Our Lives Loudly

 These are always so fun to read from others and I am so curious what a typical day looks like for people. Obviously everyone’s day to day is completely different, but this was ours on this day! - Wednesday, February 1st 2023 -  School today for the kids so my alarm goes off a little before 7. Typically Sam is up between 6-6:30 but today he slept in! Molly was the first one up which NEVER happens. Anyways, we all got up, Tom was home still so we tag teamed the breakfast/clothes morning routine. Molly is the hardest in the morning, she is always the last to be ready and is such a slow eater! But, everyone was ready when the bus came at 7:46. Elliott still likes one of us to walk him out, and it was negative something outside so Tom threw on his shoes and walked him out. Once they left, Tom started working on the van. Our heat wasn’t working… brrr. So thankful he was able to fix it by replacing the thermostat!  While he did that I cleaned up the kitchen and then started on ...

 Hello and HAPPY 2023!  *I just went to go start another post and realized this one never posted. I don’t think I even finished it but I am just going to publish this one*  We are 20 some days in and so far… yikes! The five of us are just getting over covid. Dang. We had avoided it for so long and then… booom. It hit us. It is so strange, it hit us all differently. Tom and I had horrrrrible headaches/body aches for days and were so exhausted. Sam had similar symptoms to us, Elliott had some stomach problems and molly was throwing up/fevering for days. It was great… and a wonderful time for our dryer not to be working. The laundry was really piling up, especially once she started vomiting. Blah!!! Anyways; that is over and as sucky as it was I’m glad we are all ok. The big bummer was that Tom had planned a weekend away with some friends for his birthday… and he obviously had to cancel that. He works so hard ALL the time and he was so bummed but we are gonna find a time asa...