Mid week....

The start of a crazy month and no stitching since Sunday! So, it is a wildlife blog entry.

Monday Greg headed up to Gainseville for the night for a sleep study. Emily and I had scouts and a stop to get ear buds for both kids as Aidan's had broken and he needed new ones for school.  They have computers in all the classrooms for them to work on in the various classes. 

Tuesday was early drop off for Emily for Horse Evaluation practice with FFA. Since Greg was not home - I had to have the boy get up early too and bring him. Normally Greg does this drop off and I get the regular one. We hit DD after dropping Emily to school and we parked at Lake Lillian - a little pond in a neighborhood about 7 minutes from their school. We were chatting as we ate breakfast (the boy had finished waking up by that point!) and watching the birds. 

I think these are white ibis.

Muscovy ducks we think. They came out of the pond and waddled toward me!

Some regular ducks were just paddling around the pond. our view from the car.

Tuesday the boy opted to stay late - so the girl got picked up normal time and taken home. I made some taco meat and then headed out to pick up the boy for 6PM from school.  After eating and doing his homework - it was a 'quick' trip to Kohls to pick up a flannel shirt for Aidan. He wears it as a light jacket when it is cool and his last one ripped on Saturday - it was a small and he is now a 5 ft 9  young man and a medium to large is a better size! It only took him 30 minutes to pick one.....sigh. He stayed to work on their robotics project for the next competition Feb 26. He will probably be staying late tonight and Thursday and wants an early drop off Friday. I told him not a problem - we are happy to get him to/from school (20 minutes away) for him to work on his project with his team. Friday will be a very early day - Emily will be up in Tallahassee with her grade for civics and exploring the state house and other things up there. They have a 5:30AM drop to school and a 9 or 9:30 PMish pick up. Her early horse eval days should be over after the State Fair competition on Feb 12 - another early drop to school for her to get to Tampa with the FFA. 

Girl Scout cookie pick up is this Saturday morning - I'll get a workout lugging cases of cookies from the truck into the house!

Emily will add to some late pickups with her extra band practices this month and a concert or two in the next few weeks. 

They are  keeping me hopping! Wishing the road project  that will be going through my house had progressed on time and we would have relocated a lot closer to the school of their choice with less driving time. With morning traffic - we plan on 50 minutes to get there for early drop offs. So far the late pick up traffic has not been too bad and it is about 25 minutes to get there. Lets hope the gas prices don't climb high in the next month!

Hopefully I will have a little progress to show tomorrow. I think I just have a Zoom girl scout leader meeting this evening... which I can stitch through!