Sunday, January 31, 2021

Treehouse Getaway

For My Man's 50th birthday in November, I was planning along with my good friend a beach resort vacation with the 2 couples (as her husband is our friend from HS and also turned 50).

With all the COVID restrictions and such, we were having a hard time booking a place that seemed promising to still be open when the trip came around in mid December.  

I decided to back out of those plans and shift my thoughts closer to home.
We've both lived in TN since we were 13 and have seen barn after barn and billboard after billboard advertising Ruby Falls and Rock City, yet we have never been.

I decided we would go together...just the 2 of us.

I wanted to stay somewhere unique and I found a treehouse on Lookout Mountain which seemed perfect.  My dates shifted from December to January based on availability which meant that AB would be back at college and unable to handle the kids here at home.  I called on my mom to help with MQ for a day and trusted the rest of the kids in the house should be able to fend for themselves and behave properly as the colonial kids of old did.  

So on Sunday, January 10 we headed to our tree house on the mountain for a 2 night celebration of a belated birthday and anniversary.









We got settled in this amazing and unique tiny house and headed to town for Korean food which we haven't had since living in Singapore in 2000-2002.  It was delicious!



 

Snow in 2021

On Friday, January 8 we had our first snow of 2021.  
The crazy thing was that many of our school friends didn't get snow...it just hit us out here in the country.
It was a great time to try out our snow sleds I grabbed at Dirt Cheap back in August!!


This nut loves Ruger and the cartoon Paw Patrol so she has been pretending to be a dog more than she acts like a little girl!!









Yeah for Snow Day!
 

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Indian Shopping

I met my mom at the local Indian grocery store for my yearly stock up of yummy spices and such.  It's such a fun place to go.  I got all kinds of things - old things I use all the time and new things I wanted to try.  I purchased 2 cookbooks from My Heart Beets - an Indian American girl who cooks Indian in her instant pot.  My mom and I love her cookbook and make Indian food regularly.
I decided to try 2 drinks with Basil Seeds in it for my college kids to try.  One loved it...the other passed it on to another sibling.  I'm so thankful my kids are willing to try all kinds of crazy foods and drinks!
When we arrived at the Indian grocery, they had changed their opening hours and so Mom and I had time to kill.  We went to TJ Maxx where I found this beautiful Turkish bowl and then had lunch at Subway.  

 

Proud Mama

While AB was home, she needed to get in some practicum hours for her elementary education classes.  The local public school in her college town was not permitting students to observe and assist, so she called up our school to see if she might do that.

Our favorite 1st grade teacher was her first stop and Mrs. Oaks put AB to work, reading aloud and working in a reading group.

It made me so happy and proud when she texted in the middle of the day and said "I can't wait to be a teacher!"

Before heading back, she made these beautiful paintings for each of her close friends at college.  So beautiful!


 

School Year 2020-2021

Junior
Sophomore
7th grade
6th grade
4th grade
4th grade

 Pre-K

Friday, January 29, 2021

Sister Photo Shoot

Leah, in all her "fame," gets lots of freebies from companies.
Thus she has to do lots of photo shoots and advertising...which she doesn't mind at all.
Good thing she has adorable little siblings to partake in the photo shoot!