What a successful start...

to this day. I help Duck type up some homework, his words my fingers. I ran an errand for A. I've done 3 loads of laundry, three loads of handwashing dishes, hung clothes out, took clothes to be folded upstairs,cleaned out the cat box and started working on the dining room. I had to sit down for breakfast (late one that is) and I'm starting to have some chest pains. Well I'll get back to work, I think I'll try to find an asprin.

Goals for tomorrow...

Here they are.

We are going to get up early say 7 or 8 at the latest. They boys can sleep in until 8or 8:30. Get breakfast ready, and then run up to work, I offered to run an errand for A, she needs something taken care of. Something simple that I can do for her, so I said I'd take care of it! She has been an excellent listener lately.

I will come back and get a lesson done with the boys. Station one will be a workbook lesson.

I plan to then get things done around the house. So here's the list.

1. Lesson for boys
2. I need to clean the livingroom
3. Kitchen counters and stove
4. Work on tomatoes for canning, I found that I don't have to can them for 90 min...thank goodness.
5. Dishes
6. Laundry, laundry and more laundry!
7. Laundry room
8. Bathroom
9. Dining Room
10. Our bedroom
11. Boys bedroom
12. Fold and put away all clothes.
13. DONE

I also have to go out at some point and pick the rest of the red tomatoes off the vines, I would love to can those too!

I will also work on my lessons tomorrow. I was switched to mids at work, I'm not thrilled, I like the mornings. This will just have to work for now. We'll see what Oct holds and then Jan. If work does come through with enough money to let us survive, I will stay until Duck is either closer to finding a suitable job or through school. I'm not sure, he is extending his time and they are offering him a new grant in Jan, although it is possible that he won't qualify.

Okay I'm going to get started on stuff tonight. I want to be in bed in a few hours and I need to get things going so I have a little less to do tomorrow.

AHHHHHHHH.....

Okay, so today at work was rough. I was put into a position that forced me to give a couple of orders that I would have rather not had to give, but did. Since the changes didn't hurt anyone and was suppose to help things go more smoothly, I was hoping for the best. Unfortunately that didn't work out. I ended up having to swap people around because the load was too much for some. I'm working on the news letter, I'm sure that some will just be thrilled! Policies need to be followed for the one millionth time, so these are some of the things we are going to start addressing. I also have some fun ideas to do with it. Then after work, I went out to the farm, and the goats had knocked over the milk, I'm SOOOO FUSTRATED. While there is a machine that does most of the work, I usually made sure that I got any extra by hand milking, this way there might be a little bit extra milk and relief for the goats. So this is fustrating. Then one of the billy goats head butted Smiley and nearly knocked him over. Smiley was just walking past them and they he turned, I'm sure that he thought Smiley was going to eat his hay, but HEY, that's my kid (and I don't mean a goat kid!) Duck threatened to make him dinner a bit sooner if he tried to hurt the baby again. We found a chicken multilated, then the other chickens were eating it. Gross! Both rabbits needed water, the female let me pet her for quite a while. Flora looked really really bad tonight, her eyes were weaping so bad that it was dripping off of her face. They were gooey and gross. I felt so sorry for her. She doesn't look well at all.

On a better note today, we pulled on of the tomato plants today, it wasn't steaked up and the tomatoes were rotten. We threw it into the compost pile. I also collected all the red cherry and regular tomatoes. Oh my goodness, I filled, over flowing, three 2.5 gallon buckets. Now I need to wash and blanch them so I can peel and can them. I also got some more peppers, one green, one purple and one yellow. I sprayed the pumpkins, they have potato bugs all over them. On final count after Sunshine pulled a green one we have 15 orange nearly ready pumpkins. I think I'll pull one Mon to see if it is ready. The earlier you pull them the less seeds you have. I can can them and use them for pumpkin fluff for my WW receipe. I hope to get at least 20 or 30 more gallons of tomatoes, we'll see what happens. I do have a bunch that are red, but not quite ready to pick. I also planted pole snap beans and Mon I will plant Spinach and romain since the weather is nice it should grow well. I also pulled my potatoes, I think I only got about 10 or so, some big some little. I also only got one onion. Lessons for next year. Well I need to get my Watchtower Study done, the tomatoes done, dishes done and some laundry ran. Duck is working hard in the garage so I will have a bit of time with the munchkins alone. I'm really excited I'm off on Monday, it feels like it has been a month since I've had a day off.

