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Good morning!  It is super foggy out and supposed to go up to 60 degrees today!  But I think be rainy also.

 

Today is certamen day!  We have 8 kids and two teams competing.  My biggest fear is that the organizers will try to recruit me to be a moderator.  I always feel intensely intimidated by all those Latin teachers since I just learned along with me own teens and never got past the NLE 2 level!

 

So that will take up most of the day.

Dh has been doing amazing things cleaning out and reorganizing our basement.  Today the carpet guys are coming to fix our carpet in what we are now dubbing the media room.  We had to rip out the built in shelves so there is a big gap between where the carpet ends and the wall begins.

 

Ds 22 yo is going to take ds 19 yo to his flute lesson this a.m.  DD 16 yo is up in New York for the weekend, having a blast hopefully!

 

No idea what's for dinner.  I kind of want dh to take me out, but that might not happen as I think he is planning on visiting his dad today.

 

Happy Saturday!

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A quiet morning here, a few hours to just be still. Very rare on a Saturday for us.

About to make some hot tea and read.

 

Later:

Pick up dd from sleepover ✅

Grocery ✅

Take mom from the rehab place to her home and get her settled. Stay until the next helper comes. ✅

 

dinner - possibly out to eat?

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Good morning!

 

I am hoping for a very relaxing, nonproductive day today. Yesterday, I pushed through my migraine to get a lot of work done, and boy, was that an epic mistake. By the end of the day, all I could manage was to lay on the couch like a lifeless blob with a heating pad on my head - it was ugly! Today, the headache is gone but the migraine hangover remains, so I'm doing no work other than making sure all my humans and animals are fed.

 

•read and relax

•spend a lot of time with horses

•try to find my favorite yoga pants which have gone missing (check dd's room first :001_rolleyes: )

•dinner: creamy broccoli soup

•watch hockey tonight 

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Good morning....

The school stuff will be copy and pasted through out the week and things that are done will be deleted

- coffee.... lots of coffee

- history videos (he posted clips of the HBO John Adams series, I recorded the entire series over the weekend so I will just watch what I recorded)- 1 episode watched

- read primary documents and journal thoughts about those- 3/13 done (I’m a week behind on this)

- start history issue paper due 3/4, turn into online writing lab for 10 extra credit points- started said paper

- read/notes/chapter reviews for chapters 5-9 in microbiology- read ch. 5, about 1/2 done reading ch. 6

- unit 3 and 4 questions for microbiology that are online and assigned as homework- unit 3 is done

- unit 3 and 4 study modules (if we complete these we get 20 points head start on exams)

- lab exercises for microbiology

- wait for amazon delivery (mainly books for the girls but I have a couple things to help with school stuff, a lap desk and wireless headphones)- got it, now waiting until the room is done to give the girls their books

- tidy living room- good enough for today

- tidy kitchen- done

- laundry- waiting to fill up the washer

- fold/put away laundry- tomorrow... maybe

- look up plans for a cheap chicken coop and other chicken stuff since dh said that we could get some chickens for dd1 so she can join the poultry club for 4-h- well I did order a couple of books about raising chickens from amazon that will be here on Monday

- have girls purge of their room and reorganize it- just a few finishing touches that can wait until tomorrow

- dinner- made egg drop soup

- video chat with dh before girls go to bed- done

- baths/showers-

- bedtime routine-

- anything else I get done- made sure dh has pictures of things the girls want from the AG store in Chicago (well the things we will actually get), took trash to outside can, put flea meds on dog (need dh for the cat, one to part her fur and the other to squeeze the stuff on)

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Morning, all!

 

Still a little chilly this morning, but supposed to warm up.  

 

To do:

groceries for mom, visit

high school baseball is in full swing, dh has game this afternoon

library to return books, movies

roast in crockpot for dinner

read, do school stuff, relax

 

Have a great day!

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We had a cheerful, relaxing breakfast. I did the frugal housewife thing -- made omelettes with leftover roasted potatoes, plus shallots and herbs (and Brie for dd). Dd also had a TJ Irish banger (sausage, only stocked this time of year). I cut the remains of the wheel of Brie into easy portions for kid snacking.

