A Ton of Fun 2021: Week 2 Recap

We survived an entire week of 2021. I mean as the Agozzino family- we were flawless! The country, well...that's another issue.

Monday was the last day of the kiddos break. We ended up grocery shopping and stopping by my favorite store. Don't let the picture fool you. While they hate thrift shopping, they both walked out with something they wanted! 

Isaac also wrote a play and Olivia worked on the scenery with leftover cardboard from Christmas boxes. She colored it in with chalk though. Wouldn't recommend chalk on cardboard. It's everywhere! Here are some fun pics of Maw and Paw helping them act out the play. Too funny!

 Tuesday the kiddos went back to school and all the regular running   to sports practices, tumbling, classes, etc. has kicked in. We   certainly welcome it, as the alternative is sitting at home   quarantined. Yuck. 

Our world continues to get more politicalized, which I hate all things that go with politics, but I know that I have to at least know they exist. Wednesday Jan. 6, our U.S. Capitol was taken over, leaving four people are dead after President Trump supporters breached one of the most iconic American buildings. More history in the making I guess... all after Trump urged his supporters to fight against the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes that will confirm president-elect Joe Biden's win, which continued anyways later that evening. Oh, and Friday Twitter banned Trump's account, which also made national news. 

All right, back to sunshine and rainbows...Saturday brought about swim meets and basketball games. Kids are doing great at swim. Both improved their times in all their events, but Isaac did get DQ'ed in the breast stroke because his goggles fell off when he dove in and he grabbed the side to put them back on. Can't do that. 

Another fun thing Jerm and I started as a couple was a colon cleanse. Yep, you read that right. Nothing like cleaning out your system and doing it as a couple for a memorable romantic moment. lol. The drinks you take for a WEEK are disgusting. But Jerm does it every year and I thought I’d join him this year so I don’t have to cook for us this week. Well, so far, I’m not a fan. Where is the sugar?! 

Sunday ended with the Browns win in playing in their first playoff game against the Steelers. This made for a happy husband, so I’m including it!

A Ton of Fun in 2021: Week 1 Recap

Party It Up: Ringing in 2021!

I've finally decided what I want to do in 2021.  It's simply too much to expect I'll actually post daily.  So instead, I'll make it a weekly goal to blog about our 2021~ Here we go with Week 1. Maybe at the end of 2021, I'll have a virtual scrapbook of the year. 

I will dip into the end of 2020 with this first post about meeting the newest to the 'extended cousin' family.  Since we typically spend NYE with our friends who have kiddos (who frankly look like cousins) who are our kiddos ages, we decided to visit a few days earlier to make up for our broken tradition this year. Madelyn Grace was born while we were in Disney, so we didn't want to bring any crud back to her, so after quarantine of at least 14 days, we finally got to meet the newest baby doll. Such a precious bundle and loved all three hours of snuggles I was able to get while visiting.

   

Jeremy had to work Monday-Wednesday to close out the year. Greatest news was that he was promoted and got a raise. We were super appreciative since he was seen as an essential worker this past year and only gets 7 paid holiday days off. He decided (on his own) that he would do something extra special for the kiddos with the few extra dollars he earned. After work on Wednesday, we rewarded the kiddos with a hover board and electric scooter for their all A's grade cards. While this wasn't atypical for Olivia, it certainly was an accomplishment for Isaac who has been working his butt off! Now, this was all Jeremy and neither were approved prior to arriving on my front door step this afternoon. UGH. I really, really don't feel comfortable with the hover board. But Olivia started asking for it the day before Christmas, so Jeremy knew Santa couldn't get that gift delivered under that quick of a turn-around, so he decided to do this instead. Both were super excited and decided to load them up and take them with us to the lake with lots of open land! Olivia ended up falling and having road rash all over her hip and down her leg. UGH. Can we box it up and send it back yet?!

