- I feel like I packed everything that I could into this day-and I didn't even leave the house. I have done most of my daily list and 24.8 percent of my weekly/monthly list. I would get up and see the exact amount I have completed of my daily list, but I'm tired, and since it doesn't really matter!
- Coming back from a trip is always a bit busy plus for some reason I made this the day that everyone took a practice ACT. Campbell did hers yesterday, and Keaton and Whitman did theirs today. Let's just say the youngest made the best score, but everyone has some work to do which is fine because we all have plenty of time! (Well, Campbell doesn't have that much time, but she will be fine.)
- Marley slept until 8 this morning so we don't have to move into the camper. Hopefully, that trend continues. My goal would be to start walking again in the mornings, but staying in bed a little bit longer is nice too.
- Everyone did their school work today, and because we were trying to squeeze in the ACT too, school did seem to take forever. That was fine though because it is all finished now. Campbell and Graham went to work at the normal time, and Keaton and Whitman even had some downtime this afternoon...though he does have one more school thing, but I'll let it slide.
- This afternoon I cleaned the caper and reloaded all of the clean things back in. I should have restocked it with all of the things I needed to add, like forks-I gave all my extras to Reagan, but I decided to save something for tomorrow.
- Robby is bringing home supper for the kids, and they have been watching him like a hawk. He has been out running some errands. Campbell is not watching Robby because she is out with some friends. Last night she figured up how much she had spent during the month of February, and Robby's total was vastly different. She probably should be home working on finding a 3rd or 4th job, but you only live once.
- Marley and I currently in the living room-I have been leaving Marley alone for longer and longer time periods during the day. Today, I went outside to cut the laropa while she was in the living room. When I came back inside, everything was as it should be. I do know though that will probably not be the case every time that she is unattended.
March 2, 2026
March 1, 2026-Camping in February?
Once again Marley gets a gold star. She slept until 10 again this morning. Now don't think that I'm slighting Bentley; we know that she is the perfect dog, and trust me, she has been given many, many gold stars.
Pretty much as soon as we climbed out of bed, we went to work packing up the inside and the outside. I was dreading the ride home because Marley was a little stressed on the way down to Degray even with Campbell and Keaton beside her.
I made Whitman wake up and ride with me so he could handle her during the ride home. There really would be no way I could deal with her in the white van because there isn't a seat near me that I could have my hand on her during the ride. However, from the moment I started the car, Marley was perfect. She would try to sit in Whitman's lap some, but mostly she just laid right beside him and was super content. I'm not really sure why the change because on the way there, I regretted not getting her a marijuana gummy or two to snack on.
Robby pulled out of the campground a bit before me, and it took me a while to catch up to him. Eventually though, I did tuck in behind him for the rest of the ride home. Silly Whitman did look up and said, "well, that camper looks like ours."
We went right to unpacking as quickly as we could. I like to take one load into the house, put it away, and then try to do a few other things in the house before going to get the next load. So when the camper was finally emptied, the house was kind of straightened as well.
The kids went to church this morning and then ate Sunday lunch at Pops' house. They made it home about the same time that we had finished with the camper. Now, I still have to clean the camper, but it is emptied and everything that came out is now clean and ready to be put back in again.
This afternoon Robby ran some errands while I kept up with the laundry and tried to mark a few things off of this weeks list. I think that most everyone took a nap here except for Campbell; she did an ACT practice tests and then went to Rock Creek.
The Wilson's came over for supper tonight. They helped us clean out the fridge and ate our camper food. When they left, we quickly cleaned the kitchen and now the wonderful weekend is over!
February 28, 2026-Camping in February?
It was another wonderful camping day-this morning not a one of us stirred in the camper until 10. Marley was still sound asleep at 10 and only started moving around because she heard Robby and me talking. Our morning conversation was something like this: "We should move into the camper?" "What time is it?" "10:00" "Definitely moving into the camper."
We haven't slept late like today since Marley came to live at our house. Bentley was still pretty tired and in no hurry to go out, but Marley was a little more anxious. Robby and I started working on breakfast-eggs in the hole, pancakes, and sausage. Robby wrote Anderson to come over for breakfast, and he was here before Robby was done cooking. Reagan loves the cafeteria, but Anderson is not a big fan of it at all, so he was definitely up for a home cooked breakfast meal.
Soon after everyone finished their breakfasts, everyone left-Graham, Campbell, and Keaton headed home to Little Rock. Graham had a basketball game tonight (they lost, but came back quite a bit during the last half), Keaton had a party (Pops had to pick bring her home from it since all my other drivers were busy), and Campbell had to babysit (this was just her second time at this house, and she does well while she is there.) Anderson headed back to Ouachita because he had some school work and laundry for today.
Once everyone left, it was just us and Whitman. We didn't see much of him today because he was living his best life! Robby and I sat outside all day except for probably about an hour. I read and finished one book and started another. I had bought yarn to crochet some on this trip, but never really felt like pulling it out.
Around 6 we started on supper. Anderson invited a few people to come tonight to eat, but everyone was gone, so he just brought one friend which was still perfect. We are glad to feed one or many! Tonight we made meatball subs which were super easy to make and pretty good-they were good enough that Anderson took our extras home with him.
We watched some of the Hogs game, and then we started cleaning up. It didn't take too long to put everything away. Now hopefully tomorrow we will sleep super late again (not counting on it!)
February 27, 2026-Camping in February?
