Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Saturday

We started out Holy Week with some Easter fun!

We watched Mass online with the Bishop and Fr. Greg and then in the afternoon watched Miss Jodi in the Atrium. 

 We painted Eggs for  Easter decorations 

 Mom of the year! Got out all the play-dough stuff so the kids could play with the homemade play-dough

POGS!!!!!

 Working on our Eggs some more.. it took a couple days so they could dry and such

 This kid cracks me up on what he picks to wear. He's such a country kid!

 Pepper is still struggling with the puppy, but she's been coming up more and more. She also figured out that Cole and Grady were outside, so she came upstairs to enjoy both bones!

 lots of walks.. and normally we let the puppy run to keep him from picking on Cole

 More painting :) This time a table runner

 I went to work out and came back to everyone sleeping waiting for me.

 We made cut outs to hand out to some of our favorite people

 Max worked really hard on his card

 I got to help "decorate" our school windows

What a busy weekend. It was a good one, but still busy. I feel like I get a wee little bit of downtime and then everything is rush rush rush.  We had a 5 day weekend this past weekend. Well the kids did, teachers had to report for a seminar on Mindfulness and mental health. I know that it was suppose to be more about how to handle students, but I found it to be helpful for me. Grief has presented itself as a way for me to find me, and in doing so  I'm presented with different emotions that i don't normally deal with. My sounding block and the one who kept me sane is no longer here, which means i must deal with everything on my own. It also means changes in me.  I don't want to change, but i feel like it's for the better down the road. So that was my friday. The kids got to enjoy the day with Nana and had a blast.
Saturday we headed up to sheboygan to see the family up there. We did a cookout at Aunt Rachel's and then just hung around Grandma's. It was perfect and relaxing. The kids had fun and it was nice catching up.

 Sunday it rained in the morning, but we lazed around Grandma's house and got to enjoy waffles and bacon. THen as we got up and moving the the rain stopped. Sun was shining as we got to the wade house.  The kids had a great time and we met up with Aunt Rachel, Uncle Joel, Alex and Sam.

I'm so lucky for Uncle Ben. The kids have so much fun with him and he does a great job with them. Hopefully we will be able to do more with him as the kids get older,too!
today was a so so day. We got stuff done at my mom's house, visited Josh's grave and got stuff done at home. I'm learning how much i can do on my own and who is there to help me.  It's still very hard for me to be alone. Today i wanted to go fishing with the kids, but I have no clue where to go, can't take off a fish and missing our poles. I miss that the most. Being outside doing things as a family. Josh was such an outdoors sportsman and i want to pass that on to my kids.   I've been trying to let things happen as they are meant to be and not stress over what i can't do, so i'm praying that there will be answer to my prayer of something to be outdoors with us.
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Missing pictures from Monday :(

Mothers day weekend

So this weekend turned into a mother's day weekend it seemed.  It started out Saturday morning with a meeting of the Jahnke family.  it was suppose to be for easter , but it was closer to Mother's day and three birthdays.  We missed a few family members but saw quite a few. We went to Benvento's and had a private room for the kids to be able to run around.

 it's awesome that the kids could color on the table. This kept most of them quite entertained.

Uncle Ben seems make my kids so crazy ;)
After eatting, Grandma, Tim and Uncle Ben came back to our place. Our trailer is finally getting moved. Bittersweet to see it gone, but at the same time, i'll be happy to have it gone.  MOre on those feelings later. So they came back to help me get it cleaned out. Then i made calls for help getting rid of the porch that needed to be disconnected.  Both Great Uncle Tony and Mr. B came over to help. In some crazy way, we got the trailer cleaned out, porch disconnected swing set moved and dumpster pretty much filled. I swear i just let whatever happened, happen and it all worked out.

taking out the stairs

the porch was pulled off by me in the skidsteer
After all the work, we went out to eat and then to visit Josh's grave.

 Happy early mother's day Grandma!

 the kids were playing with the trees and trying to get the pine cones

 Then they started to play hide and seek. Growing up i always went to the cemetery with my mom to visit our family's grave sites. It was never scary or weird  to me. I pray that my kids grow up feeling the same way.

 my sweet kids in front of the field across from the cemetery. I think it's pretty fitting for our family.

Playing with Uncle Ben again.
Sunday morning was mother's day. My sweet little boy was up around 530am and went to wake up his sister. Somewhere around 6ish am, they tried to give me my present but i asked them to wake until after 7am.
So at 7:01am they came in with gifts.  I got a sweet flower/handprint artwork from max along with a flower pot with handprint flowers. Bella made me a tea pot with some tea.  Then with the help of Nana the kids got me some flip flops, chocolate, and a decorative stone for outside.  We then had a lazy morning. I made some cinnamon rolls for a light breakfast.

At 11 we joined nana and Aunt Darlene for brunch in watertown. It was yummy and so nice to have a choice of foods, aslo no waiting for food either :) Once we had full bellies we headed to the Octagon House. I haven't been there since Bella was a tiny tot. the kids are interested in "olden days" stuff, so i thought it was a good time. Since it was mother's day, Nana and I got in free and max was free too. So only paying for one made it totally worthwhile. The kids did great. Max raised his hand to ask questions, and Bella knew history. I think they had a good time. I didn't take too many pictures since it was a quick moving tour.

After this, my mom took the kids home and I got to go to Tractor supply and kohl's by myself. It was so nice to be able to shop for me. I almost bought stuff for the kids but put it back. Today was about me. :) When i got home Max and I set out to plant his corn.

We wrapped up Mother's day just hanging out outside, easy supper and being.