Friday Favorites: First Week of Spring 2022

Happy first week of spring!  I hope you had a great one.  Ours started out perfectly with warm weather, flip flops, and friends and then got progressively colder and wetter as the week went on.  But I refuse to break out my winter gear so I'm just gritting my teeth and making the best of it. 

I'm kind of a nervous ball of energy today; Alec has his SkillsUSA contest and while I've been trying so hard to act normal around him so I don't add to his own nerves and expectations it's so hard not knowing how his day is going.  I can't wait to pick him up around 8 tonight and hear all about it!!  

Hopefully he's awake enough to talk about his day on the drive home (we had to get up at 3:45! to be at the school for 4:45-- we have a 30 minute drive). 

Seeing old friends!  It was in the 70's on Friday so Evan and I had plans to meet up with friends of ours for a hike and picnic.  We hadn't seen them since last summer and it was great catching up with one another. While her son is really close with my younger two he is actually Ian's age and looking at graduating from homeschooling and heading off to college.  It's sad to think we won't be hiking together next year but I am determined to keep in touch with them!!  The mom and I were reminiscing about when we all first met at a homeschooling engineering class at the Providence Children's Museum in 2016... who knew we'd be such close friends 6 years later? 

Throwback photo:

My younger two boys with their new friend (and engineering class teacher) at the museum 2016

Evan and his friend now... my how they've grown! 

I love productive mornings in the kitchen! Saturday morning I made up a huge tossed salad and prepped dinner in the crock pot (we were having pulled pork), I also washed and cut the green beans, made a custless quiche for the week, and whipped up 2 loaves of chocolate chip banana bread for my husband and oldest son (they're the only ones that eat it)-- all that before 10 am when I took Alec to karate. 

Sunday we dragged the younger two boys on a 2 hour hike through the woods and checked out a ravine we had never seen before.  After that my mother in law came over for dinner again and we played cards and ate some chocolate chip cookies. 

Monday was so busy but a definite favorite from the day was the fact that Evan did almost all his schoolwork on his own while I was gone getting new tires for the car.  That meant that by 11 we were still ready to head out on a hike.  We went to check out the new bridge they built at the dam that now connects the two sides and I can not wait to go back and hike the whole loop (but it would probably take several hours!). 

Alec started track & field again this week and my mom and I managed to meet up at the school twice to walk around the cemetery next door while Alec practices.  It's been wonderful to see her more regularly again.

Can you see the yellow javelin?  

I painted my nails a pretty light blue with some darker blue glitter and pulled out all my ripped jeans from my spring storage bins.  It's been pretty cold but I've been wearing them all anyway!  I also pulled out some of my more spring like sweaters and tops and have been trying to make them work as well.  I am just over winter clothes and would rather be cold. 😄

I bought myself some pretty flowers at the grocery store.  Those always put a smile on my face.

 I made a card and finished up some scrapbooking pages this week too. Finding time to craft is always a favorite-- especially when I like how the projects are turning out.

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