We weren't expecting much from Marley last night; we were even dreading it a little bit. However, she did so good and didn't wake up until 8:30. (This doesn't happen, and I'm not expecting it tonight.) After she woke up, Robby took her potty and then put her back in the kennel, and she slept even longer.
We all really didn't still until 9:30ish or even a bit later. Graham and I left around 11:30 for a quick trip to OBU. Graham has decided that he wants to add Business to his Communications major in the fall so we met with the dean of the business school. Then we saw Reagan and finally Anderson, before meeting with the lady that he will do work study with in the fall.
When we finished, Graham was famished so we ran to Sonic-and who was there, but Robby and everyone else. They had been to Walmart and needed a drink on the way back to camp. Once we were all back at camp, we pretty much stayed outside all afternoon.
The kids rode their bikes some, even Whitman. Anderson even came back to see us for a little bit. He visited for a while, and we asked him all of the questions that we could think of. When we left, we started on supper.
Reagan brought a group of friends to eat tonight, and boy did they eat! We thought that we had enough food, but we had to pull out more chicken because even though it was mostly girls they just kept going back to get seconds. One of them even requested oreo delight-we actually had made it for tomorrow night's meal, but we pulled it out of the freezer to eat some tonight!
The Smiths pulled in to their campsite late, but they came over and visited with us. After Reagan's people left, we moved by the fire and talked until Robby started putting the food up. We had a mess to clean up inside and outside. It didn't take too incredibly long to clean up, and then we took the dogs on a short walk-now, here's to hoping that everyone sleeps well tonight!
February 26, 2026-Camping in February?
Keaton and Campbell went to work this morning, and they were a bit disappointed that they didn't have any free sandwiches at ChickFilA. The rest of us did, so Robby headed the same way to pick up our sandwiches before they expired.
While Campbell and Keaton were at work, Whitman worked on his school. I should be able to say that Graham worked on his school as well. He did some, but he also did some xboxing and even some cleaning. This afternoon when I was leaving, I was also reminding him to make sure that he did his work that was due today! He could possibly be a procrastinator.
While Whitman was working, I did a bit of last minute packing plus I helped Graham organize all of his drawers. He has a lot of tshirts. We got rid of about 5-well, we didn't really get rid of them because we put 3 in Whitman's drawers to wear later and 2 in Anderson's drawers because they were his.
Around 1:30 Robby and Whitman left. They ran a few errands on the way to Degray, but they were there and set up before Campbell, Keaton, and I arrived. The girls stopped at a gas station on the way home, and after Campbell took a shower we left.
Graham didn't leave with us because he had a basketball game tonight. He knew that they were playing one of the best teams plus they only had 5 players tonight. Graham's team lost by a good margin, and the picture I saw of Graham he was dripping wet with sweat. He took Grannymom home after the game, went home to take a shower, and then drove on to the campsite.
When we did arrive at the campsite, Robby had everything set up. I just helped hang the lights-our lights are just perfect on this trip. It helps that we have a pretty great spot this weekend. And let's talk about the weather for a bit-we didn't really think that we would be able to camp this weekend since we weren't going to come if it was cold. Right now though the weather is perfect!
February 25, 2026
- It was another busy day around here. We did the school thing this morning, and school kind of flowed on into the afternoon. Graham and I were still working on his paper after noon today-we were going to work much earlier in the day, but he got a text saying that the internet was out at work today so no work for him and Campbell.
- Needless to say, they were devastated-ha! Graham did opt to go to church with me this evening. He wanted to go with me even though I was leaving so early because he gets a bit bored on days that he doesn't go to work.
- This afternoon I just ran around trying to get things ready for tomorrow. I made a pan of gluten free brownies for Reagan. Then I made a pan of sourdough brownies because I had a friend rave about the recipe. (Don't tell anyone, but I guess I messed it up a little bit because it is good, but they are by no means great.) I started worrying about those brownies so I just made a box of brownies. Seriously, we will never eat all of them! Plus tonight Robby made oreo delight and peanut butter pie to bring camping.
- I left for church early with Keaton and Graham because we had a few stops on the way. First, we stopped at Nonna and Pops' house to pick up some wire hangers. Then on to the library to drop off some books and pick up one. Finally, we went to Michaels so I could buy some yarn.
- I even splurged at Michaels and bought a candle (it was just 2.40), but when I came home I set my library bag which was full of everything from the car on the bar....and it fell over breaking my candle. Ugh!
- When we came home from church, I helped Robby finish up his cooking and now I'm setting on the couch!
February 24, 2026
- This was a fairly busy day-busy enough that I didn't even rewrite my to do list for tomorrow, I just added a few more things to mark off..or a few more things that I probably won't get around to marking off.
- We did our school this morning, and the morning went by very quickly. Soon Campbell and I were headed to take her Accuplacer test. We just did all three today without any studying at all just to get a baseline. She did fine, but we will have to start studying so she can pass all 3 before school starts in the fall. She is going to start studying math this week so she can try again in a couple of weeks.
- After we finished, we ran to Walmart to pick up a few things-mainly a drink for her. Then we browsed for a bit before doing some shopping and a delivery. Once at home, I had to work with Whitman, but we sped through everything so I could leave again.
- This time I met Robby at the store to do our shopping for this weekend. We never really made a list so hopefully we have everything. We will set down and figure things out tomorrow so maybe we will remember anything that we have missed.
- I picked up some supper on the way home, and everyone ate while I tried to straighten a few things and catch up a little bit. Right now Marley is sleeping, and I think that I'm going to have my second cup of hot chocolate!
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