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- Our big boy lost his first tooth this week!!
We discovered that his tooth was loose about 10 days prior (he walked into the kitchen and was talking to me – and I noticed that his tooth was sideways!) It’s been an interesting ride the last week and a half – some days he was excited about losing a tooth like his cousins Alethea and Alex, but other days he would get this super concerned look on his face and declare that he didn’t want to lose his teeth ever.
On Halloween afternoon – he was wiggling his tooth and it was just barely hanging on. We knew that all it needed was a good pull and it would be out. Leander wiggled and wiggled, but couldn’t quite bring himself to do it, so Derrick stepped in and volunteered to help our boy out. Sure enough – one small tug and it was out!! The look on Leander’s face was complete shock! It was hilarious! (And thankfully, I got it all on video!) I was slightly worried that he would freak out or would be sad, but he was instantly all smiles and super delighted! I was just glad he lost it while we were at home and not while we were out trick or treating!!
(If you’d like a stroll down memory lane – here’s Abby’s Saturday #334 I wrote when Braelynn lost her first teeth – we replicated the photo too! Her hair was so long! And Abby was so much less gray!) - So we rolled straight from Leander losing his tooth to dressing up and going trick or treating! Halloween this year was exceptionally cold. Temps were in the 30’s and we even got our first snow of the season later that night! (It was literally those memes that show “October 31 – Halloween, November 1 – Christmas” – because we woke up on November 1st with snow falling!)
Anyways, we bundled the kids all up using all of the tricks we’ve learned with going to amusement parks around the holidays for Christmas events – and we set out! Leander started to get cold and tired toward the end of our walk, but we made it and the kids came home with literal boatloads of candy. I’m not sure if we’ll ever eat it all – it’s crazy how many treats they come home with every year after trick or treating around our neighborhood (I must confess, I’m partial to the houses that give out bags of chips and drinks – but the house that was giving out hot apple cider and hand warmers won for “best treats” this year!) - Otherwise, it’s been a hectic week – I always have a running to-do list (I use an app called Todoist and it syncs between my phone and computer – I love this app! I keep grocery lists, blog post ideas, schedule recurring to-dos, it’s awesome!), but this week I progressed to a to-do CALENDAR in order to break everything down and get it all done (and to be able to see it more from a “bird’s eye view”).
Over the course of last weekend and Monday, I created and scheduled 7 blog posts, 39 Facebook posts, 48 Instagram posts, 15 Instagram reels, 3 long-form YouTube videos, and 31 YouTube shorts for the 4 different business “entities” Derrick and I run (XscreamThrills, Kara Abbey Photography, The Adventuring Abbeys, and Down Abbey Lane). Was it insane? Yes. But since I had it all parceled out over several days, it actually wasn’t so bad at all.
Why the huge scramble to pre-write/create and schedule out so many posts? Well, let’s just say: we have some big things coming up that I wanted to be able to be fully present for and I didn’t want to have to worry about writing blogs, creating content, and posting on social media. And since I accomplished it all – our businesses will continue to run automatically, while we are off doing “something else” (more on that soon!)
