spring outfit

Its not that springy,but its only 50' right now going up to 60' so I am not going to freeze too much. I am not loving this shirt at all, but this is my first time wearing this skirt and I only have so much that will match it. I will most likely not wear this combo again, but it will do for trips to Goodwill, a New Age store and to drop the kids at a sleepover.

Whole outfit silk pieces all from Goodwill.
Belt Target
Boots:Baretraps via GW

and the outfit

For some reason this one got deleted on my last post. My Merrells were not a good choice to wear to the very muddy park today and the mud soaked through them. Ewww,so the socks. I was dressed for the park and taking pictures comfortably,not fashion so much.

park

This week has been mid 70's everyday and I am loving it. Today we went to the park. The waterfall was moving pretty fast with all the rain last night.

Found this "eye"

"I love you" was carved so long ago it stretched out

I don't know...

Several people have asked me if I still have a homeschool blog. I don't anymore, I just dropped it one day .

I am trying to decide if I should start another as I am not feeling the fashion lately.

I'll try for a while and see how it goes....

Today we had to wake up early as the girl had an ortho. appointment. Good news is she might gets her braces off months ahead of schedule. After that we hit up Aldi and got a tank of gas for phase 2 of the day.

The oldest got up at 6:30 and cranked out his major school work by 9ish. He works on designing video games the rest of his free time or reading.

As the girl is still on concussion lockdown, she is not doing anything taxing like reading or math. She is scrapbooking and doing a few easy classes like acting and piano, but that is it. She goes back for her next impact test next week or something so that will determine when she is off the "don't do anything" schedule. It has been brutal as she is reading right now and I have to stop her. Once her headache goes away(21 straight days) she will be able to do more. Have I mentioned concussions suck?

Phase 2 of the day gave me 45 minutes at home before oldest and I left for a fieldtrip at the gunsmith school. I had not idea such a place even exsisted,but for my gun loving son and his friends it was a "YES" before they even heard anything else. Funny because the moms are the Buddhist, yoga types in our group. Anyway, we get to the place and its pouring rain. WE go in, get a little talk, take a tour and get a Q&A session where basically me and another mom asked the questions while the boys just sat there. The school is over 20K for 16months. Son said it was cool, but decided he was not interested in that for a career. I did point out it wasn't a high paying career anyway, so I am pleased he decided it might be cool for fun, but not his first choice.

By the time we got home it was dinner making time(for me) and the boys played video games while the girl did whatever .(I think play with the cats?)

I hit the store and got the girl more scrap book supplies and she just now was illegally writing again so now she has another headache. Sigh, never ending with the "stop reading, stop writing!". Its hard when that is what you love to do and you really cannot do anything thinking for long.

Tomorrow is the easiest day of the week with just fencing in the evening. My baby turned 10 yesterday, so we had a lunch out with his best friend and dinner out with us while also squeezing in swimming and acting lessons in between all the fun.
The kids will catch up on some stuff the have not had time for.

I found out the swimming class is actually 2 mornings a week at a place 50 minutes from me. This means we have to leave early , do the swimming lesson, then go straight to playgroup, then fencing on tuesdays. Weds. are the same but replace with acting in the evening.(and hockey when girl is cleared). None of these places are by me or each other. I just try to remember my little one needed the swimming and with his best friend and a time we can work with means I'll suck it up for 8 weeks. Its gonna be a long 8 weeks...

Happy Mardi Gras!

I turned up the bright wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too much on this picture,but I was trying to cheer myself up so go with it. That hat is actually purple, not blue and its a Mardi Gras hat.

This is also one of my fav. outfits and since we had an appointment at the concussion dr.I was going for comfort. Concussion news pretty good: She did well on 3 of the 4 tests. Got a -1 on one of them and dr. said that is normal. She is on the "do nothing " schedule and bored.

I will be heading out for alcohol to celebrate my sad Mardi Gras soon. We lived close to New Orleans a long time ago and we will always have our own little thing.

tough going around these parts

Yesterday my daughter got a concussion in her hockey game. After a trip to the ER she is ok with orders to do nothing at all until headache goes away. Her playoffs are next weekend she is is hoping dr. will clear her by then. Yeah, I don't see that happening. She is day to day depending on headache so I am glad she heard the dr. say that and for once I cannot be blamed if she is banned from playoffs.

So in addition to that, my broken tailbone is slowly getting better. Sitting in the ER for 3 hours was a bit much on it, but I tried to stand as much as possible once we were back in a room(this is Chidlren's hospital,private rooms for everyone in emergency.) but it was the most sitting I have done at one time .

I am making a big pot of fancy chili and taking it easy today. Tuesday is the one day this year our homeschool group planned to go roller skating and now the girl and I are both out of the skating. I do love me so old school wooden floors and disco balls at the rink.

I didn't even get dressed today so no fashion pics today.

I got dressed,woohoo

I won't pretend I haven't been wearing pajamas 24/7 unless I have to see people I know. It was sunny yesterday and semi warm for winter so I slapped on some real clothes. I'm sick and I have a broken tailbone, so do not expect miracles. Yes, I use that crazy Eiffel tower tote bag as a purse. And you can see my purdy new car/suv/whatever in the background.