On a funny note, since I scare easily, I screamed bloody murder at my neighbor today. I had my back turned towards the kids so that I could see what they were doing and she came up from behind and spoke ever so softly, I'm sure that I made a few neighbors over their curtains to see what the crazy lady was screaming about. I apologized of course, and we began to talk for a bit. It was good to see her. Our husbands talk often, but he husband had surgery about 2 months ago and we haven't seen him at all. I'm going to try to make a bunch of bread on Monday since I have lots who want some. I'm even going to try a batch with Splenda instead of Sugar.

Recently we bought 2 BIG containers of Applesauce at a local wholesaler. I have plans for the metal containers. I always heard that you could keep one of those with holes poked in it, candles and a plate to put it on in your car. That way if you ever get stuck without heat you can heat your car. So why can't we use the same idea to heat a certain room? I'm going to look for a fire shield to put it on of course.

Well I need to scoot, I have things to do!

Me.

What a mess...

Today was just a mess from the time I work up. Work was different, the new restaurant opened for 1.5 hours this afternoon and then was closed for 1.5. It was crazy. There were so many customers coming over cussing at the new place. Then we went out to take care of the animals. I was up to my ankles in mud and dung. The rabbit's door was open again and this time his bottle was outside. I have filled it up everyday, this is the second time it was open when I got there. I'm 100% certain that I locked it, I make sure everytime. When we got there someone had been there, the kids were in the milking stall, the door was half off, the bottom hinge was all the way off. Then I milked, it was great, I even finished off by hand milking to hopefully increase any supply that may have been lost. Frenchy gave me tons of milk, it too FOREVER. Then after I was done with everything including checking on Flora, giving her water, trying to get her out to milk her, moving a syringe that the kids nearly grabbed, moved the other dirty ones from away from Flora's stall, she had already gotten ahold of the bag, I got all I could find out of her stall. After all that, I spilled the milk, I was SOOOO MAD. Then I spent a while looking for what I could use to clean it up. I tried to use some of the feed bags, I couldn't find anything...giving up I left it there. I will try to take my mop tomorrow. I'm sure that I'll hear about this one too. What else am I suppose to do? Yesterday when I was out there the goats had knocked over the fence in one spot, I had to get Frenchy out of the field, then another one jumped over, I had to get them back too. I pick up the post and propped it up as good as I could and tried to fix the fence, I'm just not a fence builder. It looked as if they didn't try it again. I still haven't found any eggs besides the two the other day. So all in all I did my what I could today and still lost all the milk.

I need to go, I have to be up at the crack of dawn.

Night,
Me.

Riley

Yesterday we were at Riley all day. Two apts took FOREVER. The nuerologists office never called us for give instructions so Sunshine wasn't sleep deprived as he should have been. All in all he once again proved how smart he actually is. He was briefly watching House of Mouse which he had never seen before as we don't have cable or satelite. While watch it he figured out how they were doing things, so he said, "Hey Mom, watch this!" He proceeded to pretend to pull letters out of his shirt, counting the, "One, two, three, four, five" the he said look it's ..... and he spelled his name. (For safety purposes, I won't spell it out) He didn't care for being put out for the MRI, took too long to wake up from the anesthesia and bounced back faster then expected.

So after we got done, we went to take care of the goats and animals. I tell you, I wonder if I get hazard pay or worker's comp. Last night I got horned in the arm and today I got head butted, head to head. Star isn't giving me much milk, and Fenchy while giving me more, doesn't seem to be producing much either. Although I did finish by hand milking her. By the way, K if you read this, Flora looks like she has milk, what do you want me to do? I'm going to try to call you later tonight, incase I forget.

cool short video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3U9jQBcjpI&feature=channel_page

Possibly some good came out of this day...

I harvested a lot today. The boys helped me it was really cute. Sunshine felt like it was one of the greatest things he had done. Smiley couldn't help but eat a few along the way. Overall we nearly filled an 30 quart tote full of tomatoes, squash, red peppers, yellow peppers and green peppers. I still need to harvest the potatoes, onions, pumpkins (in time) and more and more and more tomatoes. I will be pulling one tomato plant after I pick all the green ones, unless I can brace it. I'm losing all my red ones to rot. I want to design a new tomato cake, but it will either require welding or soldering. I will use these for tomatoes, green beans and peppers. I need to put in a raised bed for the onions next year. I will harvest them when I get back. Potatoes I will put into a bag. I was able to pull all the corn and weeds from that area, I will plant green beans in the wholes of the corn, now I just have to build the poles.

