They Say It's My Birthday...

 

 It was my birthday this week. It is interesting being closer to 50 now than 40. I'm not really bothered by it. Maybe that is because I don't physically or mentally feel like I've reached that point. I joke that I don't feel grown up and responsible like other people seem to me to be. It somehow always seemed like it would take a very long time to reach my late 40's, when I was younger, but it's funny how I seemed to have gotten here a lot faster than previously imagined.
I kept having to actually remind myself that it was my birthday. There was still homeschool to do, cello lessons for Myles, dance lessons for Elsa, etc. No rest for the birthday girl. It was kind of like every other day, except for presents 😁

I wanted one picture to document my birthday.

 

However, Rhaevyn, Aeva, and Elsa had their mind set on a photo shoot of sorts. There was a lot of laughter involved and some sweet compliments. The sun was really bright!
They were so cute to do it:

 Also, for my birthday, I painted my fingernails and toenails........blue was in the cards:

 

 

 
I got this quilt all cut out and laid the pieces out so I could see what, if anything, I wanted to rearrange or change. I think I may change the squares in the corners. There is something about them that is just not sitting right with me. I really like the colors though. Joann's was having a great sale on batting........60% off!! What a deal! Plus Aeva had a coupon for me to use. I got enough batting for at least four quilts.

I've got to finish the monkey quilt! I've put it off long enough. Then I have at least two cut and ready to sew together, and four other quilts are waiting to be cut out. Busy, busy, busy. My quilter said she would help me get these done, and I'm really so grateful for that. 

Rhaevyn was sweet to make me a sugar cream pie that I could eat. She was very skeptical, but I was extremely confident, that it would work and be edible. Rhaevyn won on the outcome. I ended up just making myself some dark chocolate cheesecake mouse, and then on the way home from dance lessons I picked up cupcakes for everyone else. The kids just could not fathom having my birthday without a treat, candles, and singing happy birthday to me.

The kids were sweet to do little things for me all day and even gave me some sweet gifts....

Aeva wrote me two poems that she typed out and illustrated. She also got me these cute sticky notes. I use a lot of sticky notes.

Rhaevyn gave me her rose perfume (she is allergic to it) and some awesome headphones. I'm so excited about the rose perfume because it's my favorite, and they don't make it anymore.

Here I am trying the headphones out. I was using my phone as a microphone and singing to the kids. It was making them laugh.

Elsa made my bed so prettily.

Rainbow of peppers for pizza minus the crust for dinner.

Myles's experiment:

 Wednesday morning, bright and early, I went back in to have a nice clean margin made/taken on my knee. It went a lot quicker than the first round, and I didn't feel sick this time. That was a positive. I came home and put some ice on the incision. Molly assumed her position.

 
 

That afternoon I took Elsa to her violin lessons. I hung out in the car with my legs up, ice pack, and made mother's day cards.

I was feeling well until one in the morning. My knee was too painful to get back to sleep. Thursday was probably the worst day. By Friday it was feeling better, although it was not looking like it was on the upwards swing. Monday I get the stitches removed.



Don't forget to visit Aeva's blog here; she has a new posting:
https://ppillowbook.blogspot.com/2019/05/there-and-back-again.html


Myles had a western swing dancing youth activity this week. He wanted Rheavyn to come, and she was asked, by those hosting it, to come help. They had a great time, and Rheavyn said Myles was an excellent dance partner. Apparently, he was brave and asked several young ladies to dance.

Elsa had a mother daughter tea to attend, but it was the day my knee was not doing well. Aeva was excited, and willing, to be able to attend in my place.They both dressed up and had a lot of fun.
Meg and Elsa were playing together, and this was Meg's dress up outfit:

The other night, as I had my leg up with ice, I took these photos of Molly. She was asleep, but her mouth was open enough to see some of her teeth. I must have been really tired because I laughed so hard I had tears.

At this point I was laughing so hard I woke her up.

Two Celebrations in one week.............my birthday aaaannnndddd Mother's Day!!

