I wasn't sure if the boys and I would be attending the 6th annual Mother/Son dance hosted my N.M. Parks and Rec. We didn't make it long last year, mostly because the timing is bad for us. It starts at 7:30pm and bedtime is 8:00 at our house. I don't really have a problem with extending bedtime to accommodate special events, but 1. they truly just can't hang long, and 2. staying up later doesn't equal sleeping in longer the next morning, and then they're just grumpy all day 😑. We did it anyway, though. I asked the boys if they wanted to go, before buying tickets, and Quinn said no, but Ash said yes. Obviously, I couldn't just buy a ticket for Ash, because I knew Quinn would change his mind. A few days later, he asked if he could still go, and I told him I already bought him a ticket. He was excited and started talking about what he was going to wear. I told him that events like this are special, and it would be nice if he would agree to wear dress clothes. He was all for it and ended up wanting to buy a suit 😂. Finding one to fit him wasn't easy because he's so thin, pants lengths are difficult to get right. Philip and I measured him and I chose the one that hit the most sizing categories. We got lucky with one that fit perfectly!
As soon as he got it, that's all he wanted to wear. I'm not surprised that it ended up being like another costume to him.
He even wore it to Sam's Club the weekend before the dance, but after that I told him he needed to let me wash it and then keep it clean. He was free to pretend play with it after the dance.
He got new dress shoes for the occasion, too, which he felt completed his sweatpants/t-shirt outfit 😂
Strep almost kept us from going, both boys ended up with it the week of. Quinn started it and Ash got it next. They were both medicated for long enough before the dance to not be considered contagious, so we were still able to go.
Ash told Quinn he looked like Boss Baby, and I told him he looked like his bodyguard 😂
Ash did not want to wear any fancy clothes, so he got a long sleeve black shirt to match his black sweatpants, and from far away, you could barely tell. I'm just happy he wore socks. He can always be counted on to have either zero, but not more than one sock on at any given time we need to leave the house. He may continue to only have that many once we’ve left, despite me telling him to wear them, if I don't remember to check 🤦🏻♀️.
I'm in a much better place mentally and physically this year than I was last, so shopping for a dress wasn't as painful a task as before. My dress wasn't super fancy, and I was still a little nervous about feeling underdressed, but the other moms seemed to tone it down this year, too, and no one really looked like they were going to their second chance prom.
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Our official photo from Frannie Herrick
Last year vs. This year
Our biggest transformation was my hair and our ability to better coordinate outfits
I've still been working out, and this week is number 4/5 of Beta round of Focus T25. If I could stop eating garbage, I'd be making a lot more weight loss progress, but I am getting much stronger.
Ash even joins me occasionally 😃
Im not sure if I’ve ever wanted a holiday to be over more than this Valentine’s Day 😂. Well, probably Christmas 🙄, but this was a very close second. No one wanted to make a Valentine box. No one wanted to pick out or sign their Valentines. I’m in camp Valentine’s Day Is A Stupid Consumer Holiday, so I really didn’t care, but unless they were going to skip school the days of their parties (they weren't), not doing them wasn’t an option. So we did them, but no one was happy about it 😂.
They both painted an oatmeal container, colored pictures of their chosen superheroes, and then cut them out and glued them on the containers.
On Valentine's Day, I heard the boys get up and go downstairs around 6:15am, but it didn't take long for Ash to come tell me that there was candy on the table, as if I wasn't the one who left it there 🤦🏻♀️. I didn't realize until he came a second time that they were waiting for me to come down before they ate it, or I would've told them to do it and leave me alone 😂. And Quinn is wearing that ninja suit in the pic because that's what he slept in 😆.
Philip made me the best homemade caramel ice cream and chocolate chip cookie ever 🤤
I bought them a sleep training clock because waking me up at the butt crack of down started to be Asher's norm. It goes red at bedtime-8:00pm and turns green at 6:45am, which is when my alarm is set on school days. It turns white at 6:25, which means "soon." I told them they're allowed to get up and go downstairs together whenever it turns white, but they're not allowed to get me unless there's a very good reason. Valentine's Day candy does not meet that requirement 😂.
This morning, I volunteered in Quinn's classroom and I made a craft with the kids. It was supposed to be for Valentine's Day, but we couldn't get it scheduled until this week. I had so much fun and the kids did, too, especially mine 🥰. He seems to really enjoy whenever I go in. I love doing it but I’m always so nervous and don’t sleep well the night before 🫠. I properly worry about all of the things that could go wrong on the days leading up to it, but there never seems to be a cap. It has gone extremely well both times. I told his teacher I'll plan to come back in and do a spring activity, so hopefully I can chill next time. The kids really loved making slime before, so we may do something else like that. Today we took photos with my Fujifilm Instax mini camera, and the kids decorated popsicle stick frames. I was excited to share my love of photography with them. If I'm going by my interests, maybe next time I should have them plant something. They already work on reading, that will cover most of my favorite hobbies 😂.
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