I have a lot of work to do for a fall crop, however as cold as it was today, I'm not sure they will make it that long as it was pretty chilly.

Katy

What the heck?

Okay, now I'm really starting to get confused. Today was rough at work. It wasn't a fun day, it was hard and stressful, it was a day and now it is over. That being said, now I come home to surf the net for a bit and find that a conversation I had today has in my opinion been blown out of porportion. K~ What is going on? Now I'm supposidly your friend? I simply called you to ask if you had her number. If she didn't have a phone, I wouldn't have called you so obviously she has a phone. You talk to people there that I don't, even after hours. I thought that perhaps you might have her number as in maybe she contacted you or gave it to you one day for work related purposes. It isn't like I think you two hang out or have cocktails, I know that isn't you. I know her husband died, we wanted to make sure she has what she needs right now. Someone couldn't find her number and wanted to make sure she is okay. Her husband was young, for this to happen at any age is horrible to imagine, but especially at such a young age. And for the recond, I called you when no one else was looking, if anyone knew I was on the phone they wouldn't have known it was you, nor did anyone pickup the phone as I would've heard it, why do you think that I would set you up like that? As far as my comment about proving a point, you are the one that said that you weren't going to come back until after your conference. I don't know what all happened that day in the office, I was trying to take orders and trying to, as much as possible, prevent customers from hearing the yelling. I have been working hard to help get to the bottom of this, trying to tell everyone that this is outside of your character, that in all the time I have known you, you have never done anything like this. I thought that your point was that you were coming back after conference, was that you were standing firm on your statments of what you said, and that you aren't going to back down and let anyone treat you like crap. I know that this is out of the circumstances of normal day to day we are short, we need someone to fill in. Someone had to replace you on the schedule for last night and tonight due to the situtation and circumstances, which had already been taken care of before I even knew which way was up after all the drama. I told you going into working there, that it would be very possible that you wouldn't like it. We are different, bullies pick on people who are different. If you felt cut off in the conversation we had today, it was simply because someone probably walked in, not that I cared if they knew we were talking, cutting you off was not the intentions. The only reason anyone knew that I talked to you was because they saw me talking to you and then overheard the tail end of our conversation, which I then had to explain. You can remain less than impressed if you feel you must, I've tried to stick up for you, and was waiting to be able to call you tonight or talk to you on Monday about the progress I've made, but I feel that point may be mute. Bottom line, I apologize I inconvenienced you, it was my mistake. I guess the question is now, do you feel so little impressed of me that you feel you need to find someone else to take care of your animals while you are away? I'm hoping that your remarks are simply that you misunderstood what I was trying to get at today and that you are having a rough week with everything going on at work, the stress of your construction at home and getting ready for your conference. I guess all in all, this is getting out of control.

At the beginning to the end of this day, I have my arms held up saying, "What the heck?" The day was so rough, and so busy at work. I tried to do something to help someone and now I'm being slammed for it. It seems that I can't do anything right for anyone anymore, what is going on? Time to re-evaluate things in my life. This SUCKS, I'm going to go out in my garden and see if I can pull up some things that have died, perhaps I can plant some more food for my family I'm sure they will appreciate any effort that I put into helping and loving them. Perhaps the day isn't a total loss, perhaps I can please someone afterall...we'll see.

Sadly,
K

A long bad day with a positive ending...

Today stated off rough, I was 45 min late to work, DARN IT. I dropped an entire stack about 12 or so plastic square pans from above my head on my hand and the proceeded to hit me in the face as I tried to catch them and then the floor. I found that I could work later since I was late and had 10 hours to play with. So I did, I worked until 2 o'clock. Some strange things were going around today. Enough said about that. On a lighter note, I will say that I do not eat there unless one of my trusted managers is there as I'm so sick an tired of rec'ing the wrong food, it is cold, old or not right. On the other had, we don't eat fast food after 4 in town unless it is Subway or the local Pizza Place. I know either way it will be hot or I'm watching it be made. Unfortunately standards are different, which is in most cases understandable since you have more teenagers working who are only there because mom and dad said they had to be, they don't put the care into it that the day shift does since we need the money. All in all, no shift is perfect everyone has room for improvement otherwise we'd all be Jesus. Since none of us are perfect we must continue to strive to make things better in ways that we can.

