Oh my!

So it has been a long day for being so short! Sunshine cried out in his sleep I bet every half hour or so. I finally woke him up and asked him if he was okay, he said, I fine mommy and went back to sleep only to keep it up. He had a breathing treatment before bed and did fine for most of today, he needs to take another one.

Today it was 61 deg in the main part of the house...burrrrrr. I turned on both space heaters and the dryer this morning, it quickly got up to 70 and I shut the all off. We are going to get K1 tomorrow incase we need it later this week. We also drained the water heater to see if it had crud in it. I'm fustrated that we didn't use the water instead of letting it run down the drain, but with how our hook up is, we had no pressure to make it go upstairs...therefore no choice. While it was slowly draining we went into the hardware store to pick up the shower surrond we saw on sale. While it wasn't what we wanted, it was the right price and only needs to last 2 years. We are going to put an actual shower in when Smiley gets older. I really want the one with the seat, but we can always buy a seat if we need to. I enjoy sitting while trying to shave my legs...when I actually get the privacy and time to shave. While there we did pick up a watt meter, plumbing for the sink that is leaking, a chop saw for the energy project wiring for the electric stove. We were looking at a convection oven, but it just didn't make sense, the oven will be up this week. I couldn't believe how much wire was, it is stupid. We also bought a motion sensor switch for the boys room, so tomorrow we will be rearranging again. I think that when Duck goes to school I will work on the boys room.

We are pretty sure that there is no money unemployment for Duck therefore we will be living off my wages alone. Time to get back up to 40. We have worked out some things to help us including the food aspect of growing our own, possibly buying a pig when we save or half a cow. For those who are sitting there with a puzzled, bewildered look on their face, we would buy them from the butcher already taken care of. We just need another deep freezer and have no budget for it. Something else that we will have to save for.

Today's reading is 8334-8280 = 2250! Wow that's still really high, but it can't be worse than having the gas heater on. We didn't get the solar heaters done this season, I'm hope to add those to our list for this summer...the list is getting so long. Duck will more than likely not be able to be finished with school this winter, more than likely next spring.

Well I've gotta go back to work....
toodles

Service and cleaning...

Today we went out into service, we had a great time. I was very very very pleased to have the opportunity to speak with one of the other sisters. I found out that she batch cooks for herself once every 6-9 months and will be doing it again really soon. WOW I really love the idea of batch cooking and I feel that canning soups and such falls under those ideas. I volunteered to help her if she needed any...I can't wait. I will also give some seeds to her from my seed share for her neighbor who gives her veggies regularly. I also heard that another sister would be great to get into contact with about a possible garden for her...I have some seeds set aside for her as well. It is amazing how God really does bless us.

Duck had school today, it seemed to go well. I will help him type up any notes he needs to get done, this way he won't have to spend hours upon hours of typing, he can dictate and I can type. I have several loads of clothes to fold so I really want to get to it before it's too late. I want to get them all put away tomorrow so I can purge what needs to be purged and go on to possibly painting.

Toodles.

AHHHH.....

Okay...so I've been working with Duck to try to get his class schedules set up where he can be done in the fall/winter. I don't see it happening. Today he will get his revised circulum and he is going to be 2 classes off. The only way to him through would be for him to take the max amount of classes between now and then...it isn't possible. He's bauking at 15 hrs...there is no way I can get him to do 18. Now to the hard part. I need to see if I can get my schedule set on a fixed schedule until the end of this term and the I think that I will be able to stick with the same schedule.

Smiley lost all of his dinner again last night, I'm wondering if he is getting a cold or something and getting a mucus backup, it seems to happen more when he coughs or gags. I know that sounds obvious, but now he has more symptons of having a gi bug. NO FUN.

Sunshine hasn't been eating as much lately and he has been asking for his breathing treatments so we are doing what we can go make sure that he is staying healthy...he is the on that I worry most about healthwise.

I'm feeling a lot better, the medicine seemed to do the trick..I still have a spell now and again but nothing major. I can't believe how hard it was to do anything besides focusing on walking. Unless you've ever had that you probably wouldn't even know what I was talking about. I hope that you never do.

Well I want to finish rearranging the upstairs and fold the laundry and get it put away. I all need to FC the toddler bed.

TTFN.
Katy

Today's Harvest and another final

Today I harvested 24 ears of corn. Some better than others, but 24 ears, well 25 if you include the one that I tossed since it was covered in ants and beetles. The zucchini plants are gone! They are looking so sad, there is two zuchs left, so I'll let them go until I can't let them go anymore. I want to try a bumper crop. I thought I'd get more, but I think I did give a lot away. I wasted a huge part of the garden this year, which I don't plant to do next year. I also harvested the carrots, they were a huge failure. Again another learning lesson.

Duck is taking his 3rd final. We'll see how he does!

So all in all, work was so depressing today that I nearly cried, not sure what that was about. I'm depressed because I want to learn more, yet no one will teach me, but then again I don't want to learn more. I think that I'm going to ask B or L for help, I need to be more informed and I need to do more. I think part of my depress is not necessarily a punishment, but maybe a reminder how good I feel when I attend the meetings regularily. I also haven't had a very active share in the Field Service this month, infact I only got 4 hours. I plan on going out Mon and hopefully Tue.

Okay, gotta run!
Me.