Monday started another busy week for Hallie. Everyone had
work, and then Hallie had an appointment. Eliza wanted another giant Slurpee
(Thanks, Julie), and Mondays are early out, so Hallie took the kids to 7-Eleven
before the trio headed to the gym. Hallie and Eliza babysat Lily. Monday was so
long ago, but we are sure they were busy during the four hours of babysitting. Oh, yeah! We got garden soil at IFA and saw chicks.
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As the week started progressing, Hallie spent more and more
time at work helping Mr. Hall get ready for the next school year and to close
up the current school year. Most days Hallie spent at least an hour in the
cafeteria making sure there weren't any food fights breaking out. While Hallie
was doing tasks around the room, Mike came to the school to volunteer with the
4th grade’s Market Day. Market Day is where the kids either made items, created
a game, or presented a service for the other kids to buy with tickets. You
could hear a lot of what was happening in the auditorium in the Special Ed room,
and Hallie was super glad she volunteered Mike for that job. For his part, Mike
found the experience fascinating. The whole economy of tickets for goods and
services, bargaining, etc. – all of it functioned like a real economy in
microcosm. Both kids had gymnastics in the afternoon.
Life was heating up as Hump Day drew upon us. The kids had
Field Day at school. Part of Hallie's job as room mom was to come up with a game
for all of the kids to play on the field. Ha, ha, ha! Hallie thought she would
have to take the day off to do that job, so once again Hallie signed Mike up to
take care of the activity, a three-legged race. The kids really love it when a
dad comes to school – “Eliza's mom,” as Hallie is called, is a daily sighting.
After school and work, the kids and Hallie went to
gymnastics, where Eliza and Hallie babysat four kids for a majority of the
evening. Eliza has been a great help to Hallie this week with the kids. The
night before the fundraisers Hallie does for gymnastics are always a bit
stressful with last-minute things getting settled and tying up loose ends.
Everything usually works out, but Hallie is a plan-something-crazy-work-things-out-later
kind of girl, which makes life exciting and stressful all at the same time.
On Thursday morning, our new local recreation center opened.
Hallie arrived shortly after 6:00 am and came back reporting that it was great
to be working out again, especially on a day that was going to be CRAZY!
Work and school went on like usual, right up until it was
time to go and grab some lunch before Hallie had to grab the kid's stuff for
gym and throw the kids out of the car, load Lily in the car, and head to our
big fundraising night at Costa Vida. Lily hung out with Hallie and a few of the
other families from gymnastics for five hours and never cried or complained.
What a blessing it is to be a part of her life! Hallie finally returned home at
9:30 and was exhausted by the end of the day. She’s grateful to have had Mike's
support for a bit and for taking care of the kids so this night could be
possible.
What a blessing it was to have Friday be the last day of
school! The last day of school was a half day and included Hallie working the
cafeteria with the teachers. Something happened after school, but dang that was
like three days ago, and who knows what it was? What we do know is that Hallie
and Eliza ran by AirTime on the way to a fun pool party with our neighbors, and
Mike took Landon to and end of year party with his team. When the girls got
home, it was Mac and Cheese for dinner and a movie. The boys joined a bit later,
then everyone went to bed.
Hallie went to the Clyde in the morning, and Mike worked.
Landon had kept us up in the night with not being able to sleep, so playing was
not happening in the morning. After Hallie came home, we did some chores around
the house and then we all went to see Solo. Hallie is so glad that it was
action packed because those chairs could have put her right to sleep. Tired is
something she feels all the time, and the iron infusions did not even pack a
punch. This next week hopefully we can look into other avenues to help her feel
more rested.
Sunday was church, choir, and s’mores! What a great way to
end this crazy week! Church is at 1:00 pm, and it is hard to convince everyone
to get ready sometimes, but we made it. Hallie is singing Joseph Smith’s First
Prayer set to the music of Come Thou Fount. Cynthia Hallan makes choir an
educational experience and listens when even crazy people like Hallie ask if we
can sing the hymns in a different way.
In the evening, the neighbors got together in our alley and
had a s’mores party. Folks brought treats, firepits, cotton candy (Thanks,
Julie!!), and kids. What a great few hours we had to get to know each other
better and to meet new people. We are so happy the kids have great friends in
our neighborhood.
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