Thursday meant CoOp day and it was Jill‘s turn to teach. Quincy was home Thursday and Friday for classroom break and Reese and Corbin have “virtual break” days, meaning they all have a bunch of assignments, but they don’t have to be completed in real class time. We took advantage of the lovely weather and time together and set out for a big kid adventure day.
Ok the photos loaded in opposite order, but I’m not going to fix it, so there’s that.
(1) We started the with the Spanker Creek Craft Fair. Reese and Corbin came with me, and a half hour later, my mom was able to coax Quincy (2) out to join us with her. I didn’t buy a single thing. I saw some really cute holiday pillows and glass milk jugs that I loved, and then I remembered I don’t have a milk jug collection any more and decided it wasn’t worth investing in a new one. These were cute, but over priced like most of the stuff at this fair, in my opinion. Oh it was still so beautiful outside, crisp breeze and low 60s, fall colors in full glory, and the smell of funnel cake, kettle corn, and cinnamon nuts in the air. We loved watching the chainsaw log carving guys saw a bear and a pelican out of cedar stumps. (3) we found a fun multi shot rubber band gun both that entertained all of us for awhile with it’s cute little spinning targets (4). Our favorite part of the day, though, was that they saw our giant van and sent us to park in the front row bus parking! Haha! Points to the fun bus!
Up next, we hit up a series of thrift shops to gather items for Halloween costumes (it’s going to be epic). The girls and I found a couple cute things at DEB Project (Ann Taylor sweater with tags for $3? Yes please), and some costume essentials and fall faces (5) at Helping Hands. We grabbed lunch from Canes, picked up Soren and Sloane, and hit up a local house with a Halloween maze in the front yard. (7) The daytime spooky effect was just right for Sloane ...and Reese 😂 😂 who hate all things creepy/scary. They held onto each other for support. Haha
We popped into the library and shifted through the teen movie section for some weekend selections: (8) Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Sense and Sensibility, Vote! (A documentary about women’s suffrage because I’m not like a regular mom, I’m a homeschool mom), and Ready Player One (Aaron and I might need to preview on a home-date-night for the teen/tweens.)
The afternoon and evening were a whirlwind of taking kids to work, picking up twins, virtual piano lessons, soccer, calls with DHS and attorneys about the twins’ case, and a trip to the cemetery to honor Nicholas.
Friday was half consumed by DHS, emails, calls, texts, attorneys, and an hour zoom meeting. I decided to take the afternoon “off” from that systemic headache and we headed back out for adventure. (9) Pickleball and mini golf at Metfield and a sweet garage sale at Corbin’s school mate’s house. We scored an enormous Millennium Falcon for a few bucks that would ordinarily be sadly busted, but it’s going to make an amazing tree skirt for the boys’ Star Wars Christmas tree! Pizza and family movie night (while I was in the bedroom on 2 more hours of phone calls with DHS and seriously y’all, I am fresh out of nice things to say about our broken national foster care system. Also, I probably shouldn’t have even said that and basically feel like I live in a John Grisham thriller).
It’s Saturday morning, and all the little people were awake and ready for action at an unholy hour.
Aaron is a super fun dad and picked up a bunch of pumpkins for them on his way home from the gym this morning. Stay Tuned for Fall Break Part 2!
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