So after work today we went to a local hardware store. During check out we ran into a lady we used to know, she had triplets. We were done and getting ready to get out of the lane when Sunshine took of running. Duck thought that he just ran around the corner, he took off after him and Smiley took off after Duck. Then he said he wasn't there. I thought surely he's right there, he's never done that before. Then he wasn't there, I ran to the play area thinking that he was there. He wasn't, I even check he womens restroom on my way out there. I asked the cashier to make sure a little boy didn't leave if she saw him and gave her a description. I ran back into the store and saw Duck runing towards me shaking his head, by the way he had Smiley. I broke down, I was passed by an associate and I asked her for help. She said that the only thing they could do was page him. I told her that he was autistic an he would have no idea what to do after he heard his name. Then I heard Duck talking to him loudly. Duck had found him in the mens room, he had an emergency and had to potty. He was/is used to just going, he did what he knew, he went. I was crying so hard I could hardly breath and my chest was nearly killing me. When I saw him I collasped in an isle, Sunshine came over to me and asked me if I was okay. He started crying and was trying to make sure that I was okay. I finally was able to pull myself together to calm him down and told him that he was a good boy for going to potty. When we aren't at home, he needed mommy or daddy to help so we wouldn't worry about him and that he scared mommy and made her sad by running off. I was ture terror and pure fear, I can't ever imagine having to go through that again.
It has been a long and exhausting day. I'm blessed to have what I have and blessed that Sunshine is safe and sound. On another note, we bout a Kindegarden plan tonight for the boys, we will critique it tomorrow, until then we have projects and fall cleaning to get done.
Night,
Me.

The exhaustion continues.

I've been so tired lately, it is really becoming concerning. I need to see what is up. It is almost like I'm prego, but I'm not. I have no energy and could fall asleep anytime I sit down. The solution...don't sit down. I cut up 4 squash earlier, and pulled two more off the vines. I also found another that I set aside the other day and sent it to the L's. I pulled half a bag of cherry tomatoes today and 3 large red tomatoes. This year is certainly a learing experience. What to do...what not to do.

~Create successful planting earlier.
~Plant more corn by planting the same row width, but closer together and more rows and stagger them.
~Build or buy better tomatoe cages. The cheap wire ones SUCK and are horrible for the tomatoes, I've lost 2 plants and snap braches trying to pick tomatoes.
~Plant Tomatoe plants in a row, not so close together. They are killing one another.
~3 zuch plants and 3 squash plants
~ONLY ONE PUMPKIN PLANT PERIOD and not in the garden, put in another area.
~Potato bags....6 of them (one to pops)
~3 cucumber plants, so I can pickle
~TONS OF bean plants, skip the peas..it isn't worth it.
~Skip the carrots it isn't worth it.
~Broccoli and cauliflower
~more spinach, more to eat fresh and more to can.

So far..that's it, that's what I've learned. I'm waiting to see how my kidney beans turn out. I will plan on planting a LOT of them if they come out good, along with pinto, lima, great northern and navy.

I will also start fishing in early spring to put down fish in the hole for my plants.

Well I need to go get the kitchen worked on and hopefully finished, I'm sure that I won't finish completely finish it as I'm detailing every inch that I can.

Toodles...Katy

Day off...

I was hoping that today would have been a fun filled day of cleaning with the family. Duck went to his bible study today and was asked if he could help with Br. L's daughter's car. I am happy that he is trying to help and wiling and of course able. I would have liked to have cleaned the house, but I don't have the energy or umph. Last night we covered how Jah wants cleanness. So I keep saying that to myself and it gets me going again here and there. My most major accomplishment today has been the fridge. It was been wiped out every inch. I need to make a new list of goals for the next couple of weeks. This should help us get on the right track.

