Week
#2 Review
Hey,
look at that! Two weeks in a row! Again, in no way is this going to continue.
Stop your crazy thinking right there.
This
week has been a bit more ho-hum overall, but here are a few highlights.
The
most fun thing is that Brice attended a pre-release party for the Magic: The
Gathering Ixalan set. He got to go at midnight and play cards for four
hours-ish and just have fun.
The
most exciting and life-changing thing for our family is that all four children love
to sleep together—and Ammon slept through the entire night three of the last
four nights (the other night, he only woke once, briefly, and once I settled
him down, he went back to sleep). This really is life-changing stuff. For a lot
of reasons, none of our children have easily slept for long stretches as
babies. And that has been fine, up to a point, but we’re so happy to see that
he is growing to love sleeping with the siblings.*
We
also rearranged a lot of furniture! You know how much I love rearranging
furniture! This time it was in the conservatory (which is just our fancy and
completely incorrect name for the third bedroom). This is where the kids have
taken to sleeping, but it was just jammed with junk and furniture (ever since
we had to move everything out of the living room and I discovered how much
happier I was with very little stuff in the living room). But now it’s looking
much better.
Also,
I hung curtain set #3 of 4. And it turns out my DIY skills are even worse than
I realized. It was not my favorite experience ever, and it’s possible I cried.
But hey, at least I did my math right when deciding spacing of curtain clips.
And also, it’s done. Now onto set #4...
We’re
doing a 31-day read-aloud challenge where Coriel, Addra, and I each read aloud
for ten minutes. It has been good motivation and practice for Addra—I can
already see that she is improving in her skills. She’s our little daydreamer,
though; she’d definitely prefer to be read to instead of doing the reading.
Still, she’s doing great. (Coriel and I don’t actually need the practice, but
it’s a good reminder to me to actually spend time reading picture books with
the boys instead of just listening to longer books with the kids.)
Brice
and I are both learning Italian using Duolingo. He’s way ahead of me. I’m still
back here saying things like, “Io scrivo un libro” (at least it’s semi-true?).
We
started up co-op again. It was good and fun to be back. There were also martial
arts, babysitting, and a branch potluck. Overall, a nice week. I feel so very
blessed to have this life that we live. Even when things are rough, we have
each other’s love and the love of the Lord, so I’d say the balance is strongly on
the side of life being awesome.
P.S.
No pics at the moment. Because reasons.
* This whole topic of sleep is maybe
something I’ll write about in greater detail at some point, though I’m likely
to offend or annoy or cause eye-rolling in probably every single person who
reads it, so ... maybe not?
