Random Wednesday

 1. Molly Anne is loving D-1. It's an athletic training facility and works on agility. It's pretty great. I want to do it too!

2. Have you all heard the song Journey of my Life by George Strait? Highly recommend. 

3. I'm in Camp mode. I printed out the packing lists and I'm on a mission. Thankfully they don't need many different things this year from last year but lots more quantity. Molly Anne is going for 4 weeks and Grady for 2. Molly Anne gets laundry done halfway through but Grady doesn't.

4. It's been good to be back in the swing of things at work. I've been hitting it hard this week and getting things done. 

5. I'm a chaperone for Grady's field trip to the Columbia, SC zoo coming up. I remember when Molly Anne was in first grade and went on it, I thought to myself, "when Grady goes on this one, I must be a chaperone!" It was nuts - a bunch of 6 year olds roaming through the zoo while open to the public!

6. Speaking of working out, I need to get back on the train like in a heftier way. I need to do more weight training because I really haven't done much of that since last May. That's crazy. I had done weights for 5 years before that. I just fell off the train and honestly didn't go back because I didn't see much change in my arms or legs or body from it. But I know it's good for me. I just enjoy walking and playing tennis a lot more.

Meal Plan This Week

Here's what I have cooking this week:

Sunday - Flank Steak, peas and baked potatoes

Monday - Greek Chicken Bowls

Tuesday - Beanier and Creamier

Wednesday - Turkey Stir Fry - my first time using ground turkey but my friend convinced me I needed to try it. 

Thursday - Shrimp and Grits

Washington DC

Through the kids school and friends family, we were invited to celebrate our nations wounded veterans with a ceremony at the Eisenhower Executive building on the White House campus! The kids sung a song at the beginning of the ceremony that they had prepared with their music teacher. Eighteen 6:55am practices to prep their four songs! It was wonderful to be there.

We originally were going to stay with my parents and run up to DC for the day but Molly Anne had been sick and I didn't want to risk my parents getting anything. We also had Mills to figure out. We ended up leaving Ocean Isle on Monday and coming back to Charlotte. Julie saved the day and kept Mills for us and Tuesday morning we drove up to DC. We stayed in Arlington right by the metro. That may have been Grady's highlight of the trip - riding the metro!

Early morning breakfast and the kids learned about city life! Blue eyed kiddos!

On the way to DC!

Lunch at Old Ebbit of course.

We saw lots of friends from school at lunch which was unplanned and fun!

Their music teacher put so much time and effort into the performance!

Back in Arlington and out for dinner and walking around.

We scooted back down south early Thursday morning. Quick trip. Whew!

We regrouped this weekend and celebrated Greer's birthday. I need to get my life together at work and at home and get ready for only 6 more weeks of school. Chat soon friends.

Mills on the Beach

Took Mills to the beach on Monday morning and so glad we did!

Thursday Finds

Sorry yall, I've been a bit MIA this week and I look forward to filling yall in soon. We've been in DC for a couple of days but back now! It's also been a bit sad as we're seeing Mills decline. Ahhh! Anyway, here is some happy!

ONE - a pretty gold sandal

TWO - loved this reasonably priced necklace!

THREE - super cute and beachy bag!

FOUR - this dress is so flattering and this print is fun!

FIVE - some yellow spunk for your closet!

Easter in OIB

Well, it wasn't the perfect Easter weekend and that is fine. Honestly it was a mess but we made the best of it. Molly Anne woke up on her first day of Spring Break with fever. We were supposed to go to Ocean Isle on Friday but we couldn't travel with her like that. So we went Saturday when she was a bit better. Then Mills had two seizures within 10 minutes of being in the car.

We made it to our favorite place. Both kids were on the dock within minutes "fishing."

She felt good enough to go to the beach that afternoon so we did for a couple of hours.

We got Sharky's carry out for dinner and chilled.

Easter morning when your Mom forgets your baskets! I truly thought they were here at the beach from last year but I couldn't find them anywhere. Ahhhh! They still had fun!

Bunny cinnamon rolls and scrapple!

And Hilary gave me the ingredients for empty tomb rolls which were fun to make!

Grady and I went to church on the beach while Kevin stayed with Molly Anne.

Painting eggs

Our friends Steve and Ariel hosted Easter and we enjoyed taking shifts to go over there. Thankfully they live super close to us so we could zip back and forth!

It was a beautiful day and nice to be with friends. I just wish Molly Anne could have been with us! This pesky fever!

Also, our air conditioning upstairs wasn't working so that was inconvenient when a child had a fever. She slept downstairs! Grady ended up needing Decadron last night too after some bad croup. Can't win them all yall!! Moving along!

Chat soon friends!

Coral Coral

Loving some coral this week. Happened accidentally but I don't hate it!

ONE - had to order this pretty blouse.

TWO - need to sip something tasty out of these acrylic glasses!

THREE - I have two of this style blouse but then they added this lace one!

FOUR - my friend had these wedges on last weekend and they are prettier in person

FIVE - a staple for your closet 40% off

Meals this week

My brain is basically a bowl of spaghetti this week for a multitude of reasons. We got a lot going on in our little world. Taking it one day at a time.

This week's menu plan - all very fast things.

Christina's Crunch Wrap Supreme - these were so good and Grady loved them. MA went to bed hungry. Did these Sunday since I had a bit more time.

Ashley's Bacon, Leek and Bacon Quiche - made this on Monday night for Tuesday.

Air fryer bang bang shrimp with fruit

Make your own pizzas

Leftovers

Field Hockey, Party and Egg Hunt

We had a nice weekend and hope you did too! Friday night we ended up hanging next door since baseball was canceled due to rain. It was fun! I made this French onion dip and it was delish. We ordered Duckworths on door dash and checked off the dinner box

Saturday morning was Molly Anne's first field hockey game of the season. This is her third season she has played but is getting a lot of instruction this year. It's great and she loves it. She scored two goals on Saturday and had a huge block as well!

Saturday afternoon I took her shopping at Southpark mall. She needed a few things that she feels good in! The mall was sooooo busy, felt like Black Friday!

Saturday night we got to celebrate my friend Margot's 40th birthday at Old Meck Brewery in the bowl! It was so much fun!

Later in the evening we snuck over to Roosters for dinner. Saw some friends from our club over there too which was fun.

Sunday was the egg hunt at the club. My kids are borderline too old, well Molly Anne is, but we are believers over here in all of the things! So we will keep on keeping on. They had an ages 8-11 section! We got to have brunch with good friends of ours which was an unexpected treat!

And Grady got his face painted!

The rest of the weekend it was a revolving door of children in and out of our house from the neighborhood. I love that they come knock on our door then they play here for a bit then they are onto the next house! It's so great. The more scooters or mobiles in our driveway the better!

My brain has 18,00000000 things to do and remember this week. Writing it all down and trying to take it a day at a time! Chat soon.