It has been a long time since I have written anything.
Since my last post, (uh 2013) I have watched my children grow up, moved to a new house, new school district(technically twice), went back to school, earned my associates degree, watched my last baby enter school, and I am currently digesting the fact that this is our last year of elementary school.
Needless to say it has been a rollercoaster of emotions since 2013. I believe that year I also attended my first, and only out of the country trip. I am hoping though, there will be many more trips to come.
Now I am on to working on a host of other things, all while still trying to raise my wonderful, crazy sometimes bratty rugrats that I adore so very much.
This school year my oldest entered his sophomore year high school. He will likely get his license in a less than two months (oh we just had a drop in insurance last month, how's that for irony?) He turns 16 in October, but thanks to the driving school being less than stellar in customer service, he still has 4 lessons to go with them before being ready to take the drivers test. So while he turns 16 in a short week, he won't be finished with driving lessons until if we are lucky, uh November.
So today, I had a conversation in the car with my older two kids.
Now this conversation might seem random, because honestly until I had my second kid, I'm not sure I ever thought about it.
My second oldest says, "I think my birthday falls on Memorial Day?". Now I haven't looked at the calendar because ultimately even planning a birthday in May while I am in the midst of planning well, 1, if not all three of his siblings birthday prior to his birthday.
So he gets excited because he thinks YAY no school, when he was born, it was Memorial Day so the idea was exciting because what kid doesn't want to have no school on their birthday.
So this leads to my oldest saying, how can your birthday be on Memorial Day? It's always the same date.
So, I pull out my I have no idea where I actually learned it from card, and go in and explain Holidays. Memorial Day is a specific day, as opposed to date. So Christmas, it falls on December 25th, so you open presents on a different day every year.
Off topic for a second, I honestly would vote for a Christmas present opening day, to be the same day every year, right after the Christmas break starts. This is so you aren't hiding gifts from greedy little children hunting the house to find them when you're busy with other stuff. So you open presents at the beginning of break, and they aren't bugging you with I'm bored, cause it seems these days those items only last through Christmas break anyway. Who is with me??
Honestly I'm not sure he quite understood me, but it was all I had from my low amount of useless knowledge that I had hiding in there.
So then of course I thought about Easter and how I have many times looked up how it is Easter has such a large window for when it falls, sometimes March, sometimes April (oh and its awesome when its earlier, Easter candy clearance for the youngest kids birthday in April. ) Yes I am that mom!!! One year, I threw her a birthday with NOTHING but easter clearance. She was in love with Frozen, again.
So not completely out there crazy from my kid, it was kind of funny that in his many years of being alive now, he hadn't realized where birthdays fall (specifically his brothers, but also his aunts) on the Holiday one year but not the next.
I'm a summer birthday, so I always had no school on my birthday. Unless you count summer school, which I attended because I wanted to attend (no seriously I wanted to graduate early).
So if you're still with me, let me know!?!? Outside of that, I did start an Instagram for my dogs. Sven and Mal.
