What's Up Wednesday: April 2022

 

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Here goes nothing....

What We're Eating This Week

Monday - Grilled Chicken Salads

Tuesday - Chicken and Broccoli Stir Fry with Brown Rice

Wednesday- Chicken Burgers, Corn On The Cob, Brussel Sprouts, Pickles

Thursday - Girls eating out in Dartmouth- Daddy Takeout (Heading to see Mama's College!)

 

 

Friday 4/28/22- Pizza and Salad

 

 

What I'm Reminiscing About

 

Shopping for a dress for Diana right now for her 8th grade semi formal and it's bringing back all sorts of memories of my mom shopping with me...ahh the difficulties of shopping with a teen- HA! 

 

What I'm Loving

This job market....it makes my job so much more fun when we are bombarded with jobs...yes...it is challenging to find great candidates but I love the challenge!

 

What We've Been Up To

Diana attended a master class and performance with ABT and had a blast!

The girls got fitted for their dresses for Kayla's wedding!

 

Date Walks have continued :)

We LOVED watching Diana do her thing and play Sally in the WMS Production of Charlie Brown

The Living Stations Of The Cross did not disappoint!

Eva is having a blast at softball especially practicing for her All Star Tournaments!

We enjoyed all of our annual Easter traditions like making resurrection rolls, bunny breads, birds nest cookies and coloring eggs especially with Mimi and Papa

Sometimes...our date walks have been turning into family walks ;)

Mama and Bethany crushed Staff Appreciation Week (insert bicep emoji here)

We enjoyed a food tasting for Kayla and Marshall's wedding!

and loved hearing Diana sing in her spring choral concert

and we celebrated Eva's 8th Birthday with our family this past weekend (her friend party will be next month when everyone is back in town!)

 

What I'm Dreading

Nothing at the moment!

What I'm Working On

My full time job, balancing family and work, my health, Blackout Cancer 2022 and summer plans!

What I'm Excited About

Seeing the girls dance in Beauty and the Beast and a weekend in Nantucket with my besties :)

What I'm Watching/Reading

I'm watching my usual faves including A Million Little Things, This Is Us and the nightly news- preferably WCVB (Channel 5 Boston)

and then my love of crime documentaries continues...just finished "The Dropout" based on Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos- just disgusted by how crazy this woman is and how she could've hurt so many people...pure greed and insanity

Amanda Seyfried did an amazing job portraying her!

 

Any other crime documentaries you can recommend?  Ha!  I need a new one please

and I got three books in for April...they were

Nantucket Weddings by Pamela Kelley

 

Book 5 in the Beach Plum Cove Series

This was a sweet one :)

and

Reminders Of Him by Colleen Hoover

She never disappoints!  This is our Book Club read for this month too :)

and finished the Beach Plum Cove Series with Book 6

Nantucket Threads

another fast and fun read!

 

What I'm Listening To

A little bit of everything...lately I have been too busy to think about music so Diana takes over with her playlist in the car...you can usually count on Taylor Swift...Olivia Rodrigo and Amy Winehouse ;)

What I'm Wearing

Ugh..sore subject...just waiting on real spring weather here when I can wear all of the Lilly...it has been some more bright colors but still layers...and still some black because it has been in the 40's and 50s- double UGH!

 

What I'm Doing This Weekend

Will be heading back from UMD with my girls and Lea and her kids- we are introducing the kids to our college and visiting some of our old local hangouts :)  Cannot wait....the rest of the weekend will be pretty low key...taking my Father In Law to start suit shopping for Kayla's wedding and then will get to watch Eva play in a softball tournament on Sunday...so relaxing and fun!

What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

Nantucket, Memorial Day Weekend and hopefully time in our pool!

What Else Is New?

Patty and I are hosting Monthly Musings tomorrow!  We are talking all things travel and vacations....check out our questions below.  Hope you will join us!

Eva is 8!

 Our Baby is 8!

 

Eva a.k.a Pidge is getting to be such a big girl!

 

 

She completed our family in 2014 

 

 

and she was the BEST baby...she ate...slept...did her business...like a machine...she weighed in at 7 pounds 11 ounces at birth

 

 

We kept waiting for her to have bad acid reflex the way Diana did...but she didn't...she just kept eating :)

 

 

She started walking at 14 months...of course her first word was Dada but some of our other favorite first words of hers were Mama, Please, More, Tank Too for Thank You :)

As she grew, we realized how kind she was...how she cares about everyone's feelings....she is so sensitive and so smart..not bragging..just the truth..I am in awe of her

Eva is everyone's friend...she doesn't have a mean bone in her body...in fact when someone else is being rude or mean, she will often come out with a dry, adult-like comment and we keel over...her teacher gets a big kick out of her sense of humor...in fact all of her teachers have- HA!

She is into so many things...like hockey and softball and dance...and she is actually enjoying acting (because she wants to be just like her big sister)...at home, she loves to play Ro Blox and Face time with her friends as well as Memory and other games...and she loves to be outside!

We often call her "OCD" because everything has to be within the "schedule" and "on point"...if we need to change her pick up from school one day because of work meetings or a change in plans, we get the third degree with a very concerned face ;)

She is very motivated to do big things in this world...some of her aspirations include becoming President of the United States...being a Secret Service Agent or being a Police Officer or Engineer

 

 My baby still walks around sucking her thumb and holding her blanket so sometimes we call her Linus...and wherever you see Eva walking around...you are sure to find Remi right behind her...he is her shadow...it is really sweet

She loves her family fiercely and she loves her friends AND is obsessed with school!

She is now VERY excited to be in Big Sister Kayla's wedding in the fall 

As you may be able to tell, she picked a very grown up style for her dress...I could just eat her right up!

Happy 8th Birthday Pidge- Mama loves you so much! XO