This is only 3 days of content, but the whole week was a good week to be Meg Willardson. Part 2 to come:
Aaron loves coaching Soren’s soccer team. They took last minute win on Thursday night. The season ended 2 games early for us because we are out for Fall Break, but Bear and Soren both had awesome soccer seasons!
On to football and World Series Playoffs for the Dodgers
Add Hoco poster making helper person to my resume. I guess my hours are decided by the patrons and apparently they only choose the 10pm until midnight hours gif my shift.
I’m still on açaí bowl kick. Can’t get enough of these. This pick is with the granola that comes with it that is sub par in my opinion so I made a double batch of my favorite cinnamon almond granola last night to level it up. Happiness restored in bowl. Gotta drizzle with warm peanut butter too. A must! We miss our monthly PB Swizzles, Shef!
Happy fried pie season to all those who celebrate! I took my mama to vintage market days. Woo doggies was it a warm day! I came home empty handed (aside from the fortune I spent on pies at Yoders), but there were many cute things and I found the CUTEST mustard yellow ceramic pitcher that my mom added to her collection.
The doily snowflake pillow the cutest? I have a bunch of my grandmothers crocheted lace doilies that now yearn to be little snowflakes!
I almost bought this tall crock for my rolling pins and now regret it. I love the narrow shape but I talked myself out of it with the justification that I don’t need anything else on my countertops. Why did I do that? It’s so pretty.
Even though we got too warm and felt dead by the time we got to the car, it was nice to get out with my mom!
XC pics are here! Soren is the cutest runner 7th grade has ever seen.
Who is this teenager growing up before our eyes?
It’s autumn on primrose lane! Every house has decorations out and it’s darling. I need to get a pic of Kathy’s graveyard or her wheelbarrow of apple baskets and scarecrows. Love it!
Before Hoco on Saturday, we dashed down to Springdale for Soren’s XC invitational. Even with the long uphill finish line he got a meet PR from a 14:10 at Shiloh Christian to 13:42! Go Soren! I’ve been to this course with my teens a few times to support friends and Sunday School students (Landan, Ryan, Parker, Brightyn, Tate and Sawyer, Avery) but it is SO fun to have MY kid out there running! Heres a post race pic of Spencer O and Soren. Great race, boys!
Rushed back home for a line up of teen boys asking for haircuts. Ammon came over days before because he prepares ahead of time (to maintain his favorite status haha) and only came by Saturday to provide moral support while I waxed some eyebrows. Because “Bros don’t let Bros get waxed alone” I guess? 💀💀. I took the boys to pick flowers for bouquets and then sent Ammo home with a pink tie approved by his cutie date.
It’s October, so FaceTimes with Quincy are officially getting a bit weirder 😂 I love her.
Lacey Bones is on the picnic table out front. Our Halloween decor offering is kind of pathetic. I have not prepped costumes yet either, and the family asks me daily what we are going to be with great expectations. The pressure!!
New snack alert. Cottage cheese, shredded (canned in this case, bc I’m trying to rotate food storage) some whipped cream cheese, and cfa zesty buffalo sauce. I love it cold with cucumbers, the kids put cheese on top and eat it hot with celery.
Sloane loves graphic novels. Less words to sort through, illustrations to help tell the story, and she can read through a “big” book in less time. Graphic novels are a gift from heaven for parents of teens and tweens with dyslexia. Anything wholesome that gets my kids nose in a book gets 5 stars.
What surprised me is Sloane’s interest in Spanish/English hybrid graphic novels. They’re full of Spanish vocabulary and some pages are completely in Spanish, but she’s reading them out loud just as intently. She shrugged and said ever so casually, “Mom is the same amount of work.” and that struck a chord in my brain.
IT’S THS SAME amount of work for her to read a book in her non-native language as it is to read in English.
Literacy was SO challenging for Reese. All of academia is a challenge for her. But she’s doing it. And Sloane is doing it. And I’m incredibly proud of them.
Lemon orzo soup with fresh garlic, herbs, and homemade stock will cure what ails you. I made a pot this week for my family who is not unwell and took a pot to some friends who are.
Bear is running for student council at the elementary school. This is his professional face. What a guy.
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