March Was A Bust (Goal Update)

I have no idea how today is the last day of the month. I didn't get a lot done by the way of goals. Sooooo, I'm not sure what we did this month. There was some park time, some bonkers time and a lot of reading for school. Let's hope April is more exciting. I'm ready to spruce up the yard for our first spring here!

2019 Goals 
Read 10 Books: 4
I had three and I added 1 in March:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
This is the best book I've read so far this year. Just amazing. Will read again, for sure!

Knit 4 Things (and no new yarn!): 1
Still at one. Don't think I knit a stitch this month. The four things might seem like a small goal but this one might be getting away from me. Yikes


Run 400 Miles: 119
I broke 100! I added 35 miles this month. I was really gung ho and thought I would make 45. That didn't happen. Oops

Five House Projects:
Stairs (Completed: 0/00 )
Porch (Completed: 0/00 )
Dishwasher (Completed: 2/23 )
Water Heater (Completed: 2/15 )
Refinish Door (Completed: 0/00)
Nothing new here, but I do love my dishwasher. Love!!

In 2019 we all still fit in the chair! 

I got to see a real live Picchu today at an Alpaca Show!!

My first batch of clean dishes in the dishwasher.
It was a big day! 

Unethical Research

I have now been in my Introduction to Research class for two weeks. So I know that the research I have been doing on Daryl can only be categorized as unethical. Not for physical harm that might happen (I think), but perhaps emotional harm (more probable).

On Sunday night when Daryl was with Kelly he had an earache. He woke up on Monday and said there was no way he could go to school. So Kelly took him to the doctor. Our doctor has been seeing both boys since Alex was born. So, he let Kelly look in Daryl's ear to see that is was pink but not that bad. He said that if it were his kid he would not give him an antibiotic. He did however, in front of Daryl, give Kelly a prescription in case Daryl's ear got much worse.

For the rest of Monday and Tuesday morning I didn't hear anything about his ear unless I was reminding him it was time for ibuprofen. So I was very surprised to get a call from Kelly at work and hear that Daryl was spending more time in the Nurse's office than class. Daryl told the nurse he needed his prescription filled so his ear would get better.

I told Kelly it was all in his head, and his ear was going to be fine. But we both know that once Daryl gets an idea he won't let it go! So I decided to do a little research experiment. My hypothesis was If I give my son a different color of ibuprofen and tell him it is an antibiotic his ear will feel better. Kelly agreed with the idea, there was a little bit of an evil laugh, and I took him a red ibuprofen in a blank bottle to school. I told him he had to take two pills a day for three days.

I'm here to tell you my hypothesis was correct, on Thursday he was healed! I can not recommend that you try and replicate my research project. Like I stated before: unethical. 😂😂

Enjoyed our day off of school and work at Going Bonkers! 

Spring Break and Family Secrets shhhhhhh

We are officially in day one of Spring Break. The boys have been shipped SW to spend some quality time with their cousins. They were so excited to go that they wanted to leave at 6am on Sunday. Since daylight savings time was springing forward, we left closer to 11! ;-)

Last week went fast with basketball awards and Daryl's 4th grade music program. At the Upward awards ceremony they had a magician so that was the highlight of the night. I'm happy to have a break from Saturday games, but they both enjoyed the league so hopefully it works for us to do that again next year.

Daryl's program was last Thursday and he did a great job! The theme was western so he was very excited to wear his cowboy stuff. I even got him a new shirt because I don't have very many reasons to get him new clothes, he told me thank you for his shirt three days in a row. Daryl is pretty sweet most of the time.

The funniest moment of the week happened before Daryl's program when Alex was talking to a school buddy. Kelly, Mike and Aunt Barb were all there to witness it too!

Al's Friend-"Our other friend is sitting in the back let's go say hi."
Me-"I'll go say hi too."
Al's Friend-"You can't do that, stranger danger."
Me-"I'm not a stranger, you know me!"
Al's Friend-"I only know you because you married him (points at Kelly) and you two adopted him (points at Alex).
Alex-"I'm not adopted!"
Al's Friend- "Yes you are, you're white!"

All of us were laughing so hard, Alex included. It has been awhile since somebody has insisted I'm not Alex's bio mom. It's pretty funny when it happens. Later in the night Alex was throwing a fit about something when Grandpa Mike told us to take it easy on him, he just found out he was adopted!

How we road trip across the state. 

My little cowboy! 

Cousin love!! 

My company on the long car ride home.