Who's going to tackle Tuesday with me?

[Jean in Newcastle]

take another load to the homeschool consignment shop

what should we have for dinner tonight?  Salmon? 

[ScoutTN]

Rats! No cream for my coffee. Might need to zip out quickly. Made tea instead of coffee.

After coffee and some bacon, I will attempt to get to these things: 

• laundry ✅ 
• AHG things ✅ 
• Figure out the Grandpad 
• Walk! 
• CSA box ✅ 
• Dinner is pork chops and veggies from the box. Nope, dinner is whatever you can find in the fridge! Plenty of leftovers!

 

Edited August 11, 2020 by ScoutTN

[SKL]

Howdy!  Happy Tuesday!  Today will be kinda busy, hopefully in a good way.

Done:

• Woke kid 2 for horse riding.
• Caught up on emails, calendar, news, emails, social media.
• Communicated with soccer coach.
• Working on coffee 1.

To do:

• Kid2 to horse riding.
• Yoga.
• Lots of client work.
• Kid2 home.
• Make kids practice music.
• Bills, donations.
• A little reading.
• Kids have music lesson at 4pm.
• Might do an exchange / buy a new soccer ball for kid1.
• Kid1 has soccer at 6pm.
• Dinner - should probably be leftovers.  We'll see.
• Watch online church with the kids.
• Walk.
• Process at least a chunk of my email inboxes.
• Whatever else gets done.

[mom31257]

Good morning!

The usuals are done including breakfast for ds and me, too.

• lunch and dinner 
• school with ds
• ds gets picked up for 2 hours behind the wheel driving with his driving class
• ds to guitar lesson
• tidy house
• prep for math classes tomorrow
• Poldark (start looking for next series to watch)

[Selkie]

Good morning!

• get all my routine things done before noon (laundry, clean kitchen, wash cat bowls, clean litter boxes, scoop yard, do horse chores, and prep for dinner) - trying this out in an attempt to have more productive afternoons
• office work - spend most of the afternoon on this
• make sure I have cash for tomorrow's farrier appt.
• post office & pick up a couple things in town - maybe the bank
• dinner: veggie BLTs, oven fries, slaw

[TheReader]

Good morning! Off to a slow start this morning. 

My list today:
...coffee
...laundry
....meal plan, grocery shop
...school stuff
....lunch (sandwiches)
....dinner (TBD)
....maybe some sewing time -- I'm *this close* to getting the backing made for my most recent quilt; I'd like to get that finished up
...TV after dinner.....? Or the guys may video game; they are chasing various daily challenges on one of their games right now
....Oh! Don't forget to go to the drive thru "educator appreciation" parade at the church we've been "attending" online this evening
....anything else I manage to do

Edited August 12, 2020 by TheReader

[TravelingChris]

Good morning!

Look up which medications I forgot to take last evening or night I should take this morning

Go to Publix (done)

 

Order shoes, underwear, etc

Go to get my second EMG-not looking forward to it since first was painful  (done)

do Instacart order for Fresh Market or do a whole foods order or order dinner

plan, plan, plan car repairs and trip - yesterday we found out that the check engine had nothing to do with engine but we have a leak in our axle and our waiting for that part.  But we still have a blower issue and need to make appointment.  (Made appt)

Edited August 11, 2020 by TravelingChris

[mom31257]

Will you guys pray for dh and us for protection from the virus as well as all those at his school?

He teaches in a rural county with lots of areas people can't get internet. His school starts in person classes tomorrow with the option for virtual. He has 90 students enrolled in his classes this semester, and only 12 are doing virtual. He will have 29 in person students in one class. He has created a bit of a teaching bubble for himself to distance from the students, but it is probably useless. 

The school only has one sub willing to work for the whole school, so dh thinks they could go virtual at anytime for lack of teachers if many get sick and are out. 

A local school system lost so many bus drivers but wants in person, so they have shortened the school day for all the younger grades and have staggered times to come in and go home. 