I'm so blessed to be able to celebrate this special day with these wonderful and awesome human beings who remind me constantly how very blessed I am to be their mother. Love these guys to the end of the immense and expansive universe and back!!🚀

It's so hard to get everyone to smile and look in the right direction at once, especially when you only have a few minutes for pictures; plus we were never quite sure when Chris was actually pressing the button to take the picture. I'll take what I can get though 😀

 

 

 Plus I got a cute little picture of these two best buds at church wishing me a happy mother's day 💗

Rhaevyn made me a sweet card and got my favorite coconut candy.

**I'm currently in the kitchen with Chris listening to all the kiddos in Myles's room; they are listening to classical music, talking, laughing, and someone just said "pass the glue." I wonder what they could be making???

Chris made me an awesome Mother's Day card and then danced with me "Fred Astaire" style to Dream, Moonlight Serenade, and Moonglow. It was wonderful!! And he also folded four baskets of laundry for me. That was heavenly 👼

Myles made dinner for everyone so that I didn't have to😊

Elsa and Aeva gave me their cards at dinnertime. The cards were full of love and sweet words 💕

 Rhaevyn painted rocks this weekend while Aeva painted a cute little birdhouse and her pen jars (Nutella jars).

 

 

That was our fun filled week!

Happy May

 It's been a bit of an adjustment with the girls home. It is amazing how much life and routines have changed since they've been gone. It is also an adjustment of parenting because while we still have house rules, etc., they are now adults and have had some independence, and my role is not to parent them like I do the other three. The girls have unpacked as much as they can. There are still boxes by the door, and I feel that the house is a bit chaotic just because I feel in chaos when things don't have a place and there is clutter. I was reminded, on a girls' night out, that this is for a short time, and I need to enjoy the time I have with Rhaevyn and Aeva this summer while they are home. I need to stop worrying about the boxes or chaos. Rhayvn, Aeva, Elsa, and I went to Craft Warehouse Saturday night and then to Winco. While we were driving we were all singing and laughing together to the music we were listening to. It was absolutely wonderful, and I just wanted to freeze that moment in time.

Also this week:

I'm working on two quilts and finished one.
Finished:

 work in progress:

I just sketched this one out and am getting the squares ready:

 Aeva brought back a little gift for everyone. She brought Myles back a hammock, which he loves. We were all laughing about this as he kept flipping himself over in it.

I had to run to the pharmacy at Fred Meyer, and I got side tracked looking at fingernail polish. What did Myles do while I was preoccupied with polish colors????
He found some back scratchers.  He tried to shake hands with Rhaevyn. We were in stitches. He can be such a ham!

Rhaevyn was giving Meg a lesson in Hangul, Korean writing.

I made some chocolate mousse using Swerve powdered sweetener, cocoa powder, cream cheese, Lily's dark chocolate chips, and a dollop of whipped cream. It was divine!

Chris has completed all his training and classes and is now ready to start on "the line" at work.

I have started making a list of all the little miracles and tender mercies I'm seeing in our lives and my list keeps growing weekly. Elsa was blessed with a scholarship from Clan Lindsay that will pay for three months of her dance lessons, and she's had different family members that have stepped in to help with her registration for her next competition and three moths of dance lessons. We feel truly grateful and blessed!!

On another note, we had a Relief Society activity this week on putting color into family history. It was a fun activity. At the end we all turned on our Family Search app to see who we might be related to at the activity. I found 11th, 12th, and 13th cousins. I even found that I'm 10th cousins with our bishop. I was telling our bishop that I thought it would be fun to do this at church some Sunday. He opted for doing it at Curry Night, which is held once a quarter on Fast Sunday. That just happened to be yesterday. He gave a prize to the two people most closely related. I found out yesterday morning that Chris and I are 10th cousins, and I also found about 12 other people I'm related to at Curry Night. Some might not think much of it, being that far removed, but I get super excited. First, second, third, or 13th cousins...............it's all the same to me!

And on that note, we are off to the start of another new week. School work is winding down and being officially completed for the school year. We are looking forward to summer break. Wishing you all a happy first official full week of May 😊