Mom Life with Adrienne

 Hey loves. The kids are on winter break, we have a winter weather warning in our forecast that could bring wind chills below -20, a flash freeze, some snow, and possible wide spread power outages. They have no said a time of when everything is suppose to start as the storm is still shifting so we just wait and see. Fingers crossed nothing is to severe and everyone stays warm and safe this holiday weekend. 

With that I am recapping the last week or so. I slacked on taking pictures with all the holiday chaos.

Monday December 12

Up early and ready to hit the week running. I knew I had a busy day ahead and if I wanted to get stuff done I needed to start the day early. This is my current much smaller morning stack. The other item not pictured is I listen to an advent from Annie F Downs on either a podcast or a video. 

I got my workout done before anyone was awake and before I had to go pick Ella up from her dads. 

I got home from picking up Ella and I find these two cuddling on the couch. They are so sweet.

All the kids were off to school then I headed to meet my mom at the nursing home my dad was at. 

He was finally being released to come home and rest after his knee surgery. He is doing a lot better and getting more rest at home. Brian also met us at the house to help put risers on the couch to make it 4 inches higher so it is easier for my dad to get up and down. 

After getting my dad situated, it was time to go pick up Anna from preschool. For lunch I made a stuffed chicken breast from Aldi over a bed of shredded Brussel sprouts with everything but the bagel seasoning. It was so good. 

For dinner we had waffle pizza pockets. This turned out to be a win for everyone, I was able to make mine with dairy free cheese. 

This is the smile of a girl who is asking for a shower because she got hot chocolate in her hair somehow. Somedays I don't ask questions. 

Oh sibling love before bed. 

Tuesday December 13

I pulled out my mug warmer that I got last year for Christmas. loving drinking my coffee warm.

It was a cuddle day. I was trying to read this book and Anna stole it. (good think she can't read)

Then she decided to grab a book off of the office book shelf. Now she is preparing to be a millionaire. 

We had banana's that needed used up. Normally I just freeze them for my shakes, but we have plenty in the freezer when my kids haven't been eating them while they are fresh. Instead I decided to make some muffins. 

My little helper got the best part of the job, licking the spoons. 

After school Ella had an appointment to have her ears checked out. She didn't pass the hearing test at school, which isn't news to use but she has always passed it at the office. But this time she needed a note filled out from the doctor for the school. At the office she also failed the test, had some wax build up so they flushed it out. Ella goes and sees and ENT in January and an audiologist in February. 

Wednesday December 14

Got my workout in, Anna eventually joined me and just played while I finished my workout. Then it was the craziness of getting everyone else up and ready for school. 

I dropped Anna off at school then headed to the library to get some blogging work done. I didn't want to go home and get distracted by other things and was on a time limit. I had an eyebrow appointment then grabbed a coffee. I still had some time to spare so I sat in a parking lot and did some reading while I waited to pick up Anna. 

Gusgus just hanging around in the kitchen

Brian had his work Christmas party this night and I was suppose to go with him. After lunch I started not feeling good and opted to stay home and rest instead. 

Thursday December 15

Friday December 16

Since I wasn't feeling good the night before Brian took over bedtime duties. Anna somehow ended up wearing a tutu with her pajamas. 

Anna saw the deer in the backyard. While watching them for a while she also rode her deer. 

Thankfully I was feeling better I had a lot to do while Anna was at school. I went and did grocery shopping at Aldi and Target for the next week and a half so I wouldn't have to go out during the last minute holiday rush. I organized and cleaned out the fridge in our garage. I found all the vegetables that were left from Thanksgiving, opps. At least everything but the cucumber was still good so I fed it all to the deer. 

Santa visited Anna at school (when parents were not there so no pictures) and they made a list of what the kids wanted for Christmas. Anna said she wanted a princess doll, which was not on her Christmas list. 

Austin failed his eye test at school so we had to make him an eye appointment. After having issues finding a place that takes kids and our insurance we ended up taking him to Costco. Brian took him out of school early for a 230 appointment. This frame was his favorite but it is not what we ended up getting, but Brian didn't take a picture of the frames he's getting. They should be in after Christmas. 

I had schedule an appointment for pictures with Santa at Cabela's at 4pm. I expected Austin's appointment to be done and that Brian could quickly get the few things we needed from Costco. That ended up not being the case. Thankfully they left Austin and Brian leave for a little break to get his picture taken then went back to Costco to finish his appointment. 

Before leaving Ella asked for a picture outside in the frame. No one else wanted to take a picture with us. 

The picture turned out so cute. All three kids were smiling and looking at the camera. 

After leaving Cabela's Brian and Austin went back to Costco to finish Austin's eye appointment and pick up the few things we needed. Brian then took Austin to a few stores to finish Austin's shopping for other people.

The girls and I headed to my moms to drop off a few things that my dad needed. On our way home we drove by some Christmas light displays and Anna fell asleep. 

When we got home we popped some frozen pizza in the oven and had a cozy movie night at home. 

Saturday December 17

It was very hit or miss and melted as the sun came up. 

I spent the morning cleaning and doing laundry. At noon we had a zoom meet with a few of Brian's extended family opening ornaments that we exchanged last year. Around Christmas everyone got sick with the ick at different times and kept putting off the zoom meeting but we finally did it. A few family members couldn't make it, and a few didn't wait to open their ornaments. It was nice to see everyone from Seattle, to San Diego, to Kentucky, Boston, and Ohio. 

We surprised the kids and took them out to eat at a wood fire pizza place. (yes pizza two nights in a row). Brian and I opted for a white pizza and the kids just got cheese pizza. They kids were so well behaved and all liked the pizza. 

After eating we walked around Crocker Park and checked out their Christmas light displays and did mostly window shopping to get out of the cold. 

Brian and Ella ended the night watching a Christmas Story because she claims she has never seen it and kids at school were picking on her for it.  I am not a fan of the movie. I never watched it as a kid and only watched it for the first time a few years ago and don't get the hype. Side note now Ella wants to go see the house that is less than an hour from us. 

Sunday December 18

After dinner we drove around and looked at some more Christmas lights. One neighborhood we saw two horse drawn carriages. 

Monday December 19

We are now on holiday break and their is a lot of kids arguing already. Is it January 4th yet so the kids can go back to school?