Tackling Friday Together

[ScoutTN]

Happy Friday, y’all. I hope to have a quiet day mostly at home.

 

• Budget and bills
• Clean a bathroom
• Do some tidying in kids’ rooms. ✔️ 
• TY note and sweet treat for the troop Ds camped with this week. ✔️ 
• Figure out dinner. Just me and Ds tonight.   Pizza for him, salad for me. 
• Pick up Ds from Scout camp. Do his laundry! ✔️ 

Edited July 2, 2021 by ScoutTN

[mom31257]

Good morning! 

We go to my MIL's in Ohio today. 

• email latest bank statements to mortgage company we are working with for the new house
• breakfast here, lunch on the road?, dinner probably out (we eat out a lot when we are at her house)
• pack up everything here
• go to a UPS store in Lexington to drop off our cable/internet boxes we had forgotten about. 
• drive on to Ohio
• make a list with MIL for people to invite to a birthday party
• hopefully see niece and her family today or at latest tomorrow
• laundry

Edited July 2, 2021 by mom31257

[ScoutTN]

@mom31257 Safe travels, Amy! 
 

[ScoutTN]

Rats!!! Forgot to meet a friend to go walking early this morning. My brain has strong seive-like characteristics these days…

Ordered a book from Amazon and worked on my reading list. 

Made coffee and had the last piece of zucchini bread for b’fast. Definitely a no-no with gluten and sugar in it, but I have been very good all week and can get away with one small cheat early in the day. 
 

 

[TheReader]

Yes, safe travels, Amy! 

 

My day today: 
...coffee
...kids to D&D at someone else's house 
...home, work on decluttering the next bit of stuff in the bookshelf declutter
...maybe hang out some with oldest, who doesn't D&D with the other 2
...figure out something for dinner.....????
....guys will probably video game tonight, which leaves me to sew &/or watch TV
...(oh, pick up guys from D&D)(before dinner)
...email the tutor mom who was going to zelle me, but hasn't
....laundry? 
...whatever I'm forgetting 

[BlsdMama]

Send emails to set up park dates for July and August. 
Teach DD14 how to stain wood. 
Tackle four cupboards in the kitchen for decluttering with DD17, DD14, DD12, and DD11.
Hang picture (DD12)

Scrub shower curtain where paint got on it... hoping not to order a new one. 
 

Barton x 4

Coffee

Bible

Shower

 come up with a plan for DS16 who isn’t working today....

Email guy about pallets and lady about mirror. 

[math teacher]

Good morning everyone!! I've had a sluggish few days-hopefully today will be better. The plan:

More coffee-done

Breakfast-done

Clean the floors

Clean the bathrooms-done

Cook 3 meals-one down, two to go

Work outside-done

Work in my bedroom

Laundry-done

Checkbook statement-done

Call my parents-done

Work on Google Drive-done

 

Edited July 2, 2021 by math teacher
update

[TheReader]

Laundry is started

Plan made for dinner (dh will do chx fajitas on the grill), meat out to thaw

Have woken up the kids (2x, heading up for 3rd time for the one kid) and we leave in 15 mins for their D&D get-together

Decided will wait till afternoon/evening to email the mom about Zelle, in case she sends it today

[mom31257]

@ScoutTN, I’m sorry you forgot! 

We are on the road and have already dropped of the boxes at the UPS store. 

It looks like there are a couple traffic delays going into Cincinnati, but we can find a way around if they get worse. 

[TheReader]

Home from dropping the kids off -- going to swap laundry and take a nap (woke up migrainey, took meds, it's improving, but hopefully the nap will take care of it for good for the day)

[ScoutTN]

Did an errand for mom, across town.

Stopped by the pool to pick up a swim team t-shirt for Ds and chat with coaches.

Lunching on leftovers and miscellaneous things from the fridge.

Paid a bill.

[SKL]

Howdie, happy Friday!

I was up late last night winding down from a domestic fuss.  😕

I set my alarms, got up, woke my kids, and the next thing I knew it was 2 minutes before band camp start.  So we were late.  Oh well.  It was an optional practice anyway.  Read the kids the riot act on the way to the camp.

Had a hopefully productive conversation with one of the adults in the house.  Trying to remember that this is more about cultural and personality differences than anything else.

