It was someone’s brilliant idea to have a school spirit day this week.  Don’t they know it’s teacher appreciation week, final spring games, graduations, recitals, mother’s day,  banquets, and birthdays (and I’m sure I’m forgetting something else!?)  Don’t they know that every mom is walking around a total zombie right now?  I’ve had the same outfit on for 2 days AND walked into the school twice wearing it!  I’m sure it has chocolate stains on it somewhere.  So embarrassing!

Thankfully, I have the most resourceful and creative kids!  Reece is an elected student council representative for the 3rd grade at Manchester Park Elementary, so you better believe she is going to be participating in a spirit day!  After her final STUCO meeting on Monday, she went right to work on her idea for her “future career” outfit.  She stole all my tape, took computer paper out of the printer, and did some late night crafting in her room.  This happens often.  Someone please get this girl her own bucket of tape so she will stop taking mine!!

Waking up to this creation on Reece’s bedroom floor puts the biggest smile on my face.  She has a creative mind and apparently she also has aspirations to be a server at SPIN! Pizza!?  I love it.  Maybe she’ll own the chain someday?  Aim high, Reecie Cups!

I did try to help her out a bit and called SPIN! Pizza yesterday to see if they sold shirts.  They don’t, but they kindly offered me some stickers and a pizza box.  The manager even said he would order me a shirt but there’s no time for that, so the next best thing is always the dollar section at Target.  I picked up a notepad that was shaped like a slice of pizza and by the time I got home from a soccer game and 3 baseball games last night, she had created this masterpiece!!

We had to reinforce this baby with A LOT of packing tape – it’s a little ‘crunchy’ when she bends to sit down, but how cute is she!?  I think they should hire her to be their marketing manager.  She would rock it!

And then the choice was easy for Drew and A LOT less work – a basketball player, of course!
Happy last spirit day for the 2018-2019 school year!!

 

I HATE that I haven’t written in over a month.  Literally every single day I have ideas or stories that I want to tell and every single day the time gets away from me.  This must be the phase of life I’m in right now.  Today my goal is to catch up here and to remind myself that mom’s are resilient, resourceful, and BUSY.

As we move into May, the busiest month of the year.  It’s not December, peeps, it’s May, trust me.  My adorable and precious Grammy turned 95 yesterday and she reminds me often of being resilient and resourceful.  Even when she doesn’t feel well, her sweet laugh and love for family always shines through.

It’s evident she taught my mom a few things along the way, and we all know how awesome she is too!  Every once in awhile when I question the chaos that surrounds our household most days, I usually put it in perspective and realize my own kids are learning so much.

Morgan is always gracefully taking on her busy life.  Here she is leaving for school with everything she needs…

She’s successfully completed life guard training, she’s already years into her neighborhood mowing career, volunteering in the 1st grade Sunday school class often, securing a nanny position for the summer, and jumping in to help anyone in need – such as our friend Stacey as she was struggling opening a bottle of wine.  Oops…how did that one slip in here!

Don’t worry, my dad has already taught her how to be a wine opener/server at all Michie family functions.  She could be a successful waitress tomorrow if she needed another job.  But for now, she’s already over-committed this summer.  I’m never going to see her!

Drew is also learning a few important things.  Like getting his uniforms laid out for a baseball tournament.  I love this organization.  When I said be prepared for the cold, he took my directions very seriously.  Look at all these layers!He’s also learned that baseball can turn on you in an instant.  Like when you’re winning the game without feeling in your hands because it’s FREEZING, and somehow after 2 hours, you’ve lost.  However, he’s also learning to sprinkle in some fun along the way and everything is better with cheeseburgers, ice cream and friends!

Daily, he reports back to me what he’s doing in school, checks his grades in the app, and a full run down of school drama – who’s being bad, which girls are annoying, who’s dating who — WHAT!? in 5th grade!?  Back it up here, bud, there’s no dating in elementary school.  Thank goodness he agrees.  Hard to believe he went to PRT last week for his first look at a day in middle school!He will forever be the one that steals everyone’s hearts.  Look at how attentive he is to our new cousin baby Maggie…

And he lets me make his allergy pills out of essential oils.  Now that’s love 😉

Reece is well on her way to topping off her very own bank account with $500 as she started her first mowing job!  I love a girl that is determined to create her own wealth at the age of 8 years old.  Go girl!

She’s working so hard spending 7+ hours a week at the gym training, eating her greens, crafting and creating every chance she gets.  This resourceful girl can play for hours by herself!  Her brain comes up with countless creative concepts.  She turns a piece of paper and some tape into a wonderland of make-believe.

Jake is turning into the teenager we always knew he would.  Gorgeous, funny, smart, and forever a lover of sports.He now has Instagram and Snap Chat.  We’re working on common sense and appropriate amounts of screen time.   Yikes!  I’m hoping I’m not the only teenage boy mom working on this, because it seems to be an uphill battle.

He has a big heart, a big fro (he needs a haircut!), and a big stomach — he eats constantly.  His knees and feet are always hurting because he’s growing so fast and I’m trying to fix him with shoe inserts and essential oils.  Moms do whatever it takes to make their kids learn, grow and also not hurt!  I even sit at soccer games in St. Louis with sleet pelting me in the face.Jake is determined.  He does his job on the field every. single. time. even when he’s soaked and cold and despite him being a teenager, I do learn from him often.  Resilience at it’s finest.

Congrats KC Bulldogs on a very hard fought Finalist position in the Rawlings Grand Slam Tourney.

So as I close here, I do want to share a few more things that have happened within the Conley Crew recently!!