Solieil will be boring and then see it and think it’s awesome!
- Thanksgiving break sleepless water park trips.
- Cheese sample day at Costco.
- Thanksgiving at a friends.
- Watching the hawk that visited the tree outside my work window.
- Doughnuts at dawn.
- Thea joining in at the winterfest lights parade at Kings Island.
- Making crafts with my niece and nephew.
- Mini van pizza and Christmas light displays.
- Christmas nachos with smoked meat by Joe.
- Jonesy joining us to play games while the kids play downstairs.
- When my friend text and ask me to take her to church on Christmas Eve.
- When your friend saved you from throwing a baby shower in burger king
- Baby shower for lita and wolfie.
- 45 beaver signal.
- 4 of 5 siblings being in Oxford.
- Multiple conversations in the beechpoint haus living room.
- Getting complemented on my cup holders.
- Finishing not one but 3 quilts in 2023.
- Jonesy sliding me notes while I am on conference calls.
- Pools sooooo cold you can’t dip your toes in and the company on the pool deck.
- “Fancy” dresses with Thea on new years Eve
