Another Monday.
Feels a lot like fall out there these days. Sucks because that means winter is right around the corner and considering we didn't have much of a summer, that sucks even more.
But I like fall, cool nights, warmish days, usually not too much rain, a pleasant time of year.
It was a crazy weekend, well maybe not crazy, but busy for sure.
We had a couple more surprises with the renovation project, nothing hugely expensive thank God, but time consuming as we had to drywall the entire ceiling in Miss K's new room or risk the plaster falling in sometime down the road.
Miss K was excited to go shoe shopping on Sunday. She mostly wanted to go to Home Depot due to there being driving carts there, but thought the prospect of new shoes for her sounded pretty good too.
So 300 bucks later we were done shopping. New shoes and winter boots for her. New frying pans for us and a few things at Costco and it still ended up being an expensive weekend.
At least the renovation budget isn't taking a 1000 dollar hit every week now. We've got the taper/mudder guy to pay and the balance of the flooring to come due. And of course paint, closet organizers and accessories to go yet, but the big stuff is done.
I had a very proud mom moment on Sunday too. I'm always proud of Miss K but Sunday was a really good day.
We were out at a local store and they had one of those swinging bar contraptions as you enter the store. The kind where if you don't hold it for the next person it swings back and catches them in the nards, or in Miss K's case square on the chin.
So Big C went through, then Miss K, then me, she held the bar while I went through and proceeded to hold it for the 2 people that came in the store behind me.
We didn't ask that she hold it, she just did. And that made me swell with pride, that we'd done a good enough job in raising her that even at 4 years old she was conscious of other people around her and made good social etiquette decisions
It was like the day we were at a dog trial and an older gentleman asked if he might have one of the potato chips that she was eating. She jumped up off her seat and went over and gave him one, I think he was so shocked that she did he just stood there and looked at her for few seconds before saying thank you.
It's moments like those that make you think that maybe you really are instilling the right values and manners in your kid, or perhaps its more nature than nurture?? Who knows for sure, but she's one hell of a kid somedays.
She's been in school a total of 9 full days and already has 2 full songs memorized, has an "award" from her teacher that she knows all her uppercase letters and has just about all the kids in the classroom name's memorized.
It wasn't a bad weekend for Big C and I, not super, but not bad either. He was a little crusty/cranky to start with, but by Sunday he was pretty good and seemed in good spirits. Just remaining hopeful that he's getting his crap together a little bit more.
Only time will tell on that front, til then we just have to keep taking it day by day…never sure what the future brings, but that is life I guess
Til next time…has your kid done something to make you proud lately
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