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August 16, 2021August 15, 2021

School is knocking on the door! This past week I went to a training for paraprofessionals in preparation for my new job at Mazy’s new school! I am very eager to start and will be working 3 full days a week, which is a perfect fit. This coming week comes more professional development and back-to-school night for Mazy. And next week? Mazy starts school and I start working! Crazy to think summer is coming to a close, but I am ready for routine and some relative consistency. Though the pool won’t be closed any time soon, so hopefully we can spend many hours in there yet!

This past week was quite hot and stormy, which made being outside a bit harder for this heart patient girl, but we are thankful for the cooler weather here in Michigan the past few days. And here’s what our week has looked like:

After some pretty hot temps, Mazy and I headed to some thrift stores where we found some GEMS, like this old school game that I grew up with, circa 1981! You bet we bought it:

Mazy set up a movie night at home with tickets, snacks, and we watched “Inside Out.” Yep, I bawled during it and I even saw Mazy holding back the tears!

Movie time meant snuggle time with daddy and maybe falling asleep…

Love watching this girl bike:

Can’t believe this girl is going to be in 1st grade this year! Couldn’t love that girl more.

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Well, hello summer! I realize we do not much outside of swimming and being with people! We are camping this week with family and are loving getting out! This is the first thing we have gone to that hasn’t been cancelled! Of course things aren’t like they normally would be at the campground, but it…

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Hello snow! The first picture is of us hanging out by our propane fire, with the temperature definitely warmer. And by the end of the week, our first snow! We loved both extremes and everything in between! Mazy loves to roast marshmallows! With snow on the horizon, that meant lots of leaf raking this week!…

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We have been keeping ourselves busy, by choice, this past week! We are DONE with all of the house projects we wanted to get done before surgery, which we are really excited about. We first thought we had until November 30 to finish them, but with surgery thankfully being moved up to this Friday, we…

Around The Home Since Surgery

Life “around our home” has looked a little different these days, but never the less, it’s still life in our home, during our season of life! So here’s what we have been up to! Despite the craziness of our life these days, my sister was able to help me decorate our house with the few…

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Life has been a bit crazy as of late, part of it has been our own doing, some, a bit unplanned. So almost 2 weeks ago, Mazy had tubes put in and her adenoids taken out. I feel she never made a “full” recovery, because then she ended up getting influenza A. The common flu…

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Last week was filled with pricing, deciding, organizing, and decluttering. EVERY. NOOK. AND. CRANNY. If you have prepared for a garage sale, you know the feeling. This panic that sets in when you realize just how much stuff you have and how many little piddly things end up in places you did not even know existed!…