It's just a mess. 

[TheReader]

Praying, Amy. (((hugs)))

[SKL]

Amy, prayers that your family stays healthy and your husband's job stays stable.

[SKL]

• Kid2 dropped off at horse riding.
• Partially cleaned my car.
• Some kitchen cleaning.
• Did my yoga.
• A little reading.
• Partially cleared the back patio.
• Processed a load of clothes from the dryer.

Edited August 11, 2020 by SKL

[TheReader]

Made the grade recording sheets (some of the parents want this) (and I can use the same template to keep track of DS15's grades now that he is high school and this year goes on his transcript....)

Printed the master lesson plan sheets, and discovered/realized, I never actually put the 2nd grade language arts in the computer??? I thought I had but....?? Need to track that down. Drat. 

Emailed a fellow co-op teacher about face shields. I keep waffling on buying a different kind for myself; a friend posted a photo of a very kid-friendly design, easier on, and so  much taller/longer (but flares out more at the bottom). I'm debating. I already spent $30 on a 2-pack (plus shipping), and I do like mine.......but taller/longer/better coverage seems like such a good idea. :sigh: 

Meal planning, grocery shopping, and working on the weekly break-down lesson plans up next. 

[Selkie]

Prayers, Amy. That does sound like a mess.🙁

[TheReader]

made the meal plan and the grocery list, and decided I'd rather my mom on Friday than Thursday, I think, so I have "decompress alone" after already on the schedule. Now waiting on DH to be done with calls so we can grocery shop (will eat a snack/breakfasty thing and work on forms in the meantime)

[SKL]

• Switched out the laundry.
• Made an Amazon order.
• Added cross country practices to the calendar.
• Trying to figure out how to make my computer battery charge.
• Trying to think about prioritizing my work.
• Working on coffee 3.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Fasting bloodsugars - 95!  A new low!  (Which is good thing when it comes to bloodsugars!  Well. .. up to a point. . . )

fed Neko and Juliet.  Neko is locked in his bathroom for "tummy settling time" because yesterday I fed him in the bathroom but forgot to shut the door so he then puked all over the new schoolroom floor.

premedicated

fed myself

medicated myself

medicated Juliet

logged food, water, carbs

updated Sparkpeople sleep log

PT - upper body exercises

dressed

made bed

brushed teeth

[Selkie]

Got done with my morning list with ten minutes to spare. I like this plan and hope I can keep it up.

Touched base with the vet about Thor. After six weeks of tummy troubles, he is now doing so much better. Woo hoo! The key was switching him to a prescription hydrolyzed protein diet. We are going to skip the course of prednisone we had planned on since he is doing so well.

Finalized plans for the car I'm buying - very exciting! Dh's truck is getting towed today.

 

[Jean in Newcastle]

Plan B for the day.  I realized as I packed up more books to take to homeschool consignment that I actually have a bunch of course descriptions to write.  I need the books to help me write the descriptions. 

Wrote out a checklist of the next four descriptions that need to be written.  Starting on the first of those now. 

[TheReader]

Made the meal plan.

Grocery shopped.

Got started on the weekly checklist for K.

Watched a video that DS22's best friend from college made, seeking partners to fund his calling to be a full time minister on his college campus (translation: stay in college town and do outreach, but needs living expenses). Quandry, b/c this is very NOT the type of thing we normally give to, at all. BUT, this kid is probably solely responsible for the fact our DS wasn't even worse than he was last year, and we really like him. And he actually really has been/really will minister on campus. So, we'll see. We may give a one time gift. 

DH has a conference call, so no nap, so getting back to work. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

First course description done.  I think that my immediate goal is one more description for today. 

Also while looking for some additional texts to add to the description, I went through another shelf of stuff. 

