Sean’s family lost its matriarch this week. She was not just a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother. She was a great listener, she loved to bake and she knew how to love each of her family members for who they were-each and every one of us. One thing that I know I always loved about her was that she made me feel a part of the family from day one.
Within minutes of us telling the boys that their great-grandma had died, Liam knew exactly what he wanted to do.
The boys have Tae Kwon Do testing this week. They have worked and worked for weeks now, but they also have to do the written work.
The boys’ violin teacher has a violin workshop every year where she invites another Suzuki teacher in to work with her students for a weekend. Last year the teacher was from San Francisco, this year the teacher was from Seattle and she was AMAZING!!!! Each child had a masterclass with her and three other students where they worked on one piece of music together. Then she taught a whole group class for books 1-3 and then another class for kids in books 4 and up. She also gave a parent talk (which was awesome). While we were doing that, the seven and unders were in a dalcroze/eurythmics class while the eight and ups were in a fiddle class.
I am not sure which plot is ours since they aren’t marked yet. There are several community gardens around town, but this one is new and isn’t quite ready. I think the gardening season officially begins in March, which is going to be here before you know it.
Playing with the Air Hog Liam got for his birthday. It is strictly an outside only toy.
I ended up having to help Colm do this project. The stickers we got to do this were IMPOSSIBLE to get off their little sheet. Oh my goodness! If I wouldn’t have helped him, he would have been up until midnight trying to pry those darn stickers off.
Sean and the boys played Monopoly this evening while I cooked dinner.
This was our first outing to a children’s theater since moving here. Robin Hood was such a fun play…a perfect balance of humor, entertainment and fight scenes.
The boys had SO MUCH fun at this game. There was a LOT of belly laughing going on. My dad took me to see them when I was about their age and it was just as fun as I remember. 🙂
*I know the quality of this picture is horrible, but I wasn’t sure if they would let me bring in my nice camera, so I just used my phone camera.
