Well, right after that last post I went to bed and lo and behold our devotion for the night is about giving things to God. Hmmm, maybe I should have tried that a week ago? So, I did and I woke up in a much better frame of mind this morning.
Other good news-I ordered a solution book on-line and it showed up today. This book has all the odd problems for my book worked out, not just the answers. This helps so much sometimes when you just aren't getting it. Maybe Algebra won't take two hours tonight?
We had a full crew in the kitchen today. Wow! What a difference that makes. I didn't come home exhausted and I was home before 3pm. The lady who lost her husband was there. She had one moment that she had to go cry for a while, but we all told her to do that whenever she needs to. It's going to take time and she needs to be at work, otherwise, she's home drinking. She has a middle school age daughter and a high school age daughter, I'm not sure they are dealing with mom well, but I can't imagine what they are all going through. Keep praying for them.
I have high hopes of a snow day tomorrow so that I can be home for a day. I'm in a baking mood and I really should make some food for a couple of families. Better late than never. And thanks to my husband and boys, the house is cleaned and laundry is done so I don't have that hanging over my head. Love those guys!!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Can I Get Off The Merry-Go-Round-Please?
A quick update, because I know not everyone is aware of life around our house right now.
1.I am working in the kitchen at school, indefinitely. One worker lost her husband two weeks ago and another's husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. I am the only sub the kitchen has and it's money we need. I was subbing because I knew I would need the time this semester, but the need for necessities won out.
2.College Algebra is kicking my butt. I've spent over 2 hours on the last two lessons each. Of course, this could be because I'm exhausted from working 8-5 for 5 days last week and having three basketball games at night! I'm hoping this week is better working 7:30-2:30.
3. I am also judging speech again this year. I committed to it many months ago when I thought I wouldn't be working much and we would need the income. This means I will be working 6 days a week as most meets are on Saturday. (Except this week when the meet is on Wednesday. Hallelujah!)
4. I am taking 9, repeat 9 credit hours this semester. May 2 can't come soon enough!!
5. My family is really feeling the effects of this. P has been fabulous with everything! When I got home from speech on Saturday he and the boys had cleaned all the downstairs and finished laundry! Love them!!
6. Pray for rest for P and I, pray for patience with boys, and vice versa and pray we make it through this semester!
1.I am working in the kitchen at school, indefinitely. One worker lost her husband two weeks ago and another's husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. I am the only sub the kitchen has and it's money we need. I was subbing because I knew I would need the time this semester, but the need for necessities won out.
2.College Algebra is kicking my butt. I've spent over 2 hours on the last two lessons each. Of course, this could be because I'm exhausted from working 8-5 for 5 days last week and having three basketball games at night! I'm hoping this week is better working 7:30-2:30.
3. I am also judging speech again this year. I committed to it many months ago when I thought I wouldn't be working much and we would need the income. This means I will be working 6 days a week as most meets are on Saturday. (Except this week when the meet is on Wednesday. Hallelujah!)
4. I am taking 9, repeat 9 credit hours this semester. May 2 can't come soon enough!!
5. My family is really feeling the effects of this. P has been fabulous with everything! When I got home from speech on Saturday he and the boys had cleaned all the downstairs and finished laundry! Love them!!
6. Pray for rest for P and I, pray for patience with boys, and vice versa and pray we make it through this semester!
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Beans, beans, the magical fruit....
:)
Okay, not bored now. I went to the store to buy Great Northern Beans I had missed getting on the grocery list. They were $1.03 a can! Seriously? So, I checked out the bagged beans. $1.19 for a pound. Seemed the better way to go to me. But, I've never cooked beans, so I'm carefully reading the instructions on the bag and taking care of them.
I think it's safe to say, I have passed the point in the life of my family of when I can do laundry once a week and that's it. With four games this week, it's been a rush to get the uniform washed before the next day, (especially when you don't get home until midnight the night before). Then with it being winter, there just seems to be more clothes. So, I have yet another load of laundry in to try to get everything clean before a new week begins.
