Friday!!!!!!

[mae0111]

What’s the weekend look like??

[mae0111]

Kids had Field Day today, followed by an ice cream truck party at a home near school.

DD1 plays early tomorrow, then we are heading to our neighbor’s graduation party. It will be humid and in the 90’s, so we may not stay long. It’s an open house so no set hours. Then I imagine we will swim.

Sunday DD2 has her last game, and then her coach is leaving. He’s sad to leave the kids, and all the parents are bummed. Then free - so probably more swimming since it will be so hot.

Last week if school next week, and so much happening. It will be busy for sure!

[twinmomma]

We have a jam packed weekend in the crazy heat!

Tomorrow we're going to watch a lacrosse game at Gillette. It's a haul to get there, but it's what beau wanted to do for his birthday and it gives the kids a chance to see a game there since we'll never afford Patriots tickets for all of us. They're so excited to see the Pats stadium, they could care less about the game itself.

Sunday we're hosting a cookout at our house for beau's birthday party. I'm a little worried about getting back tomorrow night and then dealing with the party prep. But I'm trying really hard to be calm about it. Stuff like this totally causes anxiety attacks for me because exH would do literally nothing and I'd be so stressed out getting everything ready and caring for the kids. I know beau will do all the food prep and I can handle cleaning up the house, so it's much less stressful. But it'll still be a crazy day.

[supertrooper1]

It's been beautiful all week but it's supposed to rain this weekend. My parents are camping about an hour away so we'll probably go visit them at their campsite. We've thrown a few other ideas out for this weekend but we're not sure yet what we'll do.

[sandandsea]

DS2 has circus day today at school and dressed up like a lion. He looked adorable and was so excited this morning. I love 4 year olds. They’re such a fun age.

[sdlaura]

We were supposed to leave today to spend the weekend at a fancy hotel in the desert with our two other former teaching pod families. We planned it for this weekend because the two other families both have kids in travel soccer most other weekends, and my parents are in town so we could leave the two little boys, and the hotel rates weren't crazy expensive this weekend. But since DD made all-star softball, she now has two softball games tomorrow and needs to be there 9:45-2, and then she has a 9 am game Sunday, and needs to be there at 8 am. The desert is two hours away.

So we changed our reservation to just Saturday night. DH is going to take DS1 tomorrow morning while I take DD to her softball games and my parents take the littles. DH and DS1 should get to the hotel by noon, and I'm hoping DD and I get there by 4 and still get to have a fun night. Then she and I have to get up and leave at 6 am Sunday I think the kids will still think it's amazing. And honestly getting to just watch DD's games without supervising any of her little brothers should be relatively relaxing too. But probably not as relaxing as sitting by the pool with a frozen drink at a fancy hotel

[mae0111]

Does anyone remember our kitchen contractor debacle? He tore it out, disappeared, COVID hit, and I had no kitchen from mid-Feb until and of May or so during that mess?

So we sued and we won all of our money back, expenses, and fees. He never responded to any summons, didn’t show up to the hearing, had avoided everything completely. He literally has nothing, so we will likely not get anything. But the sheriff is required to serve the judgement and try to get him to pay before we apply to the state fund for reimbursement.

The sheriff served the WRONG company at the shady contractor’s address. Like, instead of Bob’s Contracting, they served Steve’s Landscaping. So now he knows this is coming and he will dodge the sheriff, which will further delay any settlement.

🙄

[waverly]

We got a text that our neighbor's band is playing outside at a restaurant Sat night, so we probably will go there. Sunday is a pool play date. Saturday morning, the kids and I have planned to vegetate and read books. They are super tired from their first week of camp so I figure planned time to do nothing which is my favorite thing to do on Saturday mornings (I am not a morning person, so chores etc. first thing is not my ideal).

[rere]

No open measures on my Accreditation site visit. Nothing but praise. Meaning, I dont have to work on vacation. Leaving for Clearwater, FL tomorrow. Hopefully many days of beach, eating, site seeing. I told the kids, all things, parasailing, boats, fishing are on the table. So hopefully a good week..

[186momx]

Plan is to strawberry pick Sunday as it has a less chance of rain. DD has a private lesson on Saturday. DH is golfing Saturday. We are dog sitting for the next 10 days so are now a 2 dog household. Everyone is getting along but B the dog we are watching thinks DH is her own private play toy and won't leave him alone which I find very funny.

IEP meeting today...phonological processing disorder which is in the same category as auditory processing. Psych said that the testing showed DD in the average category but she as she observed her doing the testing DD was able to work it so she got an average score. The paragraph she had to write was 1 word over the minimum and was indented and had correct punctuation so it counted but the paragraph in itself was something a incoming 2nd grader would have done so no it wasn't average for a 4th grader.
They did a lot of debating on if she needed services or if she could just continue to compensate by herself. My point was that we need to make sure she is successful in middle/high school and learn the tools now instead of later and that she shouldn't have to keep compensating. I got my way and she will be getting support. DD will be getting phonics help with the reading specialists and some form of writing help from the resource room. We are supposed to have another meeting after school gets going in the fall to see if what they are providing is helping or not. Hopefully that meeting will be in person because zoom IEP meetings suck.

[mustardseed2007]

sandandsea, circus day is the cutest thing I have ever heard!

[twinmomma]

Apparently we had a breakdown in communication about the cookout party today. I told people noon-ish since the kids all have their fun run at 5. Beau told some people 2-ish and others he just.... Didn't tell a time? He literally has no clue what time the neighbors will show up. I'm trying to just go with the flow but am freaking out that we have no idea what time various people are showing up, how are we going to plan for food to be done on time, etc, and have to make sure we kick people out in time to make it to trophy day at the fun run.

[mommyatty]

twinmomma- send a group text if you have cell numbers. Be here at noon. Or 2. Or whenever.

[waverly]

Last night was a fail. We got there and it was a different band. Turned out they weren’t playing after all and neighbor never told us.

[twinmomma]

mommyatty, I didn't have contact infor for some of the people he had invited, so had to just roll with it. It all worked out, but that kind of stuff sends my anxiety into overdrive.