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Project 365 {week 20}

May 19, 2013 By kate 6 Comments

This week was my last “full” week of school.

Two more four-day weeks and it’s all over for another school year.

As usual, we kept busy, but thankfully this week was a bit less so.

May 12: happy low-key mother’s day to me!

May 13: Give the kid some boxes and you’ve got pure joy.

May 14: The Bird took a dive at daycare. Barely cried. Good Lord, we have a rough houser on our hands.

May 15: In an attempt to get out of a major mood funk, happy shoes!

May 16: New Rule: You Make the Mess? You Clean the Mess.

May 17: Brothers. Awwww!

May 18: Stomp Out Stigma walk for Mental Health with my sister-in-law, Sarah.

You get a bonus picture today…Something fun…

Oh that’s just me…in Babytalk Magazine…ON THE SAME PAGE AS ALANIS MORISSETTE!

So you know, I’m in print and stuff.

Woot!

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Project 365 {week 19}

May 12, 2013 By kate 7 Comments

WHEW!

May 5: Listen To Your Mother Show in Chicago with a couple of my favorite Jens.

May 6: First steaks on the grill. Cortney was VERY proud of the grill lines.

May 7: Teacher Appreciation Day

May 8: Tulip Time Parade with my little Dutch boys.

May 9: Another evening of Tulip Time…this time dinner from the street vendors.

May 10: Three hours to myself to get my hair cut and colored. Bliss.

May 11: Celebrating one of my best friends for her birthday. So many laughs with this one.

During this time of year, life has a tendency to feel like we are racing so fast we may start to tumble all over ourselves…

but it’s the kind of too fast and tumbling that you giggle through because the “end” is so close.

Happy Mother’s Day.

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Project 365 {week 18}

May 5, 2013 By kate 3 Comments

Oh look.

I didn’t forget that I had a blog.

Yeah, sorry about the light week.

Or, if you are behind in reading, you’re welcome. I totally did it on purpose.

For YOU.

Ahem.

Anyway. The week.

April 28: So this happens now.

April 29: One of our family fave recipes. Nothing about this is healthy or organic or paleo or whatever. It’s just yum.

April 30: I had a terrible day. But this guy? He has spooky glasses. Game on, indeed. Also…Bird legs photo bomb.

May 1: How we celebrate the first day of May: hot dogs on the grill with white. Nothing but class up in here. And Bird arm photo bomb. Kid gets around.

May 2: Just a quick stop at our local wooden shoe factory. Wait. You DON’T have a local wooden shoe factory? Weirdsies.

May 3: Graduation day! (hey, what about blue shirt photo bomb back there?)

May 4: Our Godson turns five and throws a Nerf Day Party. Battle on, yo!

I almost had an anxiety attack this week thinking about all that was on the calendar.

And today I will be in Chicago for the Listen to Your Mother show.

So much going on.

All good, but…so much.

Also four weeks (18 days) left of school.

Not that I am counting.

I am totally counting.

Happy Cinco De Mayo, kids.

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Project 365 {week 17}

April 28, 2013 By kate 4 Comments

Spring showed up this week!

You know, after SNOWING on Thursday morning.

And the shenanigans that is raising two little boys continued…

April 21: How does this kid get SO grubby when he eats?

April 22: Finishing off his meds for his ear infection. Kid takes meds well…almost TOO well. ::side eye::

April 23: Two months before he turns 4…and totally into the new Octonauts!

April 24: This kid and nudity!

April 25: Pink sippy? Who cares!

April 26: Took a personal day off from work…just in time for Spring to show up! (also? Charlie’s running legs photo bomb!)

April 27: The most perfect Saturday in the history of ever. Temp in the high 60′s with a slight breeze, playing outside, then out to dinner for my parents’ anniversary. Perfection in a day.

This week has been unbelievably awesome.

Aside from these weirdo hives I suddenly have that we have no idea where they came from.

But otherwise? We have had so much fun and felt so good this week.

Five more weeks of school until this becomes routine!

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Project 365 {week 16}

April 21, 2013 By kate 3 Comments

I am aware that Michigan weather is weirdsies, and that April showers are supposedly bringing May flowers, but COME ON.

This week we had temperatures ranging from almost 70 degrees to below 30 degrees.

We had so much rain schools closed because cities were in official states of emergencies.

Thursday I taught for 30 minutes before we lost electricity and went home an hour after that.

And then there were all those other horrible things that happened in ‘Mercia this week.

We tried to still find the good.

