Early AMs and Later Nights

On Monday AM Miss B and I hit the road for the big city at 6:30... she tagged along with me to the audiologist as my emotional support :) Back story in 2017 Minnie was at school and Miss B and I went to my first audiology appointment. I thought my ears were blocked. They did the full hearing test so I went into the little room with the glass window and my 4 year old sat right outside the door (less than 2 feet from me but I was in a soundproof room) and they began the test. I was completely fine until the woman on the other side of the glass put a piece of paper in front of her face and continued to talk. I couldn't hear anything because I couldn't read her lips. I burst into tears in that little room and when she finally opened the door the first thing my sensitive Miss B saw was a very upset Momma... 

Fast forward a couple of years... Husband came with me...same woman... not very kind... said to Husband she needs the hearing aids but this is not a decision you can make for her. She has to do it on her own. Um... excuse me... sitting here! 

Fast forward to 2020... everyone in masks. Nuff said?

Fast forward to this fall...the things I THOUGHT I heard vs. what my gals were ACTUALLY saying... while comedic... was frustrating for my family. It's a very lonely thing to not be able to be a part of jokes, hear group conversations in bleachers and miss things at work. Miss B started singing a song about "all I want for Christmas is my Mom to get hearing aids"... YIKES. 

So I bit the bullet and made an appointment with my PCP to get yet ANOTHER referral because there was no way I was going back to the same place...I asked my "teacher of the deaf" and she suggested her favorite place of audiologists in the big city... they surprisingly had an opening on Monday at 7:30... hence the 6:30 leave time and not having to leave my principal for too long without any office staff....

Miss B did not know what she was in for (and in fact missed the memo that we were headed to the big city) but she was so sweet to go with me... albeit getting out of social studies and math class were big motivators :) We found our way to the shady side of Commercial street and had the NICEST receptionist and 22 year old audiologist. Ok. Maybe he wasn't 22 but DEF. younger than Do-Do.

 

I failed miserably as expected so he went through my "options" with us... and I let this pretty girl pick the color... beige, beige, beige or grey. She picked "champagne" :) of.course.she.did. Husband and I are going to chat through the options and we'll see where it goes. But so very VERY thankful for Miss B.

You know you work in the country when.... you are stopped by turkey traffic.

To finish off Monday night Miss B and I had hair appointments... that started at 3:30 and didn't have us home until after 8! Phew it took a long time to get us prettied up!

Tuesday after school I ran home to grab the girls so they could come to our Family Night at school to volunteer. The hours counted for 3 outta 5 of these girls... and they did a GREAT job with all the tiny people they worked with at their literacy and numeracy stations!! So proud! I came into work on Wednesday and MULTIPLE staff came up to tell me what a great job my girls did and how BEAUTIFUL they both are!!! *BLUSH*

Looking forward to a slower couple of days during our "time off"... phew it was a busy start to the week!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday (Miss B)

Love her.

 

The Weekend Report

 We kicked off Friday with Miss B's FINAL soccer game!!! And it was a FUN ONE TO WATCH especially since we came out with a W!

It was ESPECIALLY fun to have a full on fan club there watching her! (Missing the CountryRents)

Minnie's first and only sister's soccer game... so happy she was able to make it and so was Miss B!!!

Whew fall was a long but FUN season!! 

From here we split up... Miss B, Barks and I headed to grab some dinner while Minnie and Husband headed to the football game. The Boosters are doing a "new" thing now that if parents volunteer (32 hours per kid over 4 years) you kid gets to wear a cord at graduation. Course the kid's themselves only have to do 25 volunteer hours to graduate but parents...32 hrrrmm....

Photo courtesy of Feeney

A fun game for sure!

Photo courtesy of Feeney

and a WIN!!! This picture makes me laugh. Her team nickname is "Talls" and the girl she is getting ready to hug is "Smalls"... could not be MORE true!

Photo courtesy of Feeney

On Saturday Husband headed out bright and early to go golfing with this crew. Love them. I texted Do-Do and said "it's been a hot second... I'm gonna need a new pic"

So grateful they oblige :)

Miss B asked if Ally could come over...

and I brought Minnie down the hill to "work". Her first time as a center/only ref and she DID GREAT!!!

SO proud of my girl for taking the class, communicating with the assignor, working the games, managing her schedule and KILLING it out there as a ref! 

SO PROUD!

The Week in Rewind

On Wednesday Cerise came for a visit after the kiddos left and brought her very fresh and newest little love.... 

He came early but CAME PERFECT!

I honestly think she could come back to work right now and just bring him... I don't think anyone would notice... I mean we are in the KID BUSINESS....

Speaking of kid.... to finish off the season "someone" thought it would be a good idea to have the boys soccer team scrimmage the girls soccer team... I literally held my breath the.entire.game. Which was in fact a FULL GAME. 40 MIN HALVES AND EVERYTHING.

I do love this pic though... if you click on it, it should get bigger. You can TELL her swagger from here... she didn't care that the field was full of boys wearing PJ pants... she was taking them all down...

Of course they killed us... and it was the ONLY game they won the entire season....

Just not sure they REALLY needed to ring the Victory Bell after? I mean come on....you beat a team of GIRLS. Shouldn't you??

Minnie had fun and as always isn't that the goal? (Pun totally intended). She and Miss B enjoyed the friends, the potluck food and I walked Barks around the parking lot and Ubered everyone home when they were ready :)

Thursday Randoms

Work bathroom selfies for Tamarah with my 90's hair and outfit :)

Little sister club not minding on a day she gets a "F'Real" :)

The training room....I mean... post game/practice unwrap all.the.things.

My poor girls and their injured bodies...

and speaking of injuries... the bus driver the night Husband was hit worked with the golf boys to present this to him at their banquet on Monday night. Too funny!

Not My Words Wednesday

 

The Weekend Report

 Kicked off Friday twinning with my bud! Everyone laughed that we looked like Christmas but we know... she bleeds red and I bleed green ;) 

This memory showed up 5 years ago Saturday with the Flaggs putting an ankle brace on Minnie... she is STILL struggling with that same dang ankle... poor girl...

and speaking of poor girl... Sweet Miss B and her toes... and then getting stomped on by an 8th grader in a scrimmage....poor thing!

Saturday Husband and I did a date morning to Kittery so he could get his guns cleaned for free at KTP... it was a beautiful day for a ride... we came home and I got Minnie to the stadium for 1:30 so she could set up for Senior Night... and then play four hours of soccer... *insert eye roll* girl was TIRED by the end of the long night...

I thought her poster came out so cute! She did such a good job!

It was a fun surprise to see 3 outta 4 of our Dupes at the game. Miss B has missed her buddy now that she has transferred to OOB

Varisty played their HEARTS out and it came down to the last 26 seconds in OT... it was such a good game except for the loss.... proud of my 22 for working so hard the whole time! and LOVED high pony for game night ;)

Sunday after church and food planning and gathering Husband and I did some yard clean up and I found these guys... 70+ and sunny at the end of October... they are clearly confused but I am HAPPY! 

SO FUN!