Ending an unusual day

Well, I had a better ending than beginning of my day. I know that I need to exercise to see any weight loss (and I need to lose weight!) So, in my working toward a fall school schedule I have planned time in that schedule for exercise once school begins next week. But, there is no time like the present. Tonight was beautiful and sunny so the blessings were outside playing then when I came out to sit and practice knitting they all jumped on their bikes as they can ride farther when I am outside. (By the way Angela, I bought shorter, bamboo needles and I sat tonight until I finally think I got it!!!!) So, once I got it, I thought what would be better exercise than riding my bicycle with them. We all got going and rode and rode. I had the dog running beside me to wear her out so I can get a good evening of more knitting practice instead of having to let her out every 20 minutes. She will crash when the house gets quiet.

 

I am going to use this blog to work on my exercise goal. I need accountability, so today I rode bikes with the kids for about 30-45 minutes.

Also, my Sunday School teacher gave us a scripture passage (Proverbs 2:1-11)to memorize this week, so I will also be working on that!

May the Lord find us faithful.

what a morning

I had a morning like no other. First, as I was loading the dishwasher blessing #3 who is 4 and a girl was spinning in the kitchen while I had my back to her and fell and hit her head on the dishwasher open door! No blood just a raised long place, whew! no trip to the dr. just ice and watch her. Then not 15 minutes later blessing # 1(boy) came out of his room and hit his head on the little metal plate in the door trim. This time blood, but  not too deep but I do not have any of those butterfly bandages!!! We were trying to get out the door any way so we fixed him up and went straight to Wal-Mart and got the butterfly thingies and he is all fixed up. Blessing # 2 was quite happy that she did not have any falls or cuts! (So was I)

So, we spent the whole day shoe and clothes shopping then on to grocery shopping. The clothes are horrible for girls so I think the sewing machine will have to come out often. There are almost no dresses out there.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Comforter

I have a mental list of things I would like to have finished before we begin school. One big thing was to prepare the comforter for my bed. I really liked this comforter the first time I saw it and it finally went on clearance with an extra 50% off and I bought it. Then our dog came and this spring she ripped a 12" rip in the top of the comforter. I almost threw it away and counted it a loss, but my Mom gave me a repair idea. Today I repaired the comforter and it will be back on my bed after a washing!!! Not the same but the pillows should cover the added 14" strip of fabric at the top and it almost looks as though it should be there.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Accomplished week

Besides being out of commission most of Wednesday, I accomplished my goals for the week. The curriculum is on the shelf and the clutter has been culled. The house has been cleaned and I have enjoyed the morning. I have sorted through my mounds of papers I have printed  from the internet research. So, when that is all put back together I will be finished. I am having a nice lunch with two of my blessings, one is with Dad. We played a couple of games of Hi-Ho Cherry-O before lunch.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Waking up feeling better

I felt miserable yesterday evening but my herbal remedy must have been effective. I am going to keep on taking it today to assure I do not regress. I felt a miserable cold coming on and I had to lay down all evening. But, thankfully today I feel better and can resume my activities.

May the Lord find us faithful.

 

Eight again

I got another 8 hours actually 8 1/2 hours. This may not seem like an accomplishment to many but when my husband travels I tend to stay up very late and sleep until the blessings wake up and then have a rotten start to the day with having to fit a shower in after breakfast and it just makes for a yucky start of the day for me.  So, I have had a good two days. I did accomplish a lot yesterday. I also decided to sell my rubber stamps as I rarely use them and will not use them for quite some time. So, they must go.

It has also been great to stay home for two days!! Thus, much get accomplished in those two days. We do have a school meeting today so we will go out for a while this afternoon and meet and run errands. So, we are all filling up on a good bowl of oatmeal this morning before our outing.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Eight hours of sleep

I had eight hours of sleep last night!!! This is amazing for  me my as my husband is sheep hunting and I usually stay up extrememely late on his first night away. But I was in bed at 11:30 (early for me) and I was asleep by 12:00. I woke up at 8:00. I have let the dog out, taken a shower, paid a couple of bills online, and now two blessings are up and eating breakfast as I blog. (one of my blessings sleeps like me, up late and in late) She will have the toughest time adjusting from summer schedule to fall schedule. I do not keep an early bedtime in the summer as we have all that sunlight and Dad does not get home until 5:00, why put them to bed at 8:00? So they stay up until later and we all pretty much go to bed at the same time. But now we are all adjusting to earlier bed times, even me!!

Alaska weather update: It is 43 degrees and it is still overcast with rain on and off!  The leaves on the trees are beginning to turn yellow in places and other plants are getting their fall color, the fireweed leaves are a nice red now. I need to get out and clean up the yard for fall but I do not want to go out there. I only go out to fetch with Emmy and run out her energy, which worked very well last night.

I have placed about 90% of the school stuff, which means I am well on my way and there are no piles left on the floor. Everything is neatly put away or in bins to be stored.

So, maybe next week will be a fun filled week!! I sure hope so!

May the Lord find us faithful.

My to do list today

If I put my whole to do list here I would not have any time to actually work on the list. But, I have figured out that I have all of the school stuff out on the shelves. I need to put what we will not need this year away. Out of sight but not out of reach. So, I pulled up a few unused storage bins from our crawl space. I learned from Flylady.net a few years ago not to hold on to unneeded, unloved items, thus the empty bins!! So, I will store the needed eventually but not now items and have some space. (Hopefully) So, I am off to clear the clutter and get these things together for school. School starts for us in two weeks.

May the Lord find us faithful.

Back to routine

Tomorrow we will get back to some sense of order and routine. I have a house that needs a lot of care but we will get it done this week and have next week to do a little easing into the school days. Once I get the school stuff organized!!!

May the Lord find us faithful.

Saturday

Today is Saturday and it is not raining. It is overcast but it is not raining. We have had a lot of rain lately. This week has been busy. The kitchen at church is painted, there are other small jobs to do but the paint is on the walls and cabinets and the room has definitely been cleaned.( Now I must clean my house this afternoon)

We have had a family day so far.

May the Lord find us faithful.