Froemmings

 Clara finally lost her first tooth that was stubbornly hanging on and annoying her to no end. She lost it at school and was able to hang onto hit to set it out for the tooth fairy that night. Last week was Davies HS homecoming and the middle school also took part in their own dress-up days. Brynn decided to dress up this day which was country vs country club. She attended the homecoming game on Friday night with a friend, so that was fun for her. Grandma Holly surprised Clara for her first of two games last Saturday. Their first game was at noon and Grandpa and Grandma Dietz made it to the second game at 3:00. There weren't a lot of kids who made it to both games so Clara was able to get a lot of play time in. Wearing down...haha. Clara's really been into tennis lately. I'm not a good instructor at all, unfortunately for Clara. I was never very serious about it myself, but just like to play casually. The courts were open at Kennedy School field where she plays soccer. Some...

Last weekend Cousin Ben came to stay and the girls had a fun time with him taking apart motors, playing and four-wheeling.  I worked from home one day last week to make a recipe for our blog and it was a beautiful day to be out on the deck. I made some quinoa carrot breakfast cookies . They sound gross, but I thought they were really pretty tasty. Brynn has been calling around to different business to see if anyone is hiring 13-year-olds. Unfortunately it seems you need to be 14 before you can work. So, until January rolls around, she's been doing some odd jobs for Dana to earn some money. It was a rainy evening one night this past week and it seemed like a good time to bake cookies and settle in with a book. Brynn had her nose in the books, so to speak, as well since she was working on homework. And I really do mean that figuratively as most of her school work is done on her personal learning device (computer).  Clara started fall soccer and is enjoying it again. They had the...

The girls waiting for the bus one morning this past week. Clara has officially mastered making pancakes all by herself now. Saturday afternoon and evening we celebrated my mom's birthday at the lake by catching and eating fish, gifts, cake and doing TikTok challenges and dances. Ollie and I tag-teamed fish frying. He was on top of coating the fish and I fried.  Grandpa tried out his popcorn maker on the fire.  And some fish too... Clara decided it was pretty good! Happy birthday, Grandma! We still had never actually spent the night yet at my parents' lake place in Lake Park, though the girls have several times. But, Saturday we finally did. Dana went on to his parents' to bring in our jet skis on Sunday morning and we stayed a bit longer at Duck Lake to have lunch at the new malt shoppe in town. The food and ice cream was really tasty.  Earlier this week Clara had found a recipe for some bread dough that she wanted to make. I told her Monday would be a good day to try it ...