Diary No. 2

Hey there hi there ho there!

Another week has gone by!

This week it was nice to get back into the normal routine after being home and sick with Covid. I always forget how much I need and appreciate routine until I'm not in it and then I am again. Does that make sense? I love me some regular life routine.

Friday I most definitely got cabin fever... even though I left my house on Monday to go grocery shopping. I was sitting on the couch and I said to myself, "Uhm, we need to leave, we just need to get out of this house." It wasn't even a bad day, my brain was just like you can't stare at these four walls anymore until you leave...so I packed the boys up and we hit the dollar store to grab some supplies for some fun sensory activities next week It helped so much. So, if you feel like you are going a little insane...go to the dollar store!

Speaking of which...You know how Dollar Tree is supposed to be the dollar store that everything actually costs a dollar? Well, apparently it is now $1.25 Tree. I shouldn't be this annoyed that they raised the prices by a quarter, but I am. Seriously? Inflation I guess...they better also inflate the paycheck, right?!

What else is on my mind? Well I was thinking about the balance of entertaining your kids and teaching them to entertain themselves. I was starting to feel guilty because I wasn't doing a whole lot of intentional learning activities with the boys. I love doing it, but some weeks I'm just exhausted and can't bring myself to think of anything fun or educational. I realized though, that letting them figure out how to entertain themselves is just as valuable as giving them a fun sensory activity where they wash mud off of dinosaurs. So now I'm not going to feel guilty for the days I just let them figure out what to do on their own, and have fun on the days I come up with an activity for them. I know, they are only 14 months old so I don't need to try that hard to teach them, but I do genuinely love it! I guess my point is, if you aren't the arts and crafts mom, your kids will be fine, lol.

This week I made some big progress on a writing project I'm working on too...which is so exciting to me! I started it in September/October and it's taken me a while to work on it (20 minutes a day doesn't make big progress quickly, but that's mom life). I'm hoping to announce it at the end of March but I'm also being flexible as the wife/mother Kaydee takes priority over the writing Kaydee. It brings me so much joy and I am so thankful for the gift of writing!

I hope you've had a great week and enjoy a lovely weekend with your family! Tonight is my husband and I's monthly date night, and I'm so excited to spend some alone time eating a peaceful meal and having an uninterrupted conversation with my best friend.

Here are some random photos from our week! (These diary posts are making me want to take MORE pictures...)