1. Sign Sunshine up under the homeschool section on our state's website
2. Study well for my bible study on Monday and for the WT study on Sunday.
3. Finish my workbook for work.
4. Finish the upstairs and possibly start to paint
5. Put up trim
6. Water system.
7. Plant new plants and weed out old in garden
8. Walk one mile everyday with the workout video.
9. Start the new sleeping/school schedule
10. Keep the kitchen sink shining.
11. Move chest of drawers to landry room
12. CLEAN laundry room
13. Detail every inch of bathroom

Today I was thinking about my baptizism. I'm sure that there is a reason that it poped into my head. I remember seeing T when I was walking into the pool. I hadn't gotten the chance to catch her before the session started to tell her. While I was trying to surprise her, I was hoping that it would be that morning. Instead she surprised me. I never thought I'd see her on the other side of the stage looking at me. She was amazing. As bad as they day had been, she made my stand more clear and a much easier decision. Although I already knew where I belonged and what I was doing. Today the same woman who was smiling at me that day in the beautiful green dress she was wearing was standing in the same place smiling at me again in my head. What a wonderful reminder that there is love in this messed up world, that people really can and do care about others.
I think I'm going to call her and say...hey!

Toodles.

Yet the drama continues to unfold.

Today started off great, with the except that the maintenance man was FURIOUS that night shift broke 3 things last night. His philosophy is...if you don't know how to fix it, DON'T TOUCH IT. I tend to agree, but when you need something to work now, what do you do? Humm...the S walked in and it was grumpy city. All in all I'm glad to have tomorrow off, I'd like to go out into FSM in the morning then Smiley and I are going to K's to see the new animals and wrap soaps. I got more cleaning done in the kitchen, just can't see to get on top of it. This also means that the laundry room is lacking and so is the upstairs and laundry. Wait, that just about covers it all. I need to know how to pull out of this funk and get myself in a routine. We are getting the boys schedule set up and Duck is just going to have to follow it. I don't care if he goes to bed at 2 am, he needs to be up by 8 and get the boys up. He can't get Sunshine on a schedule and teach him if he isn't willing to do it. And if he isn't, he will need to find a job and I will have to start staying home. Right now the boys are finishing up their bubble bath. Today I ran across a new really cool website....howtogetridofthings.com It's cool! Well I need to get going, I have a few minutes to get things done and I need to get the couch setup for M, he is staying with us for the next two days. Since there is no air upstairs, I'm having him couch it. On top of that, the beds are in the bunks but I haven't put the sheets on them because Duck had to put in the bunkyboards.

Gotta take care of them munchkins

toodles.

Drama, drama, drama...

So today I found out that I said something that I didn't say...surprise, surprise, surprise! I hear this all the time at work, that placeis worse than high school. Quite frankly, I couldn't think that someplace could be that bad. All in all, I did said something to one of the three parties involved and it is going around that I went to the boss. Frankly, I don't believe the rumor going around, which is why I placed a heads up. If it is true, I frankly don't want to know, I don't care. I just don't want to see a mother of 4 who is already struggling, lose her job for something that the ex-girlfriend of one of the parties is telling anyone who wil listen. Heck, I found out while I was shopping at the local grocery store, she said it loud enough for most of the store to hear. I kept trying to walk away, telling her that it wasn't my business, guess I really wanted the stupid sandwich spread. Hindsight...it wasn't worth it, I could have gotten it the next day.

I picked up C's cat Mandy today. She is hiding in the closet behind the suitcases, she'll come out when she gets hungry or needs to potty. I'm going to ask Duck to build her a scratch post that she can climb in. I'll need to find some scrap carpeting somewhere. I'm sure he will do it.

We'll I'm going to go do the dishes, I have to be up in 4.5 hours to go to work. Yipee.

Been a few days....

Well Dad came up yesterday. It was great, he helped fix the window. They dug it out, removed the window and then replaced it with block. One of the projects completed, just need dirt now. Right now we are watching the TV Series LOST. Oh my, it's so addictive. One another note, we got these pesky fruit files that just won't leave. I took the potatoes out, I hope that is what it was. All in all they are testing my last nerve.
I worked today, nothing great, but I did have fun with B. She cracks me up and time usually seems to go faster when she is there, even though I was in back booth, it was fun. Tue was have something cooked up for S when she gets there. This is going to be great!
Not much going on, Dad took a list of stuff home that needs to be done up here.

me.

Unwelcomed guests...or is it pests?

