Maya Road and Me

December

Well this December didn't turn out quite how I expected it to. Early in the month, my husband fell and broke his heel bone when searching around for our Christmas supplies. So this month has been a month of ER visits, surgery, hospital stays, and just in general a lot more work I have been doing to keep everything running at Maya Road and at home.

Here is David a day after surgery when he was home. And to be honest, with everything going on, I am just plain tired! Everything now has to be planned out if we need to get things done or around and such.

So along with work and everything we have needed to do for David's foot, I needed just to carve out some time to relax. I did do a 3 mile trail run that I had planned before David got hurt. Thankfully the ice was mostly gone but it was nice to get outside and just breathe and for 1 hour not worry about what I had to take care of next.

It has also been a month to remember for Noah. He has been working hard this last year with a 4th grade reading book I got him. This book is filled with 75 lessons complete with questions that he has to answer and vocabulary he has to figure out. I always believe there is no reason not to ecourage my children to do extra work if they have to. We work hard and we play hard. And I expec the same for my kiddos.

So with that said, Noah has been actively working to complete the last 10 lessons in the book before 2014 arrived:

So tonight, Noah was rewarded with a Lego Set he got at Christmas he could open:

Olivia has also been working hard with her reading lessons. She should be done in the next month or so. 

The kiddos have also been picking up slack due to David's injury. They created all our Christmas cards this year:

 

I am looking forward to a fresh start to 2014! Here is wishing the same for you and yours!

 

Goals

So over Thanksgiving, my family go to meet up with my sister's family and spend a glorious week together. We ate, we did math, we sewed, we toured, we hiked. we made balloon animals and we basically had lots of fun as a family:

I even set myself a goal of using 10 yards of fabric to make some creations (and to make a little dent in my stash)

So I made some comfy jammie pants for the boys in flannel (here is a hint 1 yard can pretty make up to a size 8 boy pair of flannel pants):

And the girls got coordinating dresses. Each one has the bodice lined in the same fabric and I used some similar colors so they could dress together and look (as they would call it "fancy")

 

My kids were so sad to leave. They never have cried when we left a place but this time they did. We told them we would see their cousins again soon. As hard as life can get with 5 kiddos 7 and under, they loved their time together. I only wish growing up I had that time to spend with my cousins.

And when we got home, we were back to the swing of things. I decided to start a daily December album:

Lots of fun goodies inside and I used lots of Maya Road including our Memory Journaling Binder. The original design is from our Holiday Journey Event and I added some special touches to make it my own.

More on the inside of the album soon!