1) 3 cheers for early voting. I don’t look forward to the presidential race. It’s like watching a terrible dating show where they’ve brought out all the suitors and they are all terrible, and the contestant is still peering over at the curtain nervously asking, “uhhhh what else ya got back there? Wait what? This is it? Is there NO ONE ELSE?!”
2) My contribution to helping Reese be on time to seminary is to help Aaron get out the door. The man wakes up early but he does. Not. Rush. Ever. I try to press a week of shirts once a week for Aaron. This is a labor of love. This week, I taught Reese how to iron, and she also made a contribution to speed up the morning routine. If she had more time, I would regularly commission her to do this chore and win win win.
3) Reese has been working HARD, lately. She’s taking every babysitting and bathroom cleaning gig she can get. She’s got a monthly financial savings goal and she’s killin’ it. She’s got a plan to buy her car with cash and this is a plan that makes her mother so proud. Need a sitter? Your bathrooms cleaned? Your doggy walked? Give Reese a call to put her to work and pad her car savings fund. She is hard working and eager and is on the lookout for more opportunities to work.
4) I spent a couple hours trimming all the liriope on Saturday and cleaned out the front rock beds—filled up a trash bag full of house debris: staples, nails, metal, roofing H clips, several old roof shingles, broken ceramic tile, glass, melted hunks of metal, insulation, loads of trash including cigarette butts and monster drink cans and Gatorade bottles galore, and an entire roll of framing nails.
5) Lady/Grammy had a birthday! Reese, Julie and Finley S are her ministering sisters, so they planned a spring crafty day for her and invited Q and I, too. We made burlap bunnies and stuffed painted muslin carrots and covered eggs in book pages and moss. And we ate Shaw magic cookie bars so it was just the best time ever! I love you mom! Happy Birthday!
5) Lady/Grammy had a birthday! Reese, Julie and Finley S are her ministering sisters, so they planned a spring crafty day for her and invited Q and I, too. We made burlap bunnies and stuffed painted muslin carrots and covered eggs in book pages and moss. And we ate Shaw magic cookie bars so it was just the best time ever! I love you mom! Happy Birthday!
6) What do a twitching eye, 3 cold sores, restless legs, blown up neck glands, and Raynaud fingers have in common?
No idea, but they’re all flaring up at once on me. None of the blood tests I had done yielded any new or telling information.
7) for today’s naptime project, Sloane helped me start re-assembling new 72 hour kits for our family.
I spent $36 on food and everything will last until the end of the year, so we will swap it out October General conference weekend. I took a pic of the food so I will know exactly what to buy again!without having to think it over. Easy and done. I probably should add more protein. Maybe I will add some peanut butter crackers. That would be easier than some of the other meal ideas. It feels great to have SOMEthing again. My emergency “doomsday prepper bunker storage room was so well prepared for disaster. It destroyed me to watch it all get thrown in a dumpster.
8) I’m slowly beefing up our first aid supplies as well. There’s already a box of N95 masks in there, but a couple of washable N99 masks and a multipack of disposable carbon filters will arrive soon. I don’t really care that I sound like a paranoid alarmist. I have always felt called to prepared to help and lift another in the event of a disaster. We could’ve survived a pandemic quarantine for weeks down there. Haha! And then I had my own disaster and I learned a lot. So here we go again with new and improved knowledge. Water, First aid supplies, and food are the current focus. Below are some of the recent inspired purchases I felt to add to our supplies.
9) Today, Reese had an after school study group from 4-6 at the Bentonville library, Soren had soccer in Bentonville at 6, Q needed to be at OPYO rehearsal in Downtown Rogers at 5:50, and Corbin had soccer at 7:15. I made an early dinner (pork tacos, I ate mine in the car), took the triplets with me to deliver Q in Rogers, Aaron too the boys to soccer, I came home and bathed the triplets, unclogged an overflowed basement toilet, bleached the Bathroom, then cleaned the bottle of shampoo that Esme emptied and smeared all over my glass shower door during the 1 minute I left her unattended in the shower to go get a towel. I put the Littles to bed, went back to Rogers to get Q, Reese stayed home and continued on homework until 10:30 when we made her call it and go to bed. the boys came home wind chilled to the bones, showered and went to bed and I am sitting for the first time since the swings at Dave Peel Park, this morning, and the restoration crew will be here in the morning. Let the March Madness begin!
7) for today’s naptime project, Sloane helped me start re-assembling new 72 hour kits for our family.
I spent $36 on food and everything will last until the end of the year, so we will swap it out October General conference weekend. I took a pic of the food so I will know exactly what to buy again!without having to think it over. Easy and done. I probably should add more protein. Maybe I will add some peanut butter crackers. That would be easier than some of the other meal ideas. It feels great to have SOMEthing again. My emergency “doomsday prepper bunker storage room was so well prepared for disaster. It destroyed me to watch it all get thrown in a dumpster.
8) I’m slowly beefing up our first aid supplies as well. There’s already a box of N95 masks in there, but a couple of washable N99 masks and a multipack of disposable carbon filters will arrive soon. I don’t really care that I sound like a paranoid alarmist. I have always felt called to prepared to help and lift another in the event of a disaster. We could’ve survived a pandemic quarantine for weeks down there. Haha! And then I had my own disaster and I learned a lot. So here we go again with new and improved knowledge. Water, First aid supplies, and food are the current focus. Below are some of the recent inspired purchases I felt to add to our supplies.
I miss the peace I once felt knowing I had all of this already taken care of, but I’m trying to be patient and listen and research so the efforts I can make are the best ones. We’ll get there again and we will do it right.
9) Today, Reese had an after school study group from 4-6 at the Bentonville library, Soren had soccer in Bentonville at 6, Q needed to be at OPYO rehearsal in Downtown Rogers at 5:50, and Corbin had soccer at 7:15. I made an early dinner (pork tacos, I ate mine in the car), took the triplets with me to deliver Q in Rogers, Aaron too the boys to soccer, I came home and bathed the triplets, unclogged an overflowed basement toilet, bleached the Bathroom, then cleaned the bottle of shampoo that Esme emptied and smeared all over my glass shower door during the 1 minute I left her unattended in the shower to go get a towel. I put the Littles to bed, went back to Rogers to get Q, Reese stayed home and continued on homework until 10:30 when we made her call it and go to bed. the boys came home wind chilled to the bones, showered and went to bed and I am sitting for the first time since the swings at Dave Peel Park, this morning, and the restoration crew will be here in the morning. Let the March Madness begin!
1 comment:
1) exactly. I would never want to run for president, so I understand why others don't, but come on. Someone quality take one for the team. : )
2) Ironing destroys my goodwill. Could Reese come here, too? I'd pay in baked goods and ten dollar bills.
3) Go, Reese, go!
4) Duuuude. That is absolute crap.
5) That sounds like the best ever.
6) Yikes! I wish I could bring you soup and that the soup would have answers. Soup always understands. Reyaunds is so tough. My friend has it and always wears fingerless gloves. She says she feels like a hobo in a film from the 20s, but that it helps. I pray for answers and treatment for you, my friend.
7) Heck yes, Monica/Meg! I bet it was crushing to see it trashed. You worked so hard on those!
8) Great job.
9) I yawned reading about your season. I am praying for you to have a day to fill your bucket so you can continue to give as you do. <3
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