So tonight while we were watching a bit tv, instead of cleaning, Sunshine and Smiley both ran and I mean RAN downstairs. That's when Sunshine informed us that there was a bird upstairs in their room, that Master Bruce and Batman was upstairs. Surely not, I thought. Well that's what I get for thinking. Yes my 5 yr old Batman fan had let in a bat. I don't know how it got in other than Sunshine said it come in through the window, when asked if he let it in, he said, "I don't know MOM!" He was pretend playing on the phone later where he was talking about the bat coming through the window. I'm sure that most of that had to do with the fact that I asked him, but come on, how else could it get in? So then, the wise idea on my part is to find the cat, boy oh boy, he is never around when there is a mouse in the house, let alone a bat. And yes, he has killed bats before, last year he caught a squirrel. He's fast. So I decided to be brave, and I opened the door, that's when the bugger flew out of the toy closet and around in circles. Duck thinking he was going to be the macho dad, decided it was time for the man to go in. He opened the door and I was telling him not to get bit and showed him where the broom was in the room. Of course the ONLY time we really need the broom, it is in the room that we need to enter in swinging with it. Just then out of the corner of my eye I saw it, it was hanging on the top of the door. I screamed like it was murder it even made me cry, slammed the door and escorted the children down the stairs quickly. Now Duck is upstairs trying to get rid of the darn thing. Wish it wasn't so late K, I didn't know if you had any bat stew receipes. So in the past two days, Duck has fixed the dryer, the toilet again, and taken care of an unwelcomed pest. What a sport, he is such a wonderful husband and father.

On another note, I have been called into work at 4 instead of 7 and you see that it's 11 our time. So I must go to bed.

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Goals accomplished today and tomorrow's list

I got some of the dressers moved, the old bed taken down, and got most of our bedroom cleaned.

1. Finish cleaning upstairs, hopefully rent rug doctor.
2. Clean hallway, clean off book shelf
3. Microwave stand
4. Top and inside of fridge
5. finish cleaning out cabinets
6. Laundry, laundry, laundry, and more laundry
7. scrub bathroom down good
8. weedeat and mow grass

That is the list, plain and simple it has to get done. I'm sure that we can accomplish these goals.

if you happen to have some extra time...

Wanna save some money?

grow your own food! Cut/Copy/Paste the link below, it's amazing all the info that is there, including mowing your grass with goats...yes K I thought about you. Can I borrow a goat or two next year????

http://green.yahoo.com/living-green/gardening.html

A sad inside day...

Today we were getting ready for Dad's visit at the end of the week. I love the fact that he visits, but this requires a lot of extra cleaning as it would with anyone visiting. This shouldn't be how it is, but it is. I've done a lot of needed to do things like clean out the freezer completely! I scrubbed the inside with spic and span and the outside of the fridge. Now I have to do the fridge part and the top. I also cleared off the top of the cabinets getting rid of things that are either considered, bad or useless. I will yard sale what I can so that we can get closer to having a new wood burning stove. We did stop today in the other town and get a quote for an outside wood burning stove...ouch! Nearly 8K dollars. YIKES~! So I'm trying to think of ways to cut this cost down. All in all the tubing alone will cost well over 200. The sad thing is that is might be possible to get financing, but I really don't want to. I don't want to add another payment to the household at 15% it would be close to 200 a month. The thing to happen would be for the business to pick up a bit and then we could afford to buy it outright! The boys wanted to go outside all day, but they destroyed the house so bad it too me forever to get everything cleaned up....and I'm still not done. And on top of all of this....my dryer is broken and it is suppose to storm really crazy tomorrow. I also am going to start going through all the cabinets again, I need to reorganize and prioritize things. We are looking for see through glass containers with lids so that we can solar cook.
We are also looking at moving all the beds to one room, this way during the winter we only have to heat one room at night instead of two. We will still put a solar heater in the other room to see how they do upstairs. We are also going to look into solar water heating as well.
In light of the little girls who drowened (cnn.com story) we are trying to figure out what we are going to do about a pool, if it is even a good idea this year. With less than a month left and the temps not reaching 90, it seems like it would be too cold. I'm not sure quite what we are going to do, although at the rate Sunshine is going, he may not be allowed to get a swimming pool.
On another note, the zuch plants are dead and the squash plants are right behind them along with the lettuce plants (which I got nothing off of). I will miracle grow these areas and put in some compost in there and plant the beans. I will plant spinach where the lettuce is and I will plant the romaine lettuce in the middle, oh and the broccoli, I'll find it a home. Next year I will be buying the potatoe bags for the potatoes. I haven't harvested any yet, they still are green but starting to turn brown. I will more than likely harvest the rest of the corn on Friday. I may be able to plant the beans there and then go from there.
I'm brain dead at this point and my shoulder is killing me. More tomorrow hopefully!
Katy

So tired...