 

Weekend breakfasts always cheer me up, partly because we have wonderful M A Hadley pottery with farm animals on it. Mary Alice Hadley was one of a group of women ceramists in the 1930's. I recently got cute farm animal napkin rings -- colored resin, not too cartoony, but not in 'ghastly good taste' all-white ceramic either. Anyway, eating with a bunch of smiling pigs and cows always puts me in a good mood. (Why I am not a minimalist.)

 

PSA: Sunday NY Times has a whole section devoted to puzzles, in addition to their regular puzzles.

 

ETA

Selkie, hope you are feeling better today.

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Crazy morning here. Things not done yesterday had to be today.

 

Drop DH at work

 

Grocery shopping (multiple store's)

 

Put all that stuff away while DD5 (whose very independent)decides she needs urgent help with multiple things.

 

Take a few minutes to rest, sort-of

 

Library

 

Laundromat

 

Lunch with DH

 

School

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It's amazing how a good sleep and no urgent tasks can brighten one's day. We went to our town dump to drop off some metal or recycling. What an attractively neat and tidy place, lol! We meandered off to the local library, which was buzzing with lectures and a concert. The vegetable store was filled with fresh, bright produce.

 

No, I am not on drugs. I slept late and am well rested. Everything is better!

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We had a cheerful, relaxing breakfast. I did the frugal housewife thing -- made omelettes with leftover roasted potatoes, plus shallots and herbs (and Brie for dd). Dd also had a TJ Irish banger (sausage, only stocked this time of year). I cut the remains of the wheel of Brie into easy portions for kid snacking.

 

Weekend breakfasts always cheer me up, partly because we have wonderful M A Hadley pottery with farm animals on it. Mary Alice Hadley was one of a group of women ceramists in the 1930's. I recently got cute farm animal napkin rings -- colored resin, not too cartoony, but not in 'ghastly good taste' all-white ceramic either. Anyway, eating with a bunch of smiling pigs and cows always puts me in a good mood. (Why I am not a minimalist.)

 

PSA: Sunday NY Times has a whole section devoted to puzzles, in addition to their regular puzzles.

 

ETA

Selkie, hope you are feeling better today.

Thank you, Alessandra! I'm feeling much better.

 

I looked up Mary Alice Hadley's work and like it very much, especially the farm animals. :) I'm a minimalist at heart, but I enjoy reading your descriptions of your beautiful table settings and meals.

 

Today has been a much-needed lazy day. I mopped the kitchen floor because it was filthy, but other than that, I've just been reading and goofing around online. Oh, I did DNA swab tests on two of my mutts, who were surprisingly cooperative. Can't wait to get the results.

 

Dh and kids are out taking a walk in the 34* rain (crazy people), and when they get back, we will run get sushi for dinner. 

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I have tried to “sleep with the baby†but it isn’t working. So instead I :

 

Did the hand washing and wiped down counters.

 

Put another load in the washing machine.

 

Now dh has made it impossible for me to vacuum because he’s taking a nap so I am going to crate baby and meet my day 41 step goal.

 

 

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Thank you, Alessandra! I'm feeling much better.

 

I looked up Mary Alice Hadley's work and like it very much, especially the farm animals. :) I'm a minimalist at heart, but I enjoy reading your descriptions of your beautiful table settings and meals.

 

Today has been a much-needed lazy day. I mopped the kitchen floor because it was filthy, but other than that, I've just been reading and goofing around online. Oh, I did DNA swab tests on two of my mutts, who were surprisingly cooperative. Can't wait to get the results.

 

Dh and kids are out taking a walk in the 34* rain (crazy people), and when they get back, we will run get sushi for dinner.

Thank you! I enjoy reading about your horses. I always wanted to live in a place where I could have horses, but I didn't realize quite how much work it was, until reading your day by day descriptions. But I do love the smell of a stable and the sounds of the animals.

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Got home from dinner out to find our water heater doesn't work. No one here has showered today; kids not since Wed. So no church for us tomorrow. I am still sick and dd was up way late at a sleepover, so a day to sleep in is okay. We could go to my mom's, but it's too much work, too late.

 

Dh has to wait on the repair guy, who is supposed to come tomorrow. The "window" is 8am-4pm. Of course, the warranty is just a few months expired.

 

At least the water heater isn't leaking or flooding our family room! When that happened, we had a lot of collateral damage, in addition to replacing the unit itself.

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