Your in for a real treat today!!
I’m going to post everything that I do today! Check back later for updates!
7:05 – get up, talk with dh for a few minutes, say good bye to him, treat myself to a cup of hot chocolate while doing a quick email check, check on my blog, visit G~, shower, dress, strip the sheets of my bed, start those in the washer, restart the dryer, the load in there from last night is still damp. Tell Calen we’re not watching Full House today. Mel got up EARLY to watch the Waltons, anything that gets her up this early MUST be good! lol He doesn’t complain too loudly.
8:20 start the kids breakfast, pigs in a blanket. Pull homemade whole wheat pancakes from the freezer for A, who doesn’t like pigs in a blanket. Empty the dishwasher, clear the counters of a couple of things that got left out. Open all the blinds to let some light in, the sun isn’t shining on our house yet, but I can see the sun on the trees at the top of the hill behind us. It takes a while to shine down in this holler. Make my breakfast.
8:50 Sit down at the computer with my breakfast, whole wheat toast with peanut butter, and a cup of tea. Update this log, than have to rewrite it when the computer freaks out and locks up. grrrr
9:10 Ok, dsl is freaking out. So guess I’ll get up and go back to work. 1st thing is put my shoes and socks on! I miss them! I supervised kids morning chores. Took afghan away from Mel, and turn off the tv, so she’d get up from the couch. ok, instead of getting up, she decided to fold the basket of clothes. Since she has sit down jobs now that her knees are so bad, this works. Abby volunteered to sweep & mop the kitchen floor, since I recently took the job back from Melissa, I gladly accept the help. She gets the sweeping done, then leaves. lol At least I don’t have to sweep it!
I fold, and put away my clothes from the dryer, put the sheets from the washer to the dryer, and start a load of D’s clothes. Load the dw and start it. Remind Mel that she needs to finish cleaning the screen that is laying on the kitchen sink and put it away. She silk screened a couple of t shirts yesterday. She made them as part of our Homeschoolers for Bush study. They say “Kerry is scary…” on the front and she’s going to put “Vote for Bush” on the back.
10:00 I’m had a cup of tea while watching the first 20 minutes of Regis
and Kelly. Read to the kids out of the U.S. Constitution book we’re reading, and discussed that. Read a chapter from “The Story of Abraham Lincoln”, C & H copied one of George Washington’s Rules of Civilitity, A & Z praticed writing the alphabet.
11:00 I took the sheets out of the dryer, and put them in a pile on the bed, to be made later. Moved the load from the washer to the dryer. Finished a scrapbook page, by glueing everything on that I had already laid out. That took about 1 minute. broke up some block throwing which was wrinkling someones handwriting paper. Read another chapter about A. Lincoln, while A & Z built with wooden blocks, and C & H finished their handwriting.
11:30 Made my bed, had A & Z pick up the blocks, they all went outside for a break. Worked on doing the weeklies in my bedroom and bathroom. I’ll post a complete list of the weeklies later.
12:15 LUNCH BREAK!!! yeah!!!!
1:15 Ok, guess my lunch break was long enough! The little kids have gone next door to Grandmas & Grandpa’s to help them build a bridge. Melissa is working on silk screening her shirt. I finished the bedroom weeklies.
Clean mirrors
Clean sink tub & toilet
Declutter surfaces
Dust bedroom and bathroom
Remove sheets, wash, replace
Sweep and mop bathroom floor
Take out trash
Vacuum
Wash D’s clothes
Wipe down TV
Everything’s done, except for folding and putting away D’s clothes. I vacuumed the bathroom, instead of sweeping and mopping. I had a mess under my scrap desk. Instead of emptying the trash, I’ve been throwing all the scraps on the floor. 🙁 bad scrapper! lol And no, my room is not perfect but it’s better than it was!
2:15 I’m taking a couple of minutes on the computer, then I’m going to go scrap for a few minutes, while the kids are still next door.
3:00 The kids got home a few minutes ago. They played a boardgame, watched Zoom, then ate ice cream. I’ve check in on Mel’s schoolwork.
3:30 I had my snack, ice cream, too 🙂 started working in the kitchen. I made 10 pounds of hamburger into 5 meatloafs, my hands hurt now! Had Mel read me the info letter that we just got in the mail about her dr’s appt. It’s at Shriners Hospital
the only place that has a ped. rhuematologist. Her appt is on the 14th, one week from today.
4:30 rearranged the freezers to fit 5 meatloafs in gladware, took the stuff out of the freezer for supper, chicken stir fry and lo mein
4:45 taking a quick break before starting supper should really be getting the clothes in the dryer folded and working in the kitchen!
5:00 started supper, supervised the kids playing with the neighbor, emptied the dw, washed pans read the mail, read a couple of pages in the book I’m reading, talked with Mel
6:00 put the finishing touches on supper, which is late, but D’s working late, so that’s not a problem had the kids come in, sent the neighbor boy home ( no small feat!) Had them make sure their work was done.
6:30 kids are watching something on Disney while waiting for D to come home to eat. I’m updating this. folded & put away D’s clothes. YEAH the weeklies are officially done!
6:45 ate supper….late…..without D…..
7:05 D’s home….off to get him his supper. bagged up kitchen trash AGAIN, put in new bag, loaded dw, washed pans, etc, wiped everything down Granny came over, so talked with her for a few, talked with D, and kids,
7:50 updated this 🙂 , checked email etc. checked the goat forum to see what was going on there, D is playing cars with the little kids, girls included, Mel is……somewhere. I’m going to go scrap for a few.
8:10 I looked at my scrap stuff, but was too tired to do anything. 🙁 The kids had their snack, brownies from the freezer, cause Mama was too tired to cut the fruit. 🙁 tucked in the kids, prayed with them, spent some time talking w/ Calen about his dreams. Talked with D.
9:00 I watched the Apprentice while crocheting. I was working slowly, though, so didn’t get very much done.
10:00 watched ER, croceted for a few more minutes, cleared the junk off my bed that had accumulated, grrrrr,
11:00 lights out, and fell asleep a couple of minutes after my head hit the pillow.
A productive day, even though I didn’t get everything done that I wanted to. But since God made it a requirement that I sleep, I try not to worry about the stuff that didn’t get done. At least for the 8 hours that I’m sleeping!