Doing my first college algebra lesson this semester is now out of the question because A's friends have showed up. They are two boys from a set of triplets in his class. He had called earlier in the day and one had to do homework, so they just showed up. I now have Mario Bros. going and A is being his typical loud, game playing self. Seriously, he is so loud! It's kind of funny to listen to him. (And annoying.)
Can you tell me how I lost a year's worth of pictures? I think that's a mystery I will go try to solve. I know I'm behind in getting pictures in albums because it's so hard to find just plain Jane albums right now that fit great quantities of pictures. I finally caved and bought one the other day that is a style I try to avoid, but seems to be the best you can do anymore. I sat down the yesterday to try to put pictures in and it got confusing. The last pictures in albums end at Christmas '06. The next pictures I have waiting to go in an album start in May of '08? What happened to '07? I looked through the boys albums and I have pictures in there for '07, it just seems to be the ones I term "family pictures". Those pictures that don't really have one boy in them or has all of us. I need to sit down with the '07 disk and the albums and see if I can figure what is missing. I also need to check Snapfish and see if any are on there. But, I think '07 is before I started using it. I'm wondering if I knew I didn't have a family album and I just printed off the boys pix that would go in their albums? Who knows? Apparently, not me!
Okay, not bored now. I went to the store to buy Great Northern Beans I had missed getting on the grocery list. They were $1.03 a can! Seriously? So, I checked out the bagged beans. $1.19 for a pound. Seemed the better way to go to me. But, I've never cooked beans, so I'm carefully reading the instructions on the bag and taking care of them.
I think it's safe to say, I have passed the point in the life of my family of when I can do laundry once a week and that's it. With four games this week, it's been a rush to get the uniform washed before the next day, (especially when you don't get home until midnight the night before). Then with it being winter, there just seems to be more clothes. So, I have yet another load of laundry in to try to get everything clean before a new week begins.
Doing my first college algebra lesson this semester is now out of the question because A's friends have showed up. They are two boys from a set of triplets in his class. He had called earlier in the day and one had to do homework, so they just showed up. I now have Mario Bros. going and A is being his typical loud, game playing self. Seriously, he is so loud! It's kind of funny to listen to him. (And annoying.)
Can you tell me how I lost a year's worth of pictures? I think that's a mystery I will go try to solve. I know I'm behind in getting pictures in albums because it's so hard to find just plain Jane albums right now that fit great quantities of pictures. I finally caved and bought one the other day that is a style I try to avoid, but seems to be the best you can do anymore. I sat down the yesterday to try to put pictures in and it got confusing. The last pictures in albums end at Christmas '06. The next pictures I have waiting to go in an album start in May of '08? What happened to '07? I looked through the boys albums and I have pictures in there for '07, it just seems to be the ones I term "family pictures". Those pictures that don't really have one boy in them or has all of us. I need to sit down with the '07 disk and the albums and see if I can figure what is missing. I also need to check Snapfish and see if any are on there. But, I think '07 is before I started using it. I'm wondering if I knew I didn't have a family album and I just printed off the boys pix that would go in their albums? Who knows? Apparently, not me!
Saturday, in the Park, I think it was the 4th of July....
Okay, so nothing about that title has anything to do with this post other than the fact that it's Saturday here. And I love the 4th of July.
I'm bored. Can you tell? How did I ever have enough to do when I stayed home before? I always felt like I never had enough time. Now, I'm bored at home. I'm actually thinking I need to go do some math, on a Saturday!!
I could be painting the floor in the storage closet in preparation for it to be carpeted, but I'm totally out of the remodeling mode. I think I'm ready to just do schoolwork and get this semester over. Time to turn my focus on something else. The remodeling gets frustrating because there is only so much I can do up there and then I have to wait on others. Others that get called into work on Saturdays.
I also don't think they should have a weekend break after going back to school from Christmas break. I mean, geez, they just had two weeks off, who needs a weekend? They are just bored again and picking on each other and fighting.
