BR is awesome and has been working hard and diligently saving up some of his incentives at work. They are able to earn "spotlights" and they translate into gift cards. They can choose from a variety of restaurants, activities, stores. Instead of splurging on himself, he has unselfishly decided to share them with us.
We received 6 of these in the mail in the past 24 hours...
As BR says, "That's a lot of Mickey Money"!
And because of this Mickey Money, we were SUPER excited to let Pooks in on our secret.
Notice how she glances over at my hand to see if there is anything new and shiny on it? Ahem, BR. I am not the only one, haha.
We told her on Friday, which happened to be April Fool's day. About an hour after dinner, she panicked- "Wait!! This isn't an April Fool's Joke, is it!?" Jeez, Pooks. Give me some credit. I am not THAT mean!
We are all SUPER excited about this vacation. And we are SUPER grateful to BR for being such a hard working guy and for loving us enough to take us on this dream vacation!! Never in a million years did I think we would ever be able to pull this type of cruise off. :)
We are still in the planning stages, but definitely all have tropical paradise and Mickey on the brain!
On a side note...feel free to stop reading, these are more for my memory and reference. ;)
Things I want to remember about this week:
Pooks skipped recess and lunch to spend time with Ms. Kutch and finish her independent study. I am so proud of her. And me. ha. I didn't help AT ALL with this. She managed to keep herself organized, keep herself somewhat on her timeline with little prompting, and wrote her paper with little input. She wrote a two page research paper, a snowboard and a google slide presentation. She is 9. I am pretty sure at that age I was hanging out on the playground singing NKOTB songs with my friends. She has matured so much this year. It is so bittersweet.
This week was really windy. And rainy. And there were a million birds in our yard. One of them got stuck in our garage. Pooks tried so hard to lure it out by giving it verbal directions. I didn't have the heart to tell her it couldn't understand. :)
We signed her up for the Great Train Race! Pooks as a runner!? I never thought I would see the day. She is doing running club after school. We have been talking a lot about how awesome having a strong body is. This comes after some comments she has made about the way her body looks. She wore a bra to school today for the first time...I am beside myself. We are now entering the thick of body image. I am sad to hear her make comments while holding on to her skin on her back and thinking it's fat, and I am hoping that it is a reflection of something she has overheard and NOT her true feelings. Either way, we will continue to promote a strong, healthy body and do our best to love herself no matter what.
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