The Nelson Narrative

Last Thursday was Olivia's LAST last day of K-12!  I can't believe it! Kayley is in Running Start so she still has a week and a half or so to go. Their high school has a cool tradition where every year after the final assembly the seniors all board buses and go back to their elementary and middle schools.  It's really fun for them to reconnect with staff and take a trip down memory lane.  

This weekend was full of senior activities for the girls.  Saturday evening was the annual Senior Car Parade.  This is a fun tradition that started during Covid. Since there was no graduation ceremony, this was a safe alternative and then it just stuck. It ended up being a beautiful night for it which was so nice. Olivia and two of her friends rode together in one of the friend's dad's pickup, and Kayley rode with 3 of her friends in someone's Jeep.  We actually somehow missed Kayley when she went by, but luckily I was able to steel this photo from the school district's IG. Olivia in the middle with her WSU gear on Kayley 2nd from right Then, today was Senior Sunday at our church, so they did a slide show of all the seniors and then they went up on stage and received a gift and were prayed over.  I remember having something similar when I graduated way back when. 11 days until graduation!  

                                        It's the last Wednesday of the month which means it’s time for What's Up Wednesday, hosted by Shay and Sheaffer . What We're Eating I am typing this on Monday, and it's a holiday and I'm busy with cleaning/errands/projects (because what else are work holidays and weekends for?) so tonight we are keeping it very simple with frozen pizza and salad.  Tomorrow and Wednesday we have some Hello Fresh meals, Thursday will probably be spaghetti or tacos, Friday we will probably go out or get Thai take-out, and Saturday is game night at our friends', but it's also the Senior Car Parade, so we will miss the dinner portion of game night and probably just eat leftovers before heading over there. What I'm Reminiscing about The girls graduate in 17 days (15 when I publish this) so I've been reminiscing about them being little. What I'm L...

May 13 was our 20th anniversary!  We were originally planning on going to Fiji but the girls' graduation trip plans fell through, so we ended up cancelling that and we are taking them to Costa Rica instead.  So for our anniversary celebration, we went to dinner at Alder and Ash and then saw Phantom of the Opera.  This was my third time seeing the musical.  It is my favorite. The next day (Thursday) we left on a little get-a-way to Seabrook--just us and the dog.  Seabrook is a little town on the coast with a cute little town center and most of the homes are Cape Cod style and have names like "Seas the Day", "Sand in the Toes", "Rain Oar Shine", etc. We actually stayed in a tiny little one-bedroom cottage.  It was so cute!  We got there Thursday afternoon, settled in, picked up a pizza and salad for dinner, then took a long walk with the dog down to the beach. On Friday we fixed a nice breakfast in our house then went to the town center and walked around...

We had a busy weekend.  On Saturday, we left a little after 10:00 to drive almost 2 hours to my Dad’s.  He recently moved into an assisted living facility.  After visiting and having lunch with him there, we went to his old place that he and my step-mom (who just moved into a memory care facility down in the Portland area) just moved out of to pick up a mini fridge for the girls (one or the other) to have for their dorm room.  We got back home around 3:30, then we packed up to head over to Crescent Bar.  We just sold our condo there, so we needed to clear out some personal belongings before closing on Wednesday.  It wasn’t quite warm enough to use the pool yet, but we did go in the hot tub Saturday night, and then on Sunday we took a nice walk with Kona and she got to play in the river a bit and run around in some of the grassy areas. It was very bittersweet selling the condo.  Paul’s family has been going there for over 40 years, and I started going w...