The Next Chapter

A QUICK few months... and Can I go back...just for a hot second??? Just for a minute? 

Minnie was TERRIFIED to say the LEAST but she was READY! I booked her with a driving instructor at 12:00 on Wednesday for a refresher , (which happened to be an early release, so leaving a couple minutes early was no biggie....) and her test was at 3:00. She told NOT ONE of her friends and asked that we do the same. 

Husband took 1/2 a day off because she wanted her Dad...*melt* and she asked Mimi if she could borrow her car for the test. I LOVE that she LOVES the Scooby! :) 

She came back after about 12 minutes and we could tell she was holding back the smile.... 

SHE PASSED!!! She is now a licensed errand runner and uber for her sister! Hooray! 

Oh my HEART... this went SO fast....

They left right before we did to return Mimi's car together and hang out with her before taking Husband's truck and meeting us for Miss B's step-up night at....THE HIGH SCHOOL.....Waaaaaaaaaaa

I don't know HOW MANY TIMES Minnie has heard me say how scared I am that my entire heart is in a scary vehicle... but I know she is cautious and alert and READY for this next chapter of "leaving"....

I do sorta hate that that's the goal though.... 

 

Randoms

Nursery on Sunday....she wasn't grouchy about this....

National Puppy Day...yes please. 

One of my fav visitors at school on Friday... crazy she drives herself...

and my FAV Friday Night Craziness.... happy girl! :)

FUN Friday

Watching Miss B play volleyball is just SO FUN! They have improved SO much as the season has gone on and it's just been SO much fun to watch! 

They won ALL FOUR matches on Wednesday and she scored SO many points!!!

Who knew middle school volleyball would be standing room only to watch!? So MUCH FUN!!!

So proud of her!!!

 

Weekend Away

It was BACK to Moosehead for Husband AND Minnie... she was SO sad to miss last year and was thrilled to be BACK!!!

Kicked off Thursday afternoon with a match for MC... pic sniped by one of her friends... she's on the left :) 

and we went home to play Jeopardy and eat Publick House! YUM!

Friday I was off from work and Do-Do sent this picture!

Miss B and I got ready and headed on an adventure!!! I had some errands to run and one of them included a drop off at Goodwill.. it dawned on me that she had never been to Reilly's bakery....Soooooo I parked in front of the theater... she was COMPLETELY confused until we turned to cross the street and she saw the big sign! WIN WIN for Miss B! Girl loves a bakery.... 

Bonus surprise....we walked in and there behind the counter was one of her very favorite teachers... 2nd grade Mrs. Randall... on the exact day... 6 years later (Friday, March 13, 2020) that schools closed and Mrs. Randall started zooming in our home.... I WISH I had snapped a picture when she came out behind the counter to give Miss B a hug and Miss B was taller than her!

stole this pic from Minnie's insta... LOVED it... 

and on Friday night Miss B and I watched CJ's SkillsUSA awards ceremony online... it was LOONNGGGGG....

but the fact that he WON def. helped!! :) Soooooo PROUD of him!!! Pic courtesy of Miss B because I was racing all around the house looking for the charger because my phone  was going to die!!

Happy I didn't miss these pics though!!

SO PROUD!

Speaking of proud! Minnie send me this!! Whoop whoop fish on!

Love them!!!

In cleaning up traps on Saturday afternoon Husband let Minnie snag this flag... at least she got ONE... :)

Miss B and I did lots of deep couch sitting on Saturday, (I did run to Walmart) and enjoyed our home (and dog)

On Sunday we had nursery... LUCKY us!!!

I wasn't mad about this...

and neither was Miss B :)

Husband and Minnie were home unpacking when Miss B and I got back from groceries! Hooray! I jumped into the kitchen to make food for our Irish potluck at work (Monday) and Miss B had been begging for yeasty rolls since I grabbed this butter a few weeks ago...

SO happy they were able to get back to northern Maine together again doing their favorite thing together with friends (and family). But SOOOOO HAPPY they are HOME! 

 

Friday Flashback

 Minnie and Husband are away for an ice fishing weekend. THIS was yesterday wasn't it? 

and couple of my VERY FAVORITE "ice fishing" pictures taken by "Mrs. Guinny"

Wacky? Wednesday

I do a lot of editing with my pics before I post them...but when I looked back at these I was chuckling... 

1st of all... I HAD just gotten home with Minnie from the grocery store and said child could not WAIT to tap into making her own blizzard.... hence the rotisserie chicken on the counter... I hadn't had time to pick it and put it in a container. Oatmeal creme pies that needed to go downstairs to be packed for Minnie's weekend away coming up....and peep the fact that we STILL HAVE OUR GARLAND UP and it's BEEN UP for going on 5 months!!!!

I have actually attempted to take it down and put it back in the basement but my Christmas loving Miss B refuses!! HAHAHAHAHA! PLEASE no judgement.... YOU try saying "no" to Miss B!

and then I saw this guy... peeping "nice in case" Minnie was to drop ANYTHING he might think was tasty... little begger. 

 

The LONG Weekend Report

That started on Thursday!!!

Miss B had a match but it was over an hour from my school so I KNEW by the time I drove there after dismissal I would miss most of it. BOOHISS! 

Thank goodness for Husband and Minnie (for sniping the shots) :) They kept me in the loop!

She said she did great and even SPIKED IT! WHOOHOO!

I mean I wouldn't mess with two 5'10" 8th grade girls! :)

On Friday we started with a 2 hour delay... that then turned into a full on SNOW DAY. The 4 members of the Mouse House were SO UPSET. This pushes us to the END OF JUNE! 

BUT.... it meant that the gals Dr appt could get moved UP so they were not late for their Friday night plans of going to the USM women's basketball game... peep Minnie's face about GOING to the Dr and poor kid had to get a vaccine. Bummer. BUT... it was the LAST one....until college. What? Like WHAT EVEN?

Husband and I snagged a date afternoon/evening, Mexican food YES PLEASE, while the gals were at the bball game. On Saturday USM played again so Minnie went with Abbey and slept over. She met us at church and OFFERED TO COME GROCERY SHOPPING WITH ME! HIP HIP! Makes me WHOLE day when my gals wanna come with... add in some sunshine and fun party shades... it was a pretty spectacular 60 min round trip! :)

When we got home we were dying to try the new immersion blender I snagged at Marshall's the day before. Gals decided to make their own "Blizzards" with heath bar and Reese's pb cups... everything was GREAT....

UNTIL Minnie tried to do the tip the Blizzard upside down trick and her ENTIRE ice cream treat dumped into the sink. Oh.my.word. All FOUR of us were laughing SO hard....

speaking of laughing... we randomly stumbled across this free 7 day app we could install where you can play a few games... one of them is name that artist and song with a LOT of different genres... you use your phone as your buzzer and it was HYSTERICAL!

We all loved playing Jeopardy together and laughed SO MUCH this weekend! It was so fun!!!

Which one is naughty-er? The one who CALLED him on the couch or the one who IS ON THE COUCH!

GREAT weekend with a bonus day at the beginning!