April 14: Charlie starts out his 14th month of life feeling like garbage. It’s like his little body is predicting America’s week.

April 15: I was going to try to take a pic a day of my working clothes. But the week was sort of…well, you know. This is pretty much all I got.

April 16: Teaching Close and Critical Reading, yo.

April 17: Feeling better thanks to an antibiotic to get rid of the ear infection.

April 17: Feeling better (and laughing lots) thanks to an antibiotic to get rid of the ear infection.

April 18: This guy gets one of the highest honors before graduation: He is in the top 5% of his graduating class. Boom.

April 19: Eddie wants nothing to do with pictures this week, so MORE BIRD!

April 20: My best friend in the entire universe is having a baby boy. There was a baby shower. And I might have happy-cried a little after so she wouldn’t see me.

With all the bad in the news this week, Sluiter Nation celebrated lots this week.

Cort was honored.

Our nephews had their second birthday party.

And my best friend will soon be a boy mom just like me.

When we remember this week, I want to make sure we acknowledge the tragedies, but really remember the joys.

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Project 365 {Week 15}

April 14, 2013 By kate 1 Comment

I think West Michigan was confused this week.

See, the calendar says it’s April and that it’s spring.

Yet we had 4 straight days of rain and 40 degree weather.

Blerg.

April 7: The last warmish day for a while. Looks like spring! Hello, Crocus!

April 8: On my way to work...red sky in the morning...you know the rest. This was the last time we saw the sun as of this posting.

April 8: On my way to work…red sky in the morning…you know the rest. This was the last time we saw the sun this week.

April 9: I try to “spring up” drab, winter clothing. I’d rather be wearing short-sleeves.

April 10: The silliness is strong with this one.

April 11: Eddie counts his Kindness Stones. So close to filling that bucket and choosing a reward!

April 12: New artwork to hang by my desk at work thanks to Eddie!

April 13: Wait. What is THAT? I guess we didn’t go sun-free for the whole week after all!

Today’s sun was a bit of a freak accident if you will.

It lasted about 30 minutes on and off and then it disappeared again leaving us with little hope of seeing it again for another week.

Ah well, we march on.

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Project 365 {week 14}

April 7, 2013 By kate 5 Comments

SPRING BREAK!

March 31: Happy Easter from the Sluiters!

April 1: Tigers first game, so per tradition my family gets together in our gear and acts ridiculous (pictured me, Bird, and my brother Chris)

April 2: Crazy Bounce with friends, nap with mommy, and make our own pizzas.

April 3: Too much fun yesterday. Recovering.

April 4: Off to a “new” friend’s house for coffee and playing. We hope this becomes a regular thing this summer!

April 5: 12 month Well Child…checks out SUPER!

April 6: Fun with one of our favorite families to watch the Final Four.

This was probably one of the best spring breaks in a LONG time.

We kept busy, but we relaxed.

We saw some awesome friends and played hard.

It was great.

Thanks to all our family and friends for the fun times.

Now we have the 8-week push to summer break!

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Project 365 {week 13}

March 31, 2013 By kate 4 Comments

Lucky 13.

My birthday week.

Also the week I was so busy with grades being due, my birthday, and Easter that I thought my face would fall off.

But then it was spring break and all was right with the world.

See?

March 24: Palm Sunday…sing Hosanna! Eddie was on Palm handout duty. {I posted this last week too because I didn’t want a week without Eddie in it}

March 25: This guy? Is starting to walk. Don’t let the holding on to the wall thing fool you. We have a toddler now.

March 26: Wearing read for #MarriageEquality. A post on my feelings about this later this week maybe.

March 27: Happy 35th birthday to me!

March 28: Ending the school week before going on break with the staff/student bball game at the junior high where I teach a couple classes.

March 29: SPRING BREAK!

March 30: A lovely, lazy Saturday to round out the crazy that was this week. Whew!

Hopefully this coming week will be LOTS of pictures of us having fun and/or relaxing.

Since I’m on Spring Break, Baby!

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Project 365 {Week 12}

March 24, 2013 By kate 3 Comments

Week 12 is otherwise known as “Just Get Me to Spring Break, Ok?”

March 17: Charlie works on his new car.

March 18: All of the things go in the mouth again lately. More teeth? Hold me.

March 19: Super Bird!

March 20: Wednesday night dinner at church.

March 21: My school is an awesome place to work.

March 22: Starting my day at the Junior High struck fear into my heart…and caused me to double up on my huge morning coffee intake. Don’t tell them, but I sort of dig them in the morning.