- We had church this morning, and when we left we bumped into Reagan working. She had to stay all afternoon today and help with Camp Geyer set up. It was a long day for her, but I do think that she enjoyed it.
- The rest of us left church and went to Grannymom's house. She made pork chops which were a hit with Robby-he even got the recipe. We stayed for a bit to visit, but then we had to hurry off so I could get to church too.
- I had to get everything ready for my cooking track this afternoon. It was a bit overwhelming-moving tables, finding more tables for our griddles, getting the tables as ready as I could-table cloths plus all the things the kids need except for the food, and their was an 8 foot table filled with all of the supplies that I had asked for. It was a lot, but Keaton, Graham, and Whitman were there to help.
- Keaton would have been my best help, but she got an invite to a friend's house so she didn't stick around there long. I did discover that the intern (Reagan) didn't buy enough pie crusts for me, so I ran to Walmart on the way home.
- Robby had already been cooking when we came home. We planned supper-2 things of ooey gooey and lasagna-all of which need the oven that we don't have. However, the toaster oven did work for us, but you can just bake one thing at a time in there so he had to work all afternoon baking supper.
- The Wilsons came over to eat our Sunday supper plus we did some baseball watching. In the middle of it all, Campbell came home from the birthday lake party. She had lots of fun, but I'm not sure if her sunburn will be fun tomorrow.
- Graham graciously offered to go and pick her up so that was nice. I think that he enjoys driving quite a bit right now. When she came home, she told us all about her outing as we watched the rest of the baseball games.
- I worked on the kitchen, but I also had to hem Reagan's shirts tonight-it was a rush order so I didn't have time to get them to Grannymom. I think the tshirt material was too soft for my sewing machine to work or maybe my sewing machine is dying-either way, I had to sew them by hand. As I worked all I could think about was that I was glad I don't live during Little House on the Prairie days or all of our clothing would be falling off of us!
June 1, 2025
May 31, 2025
- The one chore that I didn't finish yesterday was cleaning the potties so I made sure that I did that pretty soon after waking up this morning. I don't really know why I dread it since it takes about 20 minutes if that. The worst part is having to walk all around the house-I sound like an 80 year old!
- Robby was the first one to leave this morning. He had a few errands plus he had to mail a package-Graham, Whitman, and Keaton sold one of their Coca cola things that they rescued from the dump pile. Now they just have about 200 coke bottle to sell.
- I took Campbell to a friend's house, and they soon headed to the lake with 18 friends to celebrate Brooklyn's 16th birthday. I know that she is having a blast-I'm following their photo circle, and Campbell has posted most of the 300 pictures. All of my girls love taking pictures!
- When I came back from dropping her off, I left with Robby and Keaton. We stopped at Sams first and then 5 Guys. While we were in there, Keaton went into Platos to browse. After that stop, we dropped her off at Grannymom's house to help her with some yard work-they did a bit of bartering since Grannymom bought Keaton a dress as a payment for her work. Keaton was super pleased with her dress!
- The boys played pickleball this afternoon, but they were home in plenty of time for supper. We had hot dogs, beans, chili, and mac and cheese (per Graham's request). There was also brownies-the fridge is working well today, so that is one good thing. However, it is a wee bit difficult to cook a meal without a functioning oven or stove. It does make things challenging...and a bit exciting.
May 30, 2025
- I had a pretty big list of things to do today-and I did most everything except clean the potties and a few other non fun things like that. I almost did mess up pretty early this morning-I had not heard Reagan moving around upstairs, and I was about to text her when I realized that it was Friday, and she didn't have to go to work.
- I had to leave a note for everyone when I took a walk this morning, and then when I went to Nonna and Pops' house for a few minutes, I had to leave a note again because no one was out of bed yet so I assumed that they were all still asleep.
- When I was getting ready to leave, Bentley was following me around like I had asked if she wanted to come. I relented and let her climb in the car to join me on our trip. I think that it wore her out because Bentley slept the rest f the day away.
- Graham wore his blood pressure cuff all night long, but he was ready to get it off this morning. I went upstairs to gather everything, and he said that he was going right back to sleep. Indeed he did; Campbell had me wake him up before he had to go to work this afternoon.
- Not too long after they left for work, Reagan left to spend the night at Kennedy's house, and Anderson went to play basketball with some friends for most of the afternoon.
- Robby and I left with Keaton and Campbell to pick up Grannymom, Nonna, and Pops. Then we dropped off the girls to babysit once again-this girls have done well babysitting the last few days. If they had some more families to work for Campbell would already have enough saved for a car.
- After dropping the girls off, the rest of us went to Riverside Grocery for some catfish for supper. The line wasn't too long, and we found a seat easily. The food was good, and it was a fun evening. After eating, we dropped everyone back off at Nonna's house.
- Whitman opted to stay at the house. When I invited him to come, he said that it sounded like a good adult meal. He enjoyed hanging back at the house sneaking a gatorade or two.
- Back at the house, Graham left to play pickleball while Robby worked on the fridge some more-this morning it wasn't working, but right now it is-it has been cleaned, defrosted, vacuumed, and prayed over so maybe it will last a bit longer.
- I had to run and pick up the girls from babysitting, and Graham is currently still out playing pickleball. Since I'm full from supper, I'll skip ice cream (most of it actually melted this morning), but I'll work on finishing my book.
May 29, 2025
- This morning started off with Graham and me going to the nutrition center for his second of three visits. This visit was fairly short, but he did leave with a blood pressure cuff that he has to wear for 24 hours.
- I had assumed that it would be smaller than a regular blood pressure cuff, but no it is a big massive thing that makes some noises when it takes his blood pressure every 20 minutes. Not only does he had to deal with that, but I have to write down what he was doing every time it goes off. Thankfully, it is just for a few more hours.
