A Little Round-Up

 Oh hey there! It has been a week and some change. 

Valentine's Day was lovely and I took no pictures. I mean, it was cold cold cold, but it was a nice day anyhow. 

So here's a little round-up of the drama of the week. Report cards came out this week. There was a huge 2-hour drama with the kindergarten report cards. Even though I know kindergarten grades don't matter I was for sure freaking out at the sheer number of "N"s (needs improvement or the equivalent of an F) on M's report card. 

And I reached out via text to a couple of friends... who were also freaking out. Should we be hiring tutors? Requesting conferences? Right about the time we decided it must have been a weird error, the school emailed out that there was in fact, an error. And the "N"s were supposed to be "NS" or not-scorable because it was stuff they hadn't done yet. 

We all came down off of our panic. But that didn't prevent us from rounding up some 3D shapes to go over once she was home. Just to get ahead of the game. 

Ash Wednesday happened. I struggle with Lent most years anyway, but this year I was especially not looking forward to it. But the Mass was good and we got ashed with Q-tips which I thought was a nice way to do it. 

Lent sure found us and our old car gave up the ghost. So we are car shopping. But until then, Husband and the kids get to pick me up from work. (Husband dropped me off after we took the kids to school.) 

Luckily there are a lot of blessings to be seen, so even though it's an inconvenience to be sure and not something we were anticipating, I suspect it will all turn out okay. 

Yesterday was the 100th day of school! This girl celebrated and had a gay old time. And I am SO incredibly thankful for the fact they've been in school all this time without incident. 

Last but not least, this kid had his first Reconciliation this morning. He did a great job. He was a little nervous at home but when his teacher told him where to go, he hopped right over. No tears. (Which to be honest, I counted as a real possibility.) 

Then every kid got a donut and drink to celebrate their squeaky clean souls. And golly I am so proud of him!!

So that's what's going on in this neck of the woods. The good news is that it's going to be above freezing this week!!!! And I have never been more excited for 34 degree weather in my life!