Not afraid to beg
No, I am not. I am begging you my dear readers not to leave me. We’ve been extremely crazy here trying to get back on track with a decent schedule. All matters of life seem to be fighting against us and we are winning, but it remains a battle - daily.
- We got behind on the homeschool stuff thanks to Gustav and a few other scheduling issues. A few of our books got rerouted in the delivery system as a result and that led us to start a few subjects a bit late.
- I am finishing up two clients design orders.
- Grinding wheat and baking bread.
- Making Ginger Pear Preserves.
- Making and enjoying Pumpkin Bread - can’t get enough of this.
- Wishing I had coffee.
- Wishing my coffee pot had not died and wishing I could get a new coffee pot.
- Needing to go to the grocery store, but can not until another paycheck arrives or I finish with my clients designs (so I can get paid) so I can go to the grocery store. I had rice for supper last night. Seriously. Rice. There were just enough chicken tenders for the children. We are now down to bread and the pear preserves I need to make. OH and the wonderful farm fresh eggs we were given Sunday afternoon at the T Farm. I think we will be sick of homemade bread, pear preserves, and eggs by the 15th.
- Missing my husband as he is now working a second job - again. It is a very busy season and our paths just might cross every now and then.
- Soccer for two is back in the mix which means weekly practices and weekend games.
- Scouts for two is back in the mix which means leadership meetings, den meetings, and pack meetings.
- Popcorn season is fast approaching and I have begun the preparations. This will be my fourth? fifth? year as Popcorn chairman. I guess it will be my last as this is Goro’s last year with the Cub Scouts; he’ll be a Boy Scout next year. We’ll have a one year break before CowBoy is old enough. The district office is trying to get me to lead the district sales for all the troops and packs.
- I’m busily working on our church’s website to get it updated and all sorts of files uploaded.
All of this has my blog taking a back-burner right now and I’m none too happy about that. I have so much I want to write and pictures to share. I’m not gone; I’m just hit and miss these days. In the meantime, why don’t you tell me what you are up to these days. Tell me here or send me a link; I like rebooting my brain reading what all you are up to these days.
Sorry things are so nutty. On a selfish note-when you get a minute, I must have your pumpkin bread recipe.
I’d like the recipe too (why not add one more thing to the mix?).
I’ve been: moving, unpacking, going on a weekend trip, going on our vacation, hyper-extending my knee, and homeschooling. My blog is currently focusing on our fab vacation.
I hope life slows down for you a bit.
Praying for provision.
I’ve got to organize a round of home renovations (the sophisticated way of saying dereliction repairs) this fall/winter that will probably slam into the Holidays. [Note to self: put relatives and friends on notice, it’s me going to them, not the other way around this year.] Not my favorite activity–I don’t think any musician I know is particularly handy. Is SmockDaddy good at grout, tile, and hitting his thumb while hammering a nail?
Cap’n’s last blog post . . . Sock, Now Knob Gremlin?
Triple M - nutty is light. HA! I forgot to add that I’ve been weeding my way through all the summer clothes (read putting away the outgrowns to keep and getting rid of all the outgrowns not to keep) as I wade my way through our laundry as well as washing the previously stored outgrowns that I pray now fit the next version of SmockChild.
I’ll get the recipe up soon (bwahahaha)
GFG - let’s run away for a few hours and go have coffee (you know, a micro vacation)
Cap’n - you know I love my hubby, but I am the eagle-eye of detail around here and might I say quite mechanically inclined (I am the power tools lover in this house, really I am). It’s just all part of the mechanical aspect of my brain: sewing, building, web-design. As he said not too long ago it’s me that can read those instructions and put something together. I’m also the car-packer for any loading that gets done. He’s brilliant, genius level. We compliment each other quite nicely. You said it first: “I don’t think any musician I know is particularly handy.”
I hope it’s a good crazy, or at least a not-all-bad crazy.
What am I up to? I survived the black hole of despair yesterday, which is good. Trying to get on a schedule (why is it so hard to do things I know will be good for me?), trying not to lose faith and panic after only a week of homeschool, trying to endure. I hate these times. Trying to hold out for hope that it will get better.
Hmm… sorry to be a downer. Some weeks are like this, I guess.