Who's going to tackle Wednesday with me?

[Jean in Newcastle]

figure out credit card thing

hydrangeas?  (supposed to rain hard tomorrow so that probably won't happen)

laundry

shred files

[ScoutTN]

Good morning! It's grocery shopping day and a busy day online for me

Get kids up and going ✅ 

Last minute editing of my list ✅ 

Pick up milk ✅ 

Grocery shop ✅ 

Unload and put away ✅ 

Bible study small group meeting? No time. 

Lit class ✅ 

Remind Ds about Scout things ✅ 

Remind kids about piano lessons this afternoon ✅ 

Walk

Dinner is Italian sausage soup and a salad. ✅ 

 

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by ScoutTN

[MysteryJen]

Good morning! Another day of a full, online-working house.

• coffee/paper
• clean kitchen- the dishwasher was full last night- we need to get on a better pattern of running it
• recycling out
• figure out some returns
• not sure what else
• leftovers for dinner

Have a great day!

[mom31257]

Good morning! 

Done: slept in, coffee, bible study groups

To Do:

• meals
• school with ds
• tidy house
• laundry
• find something productive to do besides watch stuff online
• Zoom meeting tonight with children's church workers

[TheReader]

Good morning!

We're finally in a routine on all my school stuff, DS's school stuff, etc. With only 2 weeks left (of school, no telling how much longer on the work from home stuff), it's about time, LOL! 

So, today is Weds, which means:
...DS has his science class Zoom meeting in the morning
...DS has Zoom youth group tonight, during which time the other boys & DH will play video games and I will record the audio for my power points
...during that time I also need to put together a slide show of my kids' photos (class kids, not my sons) to send out on Monday
...during that time/today also start working on their poem book to send out

Normal daily chores are:
...laundry -- there's roughly a load to run, so will do that
...lunch -- sandwiches (DH is in charge)
...dinner -- eggs mixed with the leftover meat from last night's dinner, maybe add in some potatoes/the leftover fries
...dishes -- DH has emptied the dishwasher, will load the dirty dishes while we cook

Therefore, today I get to SEW! DS15 asked why I've not yet made him his own personal mask, so will do that (we have enough for everyone here at the house, but he wants a specific color), and then have a bunch of fun sewing to work on. Not sure exactly what. I've not heard my Joann's order is ready yet, so haven't ordered from the quilt shop, etc, but have plenty of things I *can* do. Just need to pick a project. ❤️ 

Happy Weds, everyone!

[SKL]

Happy Wednesday!  Here's hoping it's a productive one!

My daily peeve is my internet.  I feel like I spend half of my life rebooting my internet connection.  Should probably look into getting some more bandwidth or whatever they call it, since we are all going to be using it practically nonstop for the foreseeable future.

Done:

• Went to bed at a reasonable time, yay!
• Slept well, yay!
• Took out the garbage.
• Broke down boxes in the garage to add to the recycle garbage.
• Washed dishes.
• Personal tasks to be ready to interact with humans.
• Cleaned bathroom & bedroom.
• Woke the kids and got them going - personal tasks, breakfast, vitamins, school start.
• Fed the bird.
• Placed 2 Amazon orders.
• Caught up on calendar, news, emails, electronic school stuff, and social media,
• Sent a work email and a work text.  Filed some emails.
• Working on coffee 2.

To do:

• Lots of client work.
• Make the kids submit all school work due today, plus at least one assignment due Friday.
• Pay bills, update credit card info.
• Kid has psych tele meeting at 4pm.
• Yoga, TKD practice, walking.
• A little reading.
• Laundry?
• Keep the house decent.
• Whatever else gets done.

[TheReader]

Typed up the poem stanzas I've received thus far. I have 7 out of a hopeful 16. I'll remind them tomorrow in Show & Tell, and take what I can get in these nutty times. The kids are so hilariously adorable. I've promised them a video read-aloud of our compiled poem, and am planning to illustrate each stanza and make it a little keepsake booklet for them for the end of the year. 

DS is logging on to his science class now. 

I'm going to do the picture compilations for my slide show and then will head up and sew. 

[Selkie]

Good morning!

Done:

• fed dogs, cats, horses, dh
• cleaned a litter box
• did two loads of laundry - had to rewash some things, since a basket of clean clothes got slept on by a cat last night
• texted with the farrier
• took a shower
• made a grocery list

To do:

• office work - bills & finances
• vacuum upstairs - this really needs to happen today. I've been putting it off/forgetting to do it, and it ain't pretty.
• unpack boxes and disinfect things - I'm supposed to get one of my produce boxes today, plus my tofu order and some other grocery items
• see if I need to order more fly spray for the horses - bug season is in full swing again
• declutter kitchen counters & wipe down cabinets
• dinner: veggie burgers 

[TheReader]

Started a load of laundry. 

Trying to convince DH that we really should donate to this All In challenge for food insecurity. Which has nothing (cough, cough, everything, cough, cough) to do with the fact Hugh Jackman & Ryan Reynolds are teaming up/setting aside their feud and will come to the house of one winner/donator for a 2-hr lemonade stand once this is all over/it's safe to do so.  DH is not convinced for some reason. 

Finishing the coffee, and working on the pictures. 

[Selkie]

Cleaned the kitchen

Started dishwasher & scrubbed a few pans by hand

Filled ice trays

Cleaned main floor bath

Vacuumed main floor

Did puppies' cheek swabs

Sent ds21 (and his dog) to drop the mail off

I'm headed out to do horse chores because it looks like rain is on the way.