Next up was New Year's Eve 2020. Yep, after this year of a global pandemic that is still lingering, most are ready to bid it farewell. Since we are celebrating Christmas with my parents on New Year's Day, we were surrounded with family this year for NYE. All four kids were up the entire night. We took shots of Crown Royal XR to toast to the new year. Dad said he had been saving this special drink for a special occasion. Making it to 2021 was certainly a special occasion! We also played the game "It's all Relative." Pretty funny and lots of laughs until the wee hours of the morning.

Next morning was New Year's day... or Christmas in our case. We let the kids unwrap their gifts first so they could go play while we unwrapped our gifts too. Here are just a few of pictures of the many surprised faces that happened. Olivia got two Harry Potter Lego sets she was over the moon about and a tie-dying kit 🙄(I said should stay at the lake, but somehow made it's way back here to our home.) 🤣 Isaac's favorite gifts were his Top Golf gift card and a cruise ship. We were suppose to be on a cruise ship this coming week with all these people in the pictures, but COVID had other plans.

Another tradition that we would like to keep up is taking a picture with the grandkids and grandparents. For the first time EVER, they were old enough to follow commands and I think we finally got a good one in like 3 minutes. No shenanigans were needed. So their reward for doing this so quickly and easily was to do a funny picture as well. Sometimes I think the funny pictures are a truer representation of the circus that our family truly portrays. Love this people to pieces and so happy they're are my monkeys in my circus! 🐒

If you are still reading, I'm not sure why? This is turning into a novel. But after a magical day of Christmas, we made prime rib, mashed potatoes, asparagus, corn, rolls, fried rice and shrimp to ring in the new year and lots of goodies to snack on for the big night. Ohio State Buckeyes played the Clemson Tigers in the Sugar Bowl to determine who would go on to play for the national championship. OSU was the underdog, but the Clemson coach had given some motivation by publicly declaring he would rank them 11th in the country and certainly not third. Well OSU came out with a 49-28 win and we all got to celebrate the victory together! I don't have many pictures, because honestly I was nervous and didn't want anyone to think I jinxed us by snapping a picture. Jeremy is psycho about these things.

The next morning we all slept in. Since we had been up past midnight the past two nights, peeps were tired. Mom and I had made coco bombs for the kids for Christmas. She had bought the molds and we tried our hand at it. They're not as easy as they look, but we eventuality figured it out. I think all the kids but Olivia tired them out and they all approved.

In all this madness of this week, Olivia lost TWO molars! Yes, the first one was on Monday when she bit into something and said it became loose. She worked at it for hours. Look at how deep the root was 😳and full of blood. YUCK. The second molar was loose before and she had auntie Amanda pull it out on Friday night. Tooth fairy brought her $3.25 for each molar under her pillow even though she wasn't even home. She said they must have a tracking device on those teeth!

Saturday afternoon we headed back to the homestead. We tried to put things away. I did capture this video of Isaac playing Township. He's had this app for around 4 years now and has built himself quite the township. He was so concerned when he got a new iPad for his birthday that the app wouldn't transfer and all would be lost. But, thankfully he's still going strong. Watching Garfield and playing Township. Life is good.

Week 9, Day 41 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Last day of 2nd Grade- Olivia and 3rd grade- Isaac

Isaac with mask

Olivia with mask

Congrats to Olivia

Congrats to Isaac

Love these two

He's choking her and their whining lol

Soon to be a 3rd grader

Soon to be a 4th grader

Week 9, Day 40 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Today is day 40. I always think that the 40 days between Ash Wednesday and Easter FLY by.  Right?  Now these last 40 days...not so much. But we finished up assignments on schoology today. We didn't have too much to do. We are officially done online. Of course, because I still run a tight ship, we are not officially done until tomorrow. I have some fun things planned. Hopefully the rain will stay away long enough to take some pictures I have planned.

Today we went for physical activity on the bike path at Heritage Park. I got my run in and the kiddos rode their bikes. We rewarded ourselves for finishing before the storm with Dairy Queen.  (BTW- new cotton candy hard-dip cone 🥰)

Both continued to work on their writing prompt books finishing up what they though of the year and school (minus Cronona). I think they both have one more page to finish up and then I'll take the pictures and make into books.