- I made it home with him just as Robby was taking Campbell and Keaton to babysit for the afternoon. They spent the whole afternoon with their two favorite little people.
- I guess everyone was working for a little bit today. On our way home from the Nutrition Center, I dropped Graham off to help friends move. When I came home with the car, Anderson left to go and help as well.
- Reagan was at work as well. I have heard that she is very efficient at work and finishes every task they give her pretty quickly. I wonder where she gets that from-she a mini me, but shhh, don't tell her.
- After a few weeks of juggling life without all of the cars here, we were able to pick up the van this evening. Robby and I picked up the van before picking up the girls. Robby took Keaton home while I took Campbell to a birthday party.
- After dropping her off, I went to eat supper with my friends. We visited until they closed the restaurant, and then we stood out in the parking lot until it was time for me to go and pick up Campbell. I thought that I might be finished in time to run to the library or even Pops' house, but we were a bit too chatty for that.
- I picked up Campbell and made it home, soon afterwards the boys were home from their pickleballing. They had fun with quite a few friends this evening. Now, I'm finishing the blog while trying to get all of the information about the kids' evenings.
May 28, 2025
- I tried to get up a bit earlier this morning because Campbell, Keaton, and I were going shopping pretty early. We had to run our errands and get home before Campbell had to go to work. We moved pretty quickly this morning.
- Our first stop was Mardels for me to have Anderson's name put on his new Bible that the church gave him for graduation. While I was getting that done, Campbell and Keaton got started in Hobby Lobby. They had already moved through the list and met me to find one last thing.
- Next up was Walmart where we all split up. The list was fairly long as the bill reflected, but we managed to find everything that we needed. I did have to run into Sams to complete the list-shampoo for Graham.
- We hurried home so Campbell would have a little bit of time at home before leaving for work. Her and Graham left, and Whitman and I started on his school work. We were able to finish a lot faster today than yesterday-some days Whitman just works faster than other days. I guess we are all like that a little bit.
- Tonight Reagan had to go to work to help with decorating night while everyone else had to go for their first mission trip meeting. The big boys went to eat and to play pickleball afterwards while everyone else came home with Reagan. They were all quick to put a frozen pizza in the oven (toaster over) when they came home.
- The new oven was supposed to be here today, but last night Robby saw that it was delayed until next week. We are improvising just fine around here-especially with the toaster oven. Robby and I are watching a movie, and it is his turn to get the ice cream tonight.
May 27, 2025
- I had plans to walk outside this morning, but since it was raining, and I'm not that dedicated, that never happened. When I left to pick up Keaton from her sleepover, it wasn't raining so I renewed my walking plans. However, by the time that we made it home, it was raining once again.
- Campbell's friend left just about when Keaton and I made it home. I think both of them went upstairs and went back to sleep. I worked on straightening the bonus room from Campbell's sleepover and straightening the school room from the coke bottle selling, Collide prep, and Campbell and Keaton's nail salon.
- Then I'm not really sure what I did next, but I did manage to stay busy all morning-of course, I did manage to find some time to read as well. Soon though, Robby and I were leaving with Bentley. She had a vet appointment for her shots. She doesn't mind going to the vet and really enjoys all of the smells plus the treats she received after her shots.
- When we came home, I did some school work with Whitman, and soon Reagan arrived home from her day at work. She works harder at work than at school-she's even been turning down pickleball. The boys left for Bible study tonight, and they even ended up playing pickleball.
- Whitman made supper tonight-one pot pasta. I told him he could make a recipe from his cookbook each week this summer-he even has a recipe picked out for next week. Robby and I are now watching a movie from a book that I have read-I don't think that he is that interested in it, but now I want to read the book again.
May 26, 2025
- This was a fairly quiet Memorial day. I woke up this morning to go to the bathroom, and I thought it was 6:30 and still early. When I climbed back in bed, I saw the time on my phone and was not happy to see that it was already 8:30. It still looked dark outside because the rain was coming down all morning.
- We stayed in bed a little bit longer, but I finally climbed out and started doing a few things around the house. At one point, Robby asked me if I was being productive. My answer was "kind of." I spent a good deal of time this morning working on the kids' cookbooks-I have been collecting recipes times 6 for years now so every few months I have to organize the recipes and put them in the cookbooks. Since these cookbooks are for when the kids leave the house, I am not really sure if working on them is actually being productive.
- Robby made the kids breakfast-it was actually closer to lunch time. He made biscuits, bacon, sausage, and eggs. Everyone was sleeping when he started on breakfast, but the kids came slowly creeping down the stair once they started smelling the bacon frying...or maybe it was the smoke alarms going off.
- After breakfast, Robby and I went to work-this week is operation clean out the house. We managed to move a few things out of the bonus room, the bonus room bathroom attic, and the bonus room attic-it is nice to have all these attics in this house, but I have filled them completely.
- We took load after load to the garage including Robby's old collection of Coke bottles. The kids were helping us haul things to the garage until we got to the Coke bottles-then we lost all of our help. Graham, Keaton, and Whitman found seats and worked for over an hour checking the price of everything on Ebay. They have now stored over half of the bottles in the school room to sell-so we are kind of just moving our junk around the house!
- Robby and I ran to Grannymom's house for a little bit and then to Sams. While he was picking up our pretzels at Sams, I ran into Walmart. The pretzels took a while so I just kept adding things to my arms.
- We picked Keaton up when we rolled in the driveway and left to take her to a friend's house to spend the night. Campbell also has a friend over here spending the night. The big boys had had enough of time at the house, so they went to play pickeball with their friends after we made chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, and cheese dip for our supper. Robby and I were pretty pleased that we have fed everyone two meals tonight.
- I have read and worked on school things tonight, but now we are watching tv and about to eat some ice cream.
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