Mom's Mood Chart

Apparently, the wind and smoke caused headache I’ve had for the last few days has made me grumpy. Jason made a “Mom’s mood chart.”

I go from "happy" to "watch out" in zero point two seconds.

Current level is brown. Lol

Question of the Week

What does mommy and daddy do that makes you feel loved?

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Jack: "You love me. You hug me. You snuggle me. You kiss me. I answered them all!"

Jason: "You hug me and snuggle me and love me. You make me feel special and I feel lucky to have such amazing parents."

Shawn:  "You are more than funny and I love you so much. I feel loved when you love on me (snuggle him)."

Stir Crazy

Due to bad air quality (and some pretty intense Santa Ana winds today), we've been spending the last few days indoors. That, of course, has made us all go a bit stir crazy. On the plus side, we did get to watch an old school movie, The Flight of the Navigator, which everyone enjoyed. Here's hoping tomorrow allows us to get out and about a bit!

Cute Big Boy Saturday -- Reading Like Crazy!

Jack has been so motivated to read for the AR program. He found out he would get to earn a trophy if he gets to 50 AR points this year. He heard that info and was off...

He spent much of his day off yesterday reading, which meant he could take an AR test. He proudly showed me his AR point total so far this year, and he has already reached 40.4 points! So awesome!

Keep up the hard work, Jack!

Friday Five

(posting this late - written half on Friday and half on Saturday)

It's been an interesting couple of days around these parts. This was the view today when we looked out our back window at about noon ...

That is smoke from fires just south of us. 😢

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Because of the fires, both my district and the boys' district canceled school on Friday. Actually, most of the schools on this end of the county cancelled. It was a surprise, but I think it was definitely a good call, especially with the air quality being what it was from the smoke/ash in the air.

There are actually two fires going right now in our area. The winds are intense and gusting upwards of 50 miles an hour. The ground is dry from years of drought. Humidity is in the single digits. The conditions are ripe for a raging fire, and these two are meeting that expectation already. 😢

It is also strange, though, because we were going through almost this same situation just under a year ago. Let's hope that this round of fires don't rage for as long as last year's fire. We should have the winds die down on Saturday, but the talk is that they'll pick back up on Sunday and be bad through Tuesday.

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Due to the fires, we lost our cable and internet for about 24 hours. We lost power at about 4 pm on Friday, and didn't get it back until approximately 6 pm the next day. We all got a chance to see how much we rely on technology in our lives. Plus, the boys got to see what life must have been like in "the dark ages" as they said. LOL

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This coming week will bring conferences for the boys. Well, sort of, at least. Jack's conference is on Thursday. This kid is quite the character, so it will be interesting to hear what his teacher says about him. lol. The big boys won't have their conferences until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Their teacher was sick two days last week, and then with the day canceled on Friday, she didn't get a chance to set anything up.

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The kids have been reading fools around these parts. Shawn finished his second book with Bookshare and started his third. (Go, Shawn!) Jason finished the 6th Harry Potter book. (It put his emotions through the wringer. 😢) Jack has been on a roll with AR and is reading and testing like no tomorrow! Yay for readers!

Mom and Three of Her Guys

Look at all of these handsome guys!

Mostly Wordless Wednesday

All my guys together...