They both read to me tonight too. I let them pick any book.  I'm going through clothes and books and listing them on Facebook, so they picked from the pile that was out. Both were super easy books for them, but I don't think they cared. I certainly didn't care that they were done so early.

The final thing they did tonight was go over to church for a quick program they had over there. It was only 30 minutes, but they said they enjoyed it.  That's a win!

I'm closing tonight with a text I got from Jeremy.  It's so stinking sweet and I want to document it because otherwise it will get lost in the mix of life.  Since I have high hopes of turning these blogs into little scrapbooks, I want this to be included. I love our little family so much.

Week 9, Day 39 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Nearly 40 days of this nonsense. I'd say that's a lot of blogging, but a couple of summers ago I did the 88 days of summer everyday, so that qualifies as crazy.

Today is the LAST day that they are suppose to assign any new work to be done. We got notes from both kiddos gym teachers saying that they hadn't turned in anything this entire time. #momfail #teacherfail Yep, we didn't. I didn't know they were suppose to submit anything. I checked it out the first, maybe the second week, and seen that they had posted things but there were no assignments. So I applauded them for not making something a requirement, because believe you me, the Agozzino's would be FORCED to participate in physical activity, so no need to mandate. Well shoot, I spent a good chunk of today today submitting 6 weeks of submissions telling them what we did for gym.  🙄 Dang good thing I keep these blogs.  I even documented this stuff! #momrebound #teacherpivot

We also continued to work on our writing prompt booklets about the school year. Isaac also got special drop-off from Mrs. Kristoff and Ms. Cady, but he wasn't here when they stopped by sadly. He got a trophy for 'nicest' which is just perfect for Isaac. He really does have a heart of gold.

This afternoon Olivia got a jump start on her 4-H project when she planted her pumpkin seeds. I'm praying they grow or I'll have one really sad little cloverbud. We didn't plant them until today because it's Ohio, and we've had to look like hillbilly heaven the last week, covering up our flowers and veggies since it's still frosting at night. UGH.  If the weatherman doesn't lie, we should be done with that for awhile now, so we planted the pumpkin seeds.

Week 9, Day 38 of the CrononaCrazy Day Drills

Wowzers, today was jammed packed with FUN. Today was field day.  Remember that fun day where you get to play outside all afternoon.  Yep, except ours was filled with a bike ride with maw and paw at Ottawa Metro park.  We loaded up our bikes and went on the bike path.  I had never been very far on the path, so I was probably just as excited as the kids to explore. We loved it. I was originally going to run, and was pretty stoked that I took my bike instead so we could go further. Who knew it went right by the Whippy Dip ice cream stand?  This needs to be included in our schedule.

Now as far as school was concerned, we did get our math and reading done. I took a picture of Isaac in his 'spot' because he loves to sit there with his iPad on the floor and his head up against the couch. So funny.  We also got to bible time today (today's lesson was on Ruth) and the kiddos got to Zoom call with their church class. They did a cool scavenger hunt and we were at maw and paws since we were loading up the bikes, so they were running through her house finding things. At one point Isaac went running by with Paw's toothbrush!

We also had baking class today. Group effort.  Peanut butter blossoms. I don't care if it's a holiday or not, these should be a normal cookie to bake in my book.  Olivia is always the fastest un-wrapper, so we task her with that chore. Isaac, well he says he's the best mixer, but I'm pretty sure he's licking the beaters over there. They turned out great and they'll be gone in 2 days.

The last thing we worked on today was our writing prompt books that Mrs. Gomez sent home with their school supplies.  It's a book that they must have filled out at the end of the school year because it asks questions like who you sat beside and who was your teacher. It's a little book and pretty cute. I've asked the kiddos to take their time, so we're only doing a few pages a day and when we're all done, I might take pictures and upload to snapfish to make little keepsakes for them. It's a pretty unique last 9 weeks, and school year in general, so it might be fun to look back on them later.