While I walked Basil in the morning Abe went on a long bike ride to decompress. Our trip last weekend helped a lot, but work just sucks him and the bike ride helped him at least grasp at the notion of well-being!
Thursday was also Lydia’s last day of school! It was a short day and she collected a lot of phone numbers in her year book for future play dates with her friends. I am so, so sad that her year with Mrs. Lammichhane is coming to an end. But I am proud of all the ways Lydia has grown in that class and will always be grateful to Mrs. Lammichhane for helping facilitate that growth.
I spent a lot of the day practicing instruments with the kids, tidying the house, assembling meals and cleaning after, and also adjusting to having more freedom in the day because of Lexy’s daily help. Lexy came over in the evening while Abe was at the old house, so I used the time to finally get my google calendar to match my physical calendar and double check that I have the summer scheduled correctly. Then I went and did hot yoga for the first time in over a year! It felt amazing (and really hard).
In June the kids have regular swimming lessons with Aubrey and then twenty-one lessons scheduled with Utah Swim Academy. I am determined that this is the year they will all become proficient in this life saving skill! The three younger kids also all have soccer and Lydia has volleyball, and all of the kids have an hour of dance (or, in Clarissa’s case, Mommy and me!) weekly. The three oldest have their regular music lessons and at the end of the summer they have acting camp. And my friend Jean is coming that last week for a visit too. I am taking a girls trip to Vegas with my Thrive friends the first weekend in June, and I am trying to see if we can work in a trip to the Shakespeare festival while Jean is here.