I didn't sleep well last night, I've been dozing most of the day after work. It was a great day, but I need more practice opening. Only one or two more times and I'll have it. I found out that a lady at work is really struggling with stress right now. I wish that I could find a way to help her. I think tomorrow if I have a rose in bloom I may take it to her. I have also decided to bust rump and learn as much as I can. Duck is also going to go and apply at a local manufacturing plant. I do hope that he gets the job. He will then have to attend part time college and I will have to stay home to school Sunshine and Smiley and clean house. I would love to beable to follow this schedule...

Monday up at 6:30, boys up at 7
breakfast at between 7:15 and 7:45, clean up dishes by 8
Dress for field service by 8:30 and out in service at 9.
Home at noon, lunch at 12:30, finished by 1.
Nap, rest, silent reading if Smiley is napping, quite play. Cleaning house for me and free time.
Up by 2:30 One of three stations by 3:15 (page work, sensory table/experiement, other )
Station 2 by 4 and station 3 by 4:45
Start dinner at 5, free play
Dinner at 6 finsihed by 6:45 dishes done and kitchen cleaned back up by 7:15, start baths at 8.
Bedtime story at 9, short movie and asleep by 10 at the latest.

Tuesday up at 6:30, boys up at 7
breakfast at between 7:15 and 7:45, clean up dishes by 8
Dress for field service by 8:30 and out in service at 9.
Home at noon, lunch at 12:30, finished by 1.
Nap, rest, silent reading if Smiley is napping, quite play. Cleaning house for me and free time.
Up by 2:30 One of three stations by 3:15 (page work, sensory table/experiement,other music or art once a week)
Station 2 by 4 and station 3 by 4:45
Start dinner at 5, free play
Dinner at 6 finsihed by 6:45 dishes done and kitchen cleaned back up by 7:15, start baths at 8.
Bedtime story at 9, short movie and asleep by 10 at the latest.

Wednesday up at 6:30, boys up at 7
breakfast at between 7:15 and 7:45, clean up dishes by 8
Dress for field service by 8:30 and out in service at 9.
Home at noon, lunch at 12:30, finished by 1.
Nap, rest, silent reading if Smiley is napping, quite play. Cleaning house for me and free time.
Up by 2:30 One of three stations by 3:15 (page work, sensory table/experiement, other )
Station 2 by 4 and station 3 by 4:45
Start dinner at 5, free play
Dinner at 6 finsihed by 6:45 dishes done and kitchen cleaned back up by 7:15, start baths at 8.
Bedtime story at 9, short movie and asleep by 10 at the latest.

Thursday up at 6:30, boys up at 7breakfast at between 7:15 and 7:45, clean up dishes by 8 Children's bible study from 9-10, free time till noon
lunch at 12:30, finished by 1.Nap, rest, silent reading if Smiley is napping, quite play. Cleaning house for me and free time.Up by 2:30 One of three stations by 3:15 (page work, sensory table/experiement,other music or art once a week)Station 2 by 4 and station 3 by 4:45Start dinner at 5, free playDinner at 5:30 finsihed by 6:15, dress for meeting by 6:45 and head out the door. dishes done and kitchen cleaned back up by 7:15, start baths at 8.Bedtime story at 9, short movie and asleep by 10 at the latest.

Friday up at 6:30, boys up at 7
breakfast at between 7:15 and 7:45, clean up dishes by 8
Dress for field service by 8:30 and out in service at 9.
Home at noon, lunch at 12:30, finished by 1.
Nap, rest, silent reading if Smiley is napping, quite play. Cleaning house for me and free time.
Up by 2:30 One of three stations by 3:15 (page work, sensory table/experiement, other )
Station 2 by 4 and station 3 by 4:45
Start dinner at 5, free play
Dinner at 6 finsihed by 6:45 dishes done and kitchen cleaned back up by 7:15, start baths at 8.
Bedtime story at 9, short movie and asleep by 10 at the latest.

Saturday I will get up early to go into service, everyother week. This will give Duck father/sontime with the boys, home by noon, same routine. Sunday being meeting day and family time.

This should give me 50hours a month which would be perfect to aux pioneer.
Okay it' getting late and I'm exhausted.
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