D has a game today. The fourth one of the week. We have only gone to two. We just can't afford to go to all the away games. It would have cost $30 this week at least without figuring in gas money. Someone did call today and ask us to ride with them if we were going. When I said we weren't going, she made the comment about it just getting to be a lot. I let her think that. D made three free throws in the game last night and he played a lot on Thursday night because we were playing the freshman team of a larger school. They had 20 freshman, we took our four freshman and then four sophomores. We didn't lose as bad as we thought! :)
Apparently, A's team didn't get registered in time for league play so they will only be playing in tournaments. It's hard to be disappointed that you're not going to be going to basketball games every Saturday for two months. Especially if you have filled a number of Saturdays in those same months with speech judging.
B's birthday has kind of snuck up on me. I need to run to a nearby Wal-Mart and get some cake mixes and a last part to his birthday present. Unfortunately for him, that's just going to be underwear. :) He needs some and he has decided he doesn't like tidy whities anymore, so I need to get some boxers for him. He is so opinionated on clothes. He actually spent all his Christmas money plus some other he had to buy an Under Armour shirt and it had to be Under Armour. I tried to explain to him he was paying a lot for just the name. Maybe not, I do believe a lot of technology goes into their clothing, but does an almost 10 year old need that technology?
I feel like I'm griping so I better just sign off. No subbing on the calendar for the rest of January, which actually isn't a bad thing because then maybe I can get my hours in for my practicum without trying to schedule around subbing. The homework is not looking too bad for this semester. It's a 16 week semester and most of my classes just have 8 learning modules so that means I can take two weeks on a module (or unit) if needed. That takes some of the pressure off. I was also glad to see that even though my algebra is with a different instructor than I've had for the last two, he has it set up the same way.
Have a great Saturday and maybe where you are, it's nice enough to go to the park!
I'm bored. Can you tell? How did I ever have enough to do when I stayed home before? I always felt like I never had enough time. Now, I'm bored at home. I'm actually thinking I need to go do some math, on a Saturday!!
I could be painting the floor in the storage closet in preparation for it to be carpeted, but I'm totally out of the remodeling mode. I think I'm ready to just do schoolwork and get this semester over. Time to turn my focus on something else. The remodeling gets frustrating because there is only so much I can do up there and then I have to wait on others. Others that get called into work on Saturdays.
I also don't think they should have a weekend break after going back to school from Christmas break. I mean, geez, they just had two weeks off, who needs a weekend? They are just bored again and picking on each other and fighting.
D has a game today. The fourth one of the week. We have only gone to two. We just can't afford to go to all the away games. It would have cost $30 this week at least without figuring in gas money. Someone did call today and ask us to ride with them if we were going. When I said we weren't going, she made the comment about it just getting to be a lot. I let her think that. D made three free throws in the game last night and he played a lot on Thursday night because we were playing the freshman team of a larger school. They had 20 freshman, we took our four freshman and then four sophomores. We didn't lose as bad as we thought! :)
Apparently, A's team didn't get registered in time for league play so they will only be playing in tournaments. It's hard to be disappointed that you're not going to be going to basketball games every Saturday for two months. Especially if you have filled a number of Saturdays in those same months with speech judging.
B's birthday has kind of snuck up on me. I need to run to a nearby Wal-Mart and get some cake mixes and a last part to his birthday present. Unfortunately for him, that's just going to be underwear. :) He needs some and he has decided he doesn't like tidy whities anymore, so I need to get some boxers for him. He is so opinionated on clothes. He actually spent all his Christmas money plus some other he had to buy an Under Armour shirt and it had to be Under Armour. I tried to explain to him he was paying a lot for just the name. Maybe not, I do believe a lot of technology goes into their clothing, but does an almost 10 year old need that technology?
I feel like I'm griping so I better just sign off. No subbing on the calendar for the rest of January, which actually isn't a bad thing because then maybe I can get my hours in for my practicum without trying to schedule around subbing. The homework is not looking too bad for this semester. It's a 16 week semester and most of my classes just have 8 learning modules so that means I can take two weeks on a module (or unit) if needed. That takes some of the pressure off. I was also glad to see that even though my algebra is with a different instructor than I've had for the last two, he has it set up the same way.
Have a great Saturday and maybe where you are, it's nice enough to go to the park!
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