 

[Jean in Newcastle]

my fasting bloodsugar was the lowest its been in years!

fed Neko and Juliet

showered and dressed

fed myself

medicated myself

placeholder for Juliet's meds

brushed teeth

made bed

logged food and carbs

updated the Fitbit app

[ScoutTN]

@Jean in Newcastle Hooray for good blood sugars!! I am struggling to get mine down another 20-30 points. Bloodwork next week, so maybe my doc wil figure out how? 

Forgot or couldn't find a few things at the grocery, so wrote them on the list for next week.

Mailed a card.

Checked in with kids. Ds is doing hw.

Dd is resting. She has some mild lightheadedness or dizzyness, for the third time in a week. Wondering if I should risk an appt with the pediatrician? They'll call first, but probably want to do blood work. 

Next up:

prep strawberries ✅ 

make soup ✅ 

Edited April 22, 2020 by ScoutTN

[Jean in Newcastle]

Washed, dried and put away dishes, knives and pans.

Did Duolingo

[Selkie]

Did horse chores in the drizzle 

Went out an hour later to call them up from the pasture and it started pouring buckets, so I got drenched

Opened a few packages

Switched & folded laundry

Listened to voicemails

Ate lunch

[TravelingChris]

2 hours ago, Jean in Newcastle said:

my fasting bloodsugar was the lowest its been in years!

fed Neko and Juliet

showered and dressed

fed myself

medicated myself

placeholder for Juliet's meds

brushed teeth

made bed

logged food and carbs

updated the Fitbit app

Fantastic

[TheReader]

Switched laundry to the dryer, brought DH down a collection of dryer lint for his new compost bin/pile/thing in the back yard, and put one last load in the wash (half shirts, half jeans). The family won't know what to do, being all caught up! 

Made the red mask for DS15 who wanted one "of his own" instead of one of the generic masks I'd made for the family. 

Ate lunch, took a nap. 

Goofing off/waking up for a bit, then back up to sew. 

DS19 is equally enthused about donating to the "win a lemonade stand with RR & HJ" fund for food insecurity, so DH said we can donate a small amount. Ha! Yay! 

[TravelingChris]

Yesterday my day turned out differently than I had planned.  We went to pick up my pharmacy meds at the base pharmacy and my dh stopped for gas and the Class6 store there (alcohol sales),  We parked a distance away so I could be in the car and not get over heated but open the window.  An older AA man asked me from a distance if I would like some pepper plants.  I said, I don't eat them but my dh does and how much?   They were free.  So we took the sweet banana peppers and the noheat Jalapenos he had.  I also had bought a basil plant the other day when I was picking up prescription at Publix.  So I had to plant all those plants and that wore me out so we had dinner delivered from a BBQ place and dh colored my hair.  He was a little too enthusiastic about how much to saturate it so it is a little too German red for my taste.  I will be really happy to have my hair stylist blend colors and leave them on properly.  

So far today I have had a online Quarantine Book Club session, a cellphone video call with my new Orthopedist (non surgeon) who will help with movement and pain after rules are relaxed.  it was a great visit and I have a followup on May 20th so hopefully non emergency injections will be allowed by then.  I also baked a baguette, put away two bags of laundry, ordered cooking and sewing supplies I needed on Amazon, read through back newspapers, cooked a tasty lunch- cooked spinach salad with bacon, cranberries, carrots, almonds that comes from a Publix kit, and leftover BBQ.  

To Do

• Get JoAnn order
• Deliver plants and mail to ds and dd2
• make tasty dinner
• decide if on phone call with my LT Gov who I don't like and a Rep or watch online or ignore
• decide if I can watch WH briefing which I always like to do since I get so much good info from the professionals that is not relayed in mass media
• decide if dh and I will play Trivia with library group (not this week since we also delivered posters, tshirts, and mail to dd1 and dinner took longer)
• watch Tabula Rosa

Edited April 23, 2020 by TravelingChris

[Selkie]

Vacuumed upstairs

Emptied garbage cans

Sorted mail

[TravelingChris]

We also delivered mail and posters, rubbermaid box of dd1's tshirts that were accidentally given to dd2 a few days ago and also sewing machine parts and box she had left here and flea and tick medicine she had also left here all to dd1.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Finished going through another file box - culling and shredding.

Leftovers for dinner.

[ScoutTN]

Gave some soup to a neighbor and visited a bit, from a safe distance. She just lost her mom (not CV) and is sad. 
Helped ds with some Scout stuff.
Talked to my mom.

Didn't get time for a walk today and now it's raining. Bah! 
 

Next up:
Tidy the kitchen ✅ 
Check math? Tomorrow!
Read
 

 

Edited April 23, 2020 by ScoutTN

[math teacher]

Ok-late posting. Hope everyone had a great day. 

I have:

did a grocery pick-up and took Mil's groceries to her

went to the school to pick up papers to grade

finished progress reports-woohoo

went with dh for his labwork and picked up a prescription

called and tried to pay a bill-will have to call daily and be the squeaky wheel

dinner-apple pancakes and bacon-so good

tutored a student over the phone

cleaned the kitchen

Now I'm relaxing until time for online church

[TheReader]

Apple pancakes sounds yummy!!!

Okay, I have:
...added the audio to all of the power points
...compiled the photos I have of students into a slide show
...emailed a few people about things
...moved laundry from dryer to a basket, to fold
...moved laundry from washer to dryer, probably ready to be taken out and added to the "to fold" basket
...helped DH and the boys finish the picnic table all the way
...took pics of the garden progress
...come up with a plan for the next quilt project
...DH & DS19 went for their driving lesson, DS15 had youth group online
...DH is now cooking dinner, we shall eat, hang out, fold laundry, etc. 

'night, y'all! 

[Jean in Newcastle]

The rain let up after dinner so I was able to get in a walk before evening online church.