[TheReader]

Got through Week Eleven on my K weekly sheet; this is good progress, but now I am s.l.e.e.p.y. so heading for a nap even though DH has to stay up

Wanted to post my progress first 😉 

[Jean in Newcastle]

Second course description done

made arrangement to sell some books to a friend

[Selkie]

Done with office work

My two last loads of laundry are in the washer and dryer

Swept and mopped my office and the kitchen

Swept the basement

Cleaned the litter boxes again

Swatted flies

Opened a couple packages

Am roasting some squash to go with dinner now

[TravelingChris]

EMG was super painful this time but got it done.  Also did a little CVS trip (Milk Duds were 3 for 3 dollars and when I got there I found that Lindt 70% dark chocolate was also on sale but the great thing is I scored a large Dawn detergent-- that one has been flying off the shelves here and we normally by a very large and just refill.  Also got us a lunch from a German restaurant so no big dinner tonight- just what we would normally have for dinner.

Made diagnostic sort of appt for my car- I drop it off tomorrow and they fit it in either tomorrow or Thursday.

Rescued green tree frog from my house

Filled my weekly medicine pill organizer

Still to do

replant plants

order shoes

order underwear

order trial car waste system

start watching seasons 3-5 of Endeavor with dh

laundry

[TheReader]

Finished through week 12 of K plans; realized that's the spot at which we stop for online for Thanksgiving break, so stopping there

Am done through Week 10 of 1st grade plans, but time to leave to go to the teacher appreciation thing

As I have "weekly sheets" down tomorrow also, and nothing to do tomorrow but that, this leaves me in good shape actually, so I feel ok stopping there for now. 

Heading to the appreciation thing, then home, dinner, TV, maybe sew. 

[Jean in Newcastle]

folded and put away one load of laundry

went to the grocery store for a quick shop

am heating up the grill in preparation for grilling tonight's supper

[TheReader]

All you people showing off and actually doing the laundry 😉 

I did finish through week 12 on the 1st grade list. 

Handled a phone call from a neighbor seeking advice on something. 

Went to the drive-thru appreciation event -- y'all. We are feeling more and more like switching over to this church once we return in person one day. They had cheer leaders from various local schools out, in socially distanced groups, cheering on the teachers/educators driving through. Regular folks, with pom poms and "#1" foam fingers. Cheering. Waving. Flags. Banners. On both sides of the big wide drive way. (all wearing masks, and socially distanced)

Then, a goody bag handed in through the car window. Y'all. A handwritten note. A journal. A mask that says "Essential - Teacher" on it in a cute script/circle. An invite to an educator's only themed online small group starting up in September. I can't even, y'all. The notes were all generic, and I don't know if they wrote the same thing in each one or different things, but one line made me cry: thank you for all of the time you spend preparing for your classroom (or something along those lines). I am so glad they let me come. ❤️ 

Got home, had an order arrive from Amazon....only, it's only part of the order. Which is maybe fine, depending. So emailed/contacted the seller to find out. Sigh. Hopefully the other books are on the way separately or something. I really don't want to track them down elsewhere.  

Going to cook dinner, feed the people, and then hang out with the family. Probably I will get to laundry tomorrow. 

[TravelingChris]

We also had to get a black racer snake out of our garage.

Did order underwear but the company I am trying to order shoes from have not replied to my email and I just noticed their customer service is only from 7am to 2pm in my time (8-3ET)  so need to call tomorrow morning and get their size info so I can place my order.  

Also ordered the travel bathroom things we need.

Ate the light dinner. 

Trying not to fall asleep.

 

 

 

[TheReader]

Had dinner, it was good

Cleaned up my "office" side of the dining table

Looking like a TV or "everyone on their own" night for after dinner

[ScoutTN]

Quick grocery run.

Took an extra watermelon from our box to a friend. We get more than we can eat sometimes!

Did a quick, outdoor, back-to-school event for Dd's tutorial. Read through her American Lit syllabus. 

Snack

Next up: a podcast