Welcome to my random bird-watching, thankful Thursday (except it’s Saturday), and week in review post! This is a combined catch up post if you don’t mind. It’s been a bit of a busy week.
Of course, I’m so thankful for the love of feeding the birds and bird watching I picked up from my parents. And to see the migrating birds making their way through our backyard again.
Stalking My Sparrows Plus A Few Others 
I’ve had to pick up my bird book a few times this week. I believe this little guy pictured above is a Lincoln’s sparrow! New visitor to our yard. A few more: 
Not the best quality photos as we’ve had rain and/or clouds pretty much every day this week. Another sparrow that’s been hanging out with us is one of my favorites, the white-crowned sparrow: 
Such neat looking birds! Before I share the photos of a couple different species, I want to mention I’ve also seen but not caught on camera a song sparrow and (one I had to look up in the book again!) a Harris sparrow. Exciting times around our feeders. Including two more non-sparrow favorites, hoping for better photos soon:
This concludes the bird-watching part of my post. Moving on to more Thankful Thursday and Week In Review content.
Teacher Appreciation Week
This was teacher appreciation week and I worked a couple days of it. I’d have worked more but G had car troubles so I had to balance my work week with a chauffeuring gig. 
I love how the MPTO at my school includes me and the other substitutes in all their gestures. It is so kind and makes me really thankful that I took a chance on working at a small, private family run school about 6 years ago. A school that’s really grown I might add. The appreciation gestures included: K-coffee machines with coffee and cereal choices (for “cereal-ously” good teachers) on Monday, Lunch from Whataburger on Tuesday (I missed that one, bummer), plus the goodies pictured above, snacks on Thursday, and I’m sure something special yesterday as well.
Excited and thankful to have some of my summer schedule sorted as well including a week with an easy 7:00a.m. to noon shift.
Quick Recap of the Week
Before I end my post, here’s a quick recap of the things that have kept me away from the computer most of this week.
Monday, I worked at 7:00a.m to 3:30 shift, followed by a grocery store run. Thankfully, my favorite grocery store’s still doing the Monday gas discount with purchase. Very much needed.
Tuesday, a day of appointments.
Wednesday, another running around day plus the spring band concert. The kids were amazing as always!
Thursday, another crazy work schedule day. I worked 7:00a.m. to 1:30p.m., came home and picked J up from school, then returned to work from 3:00 to 4:30 as a favor to another teacher who needed to get somewhere before they closed at 5.
Finally, on Friday, I woke to find my fuchsia bloomed! Took G to work, met friends for coffee at new (to me) coffee shop north of the river (always love when I get to go on the bridge over the Missouri river). Went shopping at the nicer Target up that way. More chauffeuring. Concluded the day with take-out and a re-watch of Dr. Strange.
Weekend Plans
Looking ahead to the rest of this weekend, it’s still a little busy.
G was going to take me to the new Dr. Strange movie but I’d forgotten my husband and I had dinner plans with friends. So, hopefully, we’ll go next week when the crowds are maybe a bit better anyway.
For today, I plan to do a bit of laundry and yardwork, lots to be done outside.
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How was your week/what things were you thankful for in it? And finally, do you have any exciting weekend plans?
We had a lovely time at church this morning, a previous Reverend and his wife came to visit our church. It’s just a one off and they’re definitely not coming back. I use to clean their house for them and spent at least 3 years helping the lady at school. We chatted lots and we’re going to connect more through email. All our children have grown so tall and it was so nice to talk, to catch up and it seemed like the old days. Sadly it’s not but it really felt good today & the message was good too. Great bird photos, their oh so tiny feet. Take care Jean and have a good week.
Sounds like a nice day! Thank you, glad to have captured the sparrows because they’ve all appeared to move on besides my resident house sparrows. Seems very quiet in the mornings without hearing the white-throated sparrows singing. Hope you have a wonderful week as well!