Picked up the kids, grabbed drive-thru lunch, and drove them to the park, where Kid1 was supposed to meet the soccer coach to try out new fitness equipment.  However, Kid1 refused to get out of the car.  Apparently she didn't have enough prior warning, had a stomach ache, had the wrong shoes, didn't see any of her teammates there, etc. etc.  I went myself to talk to the coach, thinking that would embarrass her enough that she'd get out and go, but nope.  It turned out she really needed to be in cleats to do what he wanted, and we didn't have the cleats with me.  Coach was very nice about it and said nice things about my kid.  I promised to try to have kid check out the equipment over the weekend and give feedback.

Listened some more to the audiobook.

Kids have promised to take the pup to the park and then supervise him in the house for at least a half hour.

Back home, I have done a tiny bit of client work.

To do:

• Monitor and nag the kids.  No more Ms. Nice Mom.  June is over and I'm caught up on my sleep.
• Print out math work for them to do later this afternoon.
• More client work.
• Pay bills.
• Laundry - especially the kids' summer band uniform, as they have a parade tomorrow morning.
• Exercise, I hope.  Shower.
• Dinner out, probably.
• Evening pup duty.
• Whatever else gets done.

[BlsdMama]

3 hours ago, mom31257 said:

@ScoutTN, I’m sorry you forgot! 

We are on the road and have already dropped of the boxes at the UPS store. 

It looks like there are a couple traffic delays going into Cincinnati, but we can find a way around if they get worse. 

Amy, do you have the WAYZ app?? Life changing. 

[BlsdMama]

“Find something for DS” turned into: Teach him how to cut inside corners for trim...

 Other than that I got coffee done, lol. 
We got my dresser back in my bedroom! 🎉 

Messaged mirror lady and found pallets. 
 

Now to do the other things. 

[SKL]

The kids are off to the park with the pup.  So far so good.

I'm gonna see about sneaking a nap.

[ScoutTN]

Quick trip to Publix, but they had no tart cherries. Unloaded groceries.

Did some tidying up and some electronic chores. Running a scan to see if Windows can fix the not-working start button.

Wrote a TY note to the troop with which Ds camped this week and attached it to some Oreos. 

Snack - peach. Yumm.

Leaving to get Ds in about an hour. Several small tidying/cleaning tasks between now and then.
 

 

[TheReader]

Up from my nap; less tired, still headachy. :sigh: 

Tried to watch a show on Hulu while I fold laundry (not yet folded b/c of what followed), found no Hulu, messaged Sprint/T-Mobile to find out why, long frustrating chat with the "real person" chat-feature not productive, so gave up and decluttered drawers instead. 

Three of four drawers done -- one of the 3 is stuff I need to either donate/sell/give away; one of the 3 is playdough & supplies which I need a better portable container for; one of the 3 is all of the classroom extras (crayons, markers, erasers, pencils, etc.) which I need to go through and load into supply containers/bags/whatever for this coming year. 

The 4th drawer is "craft junk" which will be a big job and needs likely lots of mini containers for sorting, etc. Will start with ziptop baggies (this weekend??) and proceed from there. Not today. 

Think I will find something else to watch on TV, not the Hulu show, and fold the now 2 loads waiting. Leave in an hour to pick up the kids. 

[mom31257]

3 hours ago, BlsdMama said:

Amy, do you have the WAYZ app?? Life changing. 

Thanks, Kelly. I do not have it. I have an iPhone, and I've always used the map app that comes with it. I could check into that, too. 

 

[TheReader]

picked up kids

still need to fold laundry -- dh and I are both feeling allergy-ish/migrainey (the agriculture field by us which used to alternate cotton & corn each year, then stuck to cotton for a few years in a row, which bugs dh's allergies but not mine, is doing sorghum this year, which apparently bugs both of us....)

I think dh is cooking the fajitas, if being outside doesn't bug him too much; coming up with a back-up plan just in case

[ScoutTN]

My boy is home and clean. His stinky laundry is running and camp stuff sorted. 

I am so glad he finished the week! Scout camp is a lot of work and responsibility. It’s tiring! He earned two merit badges, about 3/4 of another one, and completed the mile swim in the lake. He made friends from other troops, learned his way around a part of camp that he was not familiar with, and learned how to be a provisional camper with a troop other than his own. I am proud of him.

He’s off to visit with a neighbor friend and share his adventures. 

I expect he’ll watch tv and go to bed early tonight! 

[TheReader]

25 minutes ago, ScoutTN said:

My boy is home and clean. His stinky laundry is running and camp stuff sorted. 

I am so glad he finished the week! Scout camp is a lot of work and responsibility. It’s tiring! He earned two merit badges, about 3/4 of another one, and completed the mile swim in the lake. He made friends from other troops, learned his way around a part of camp that he was not familiar with, and learned how to be a provisional camper with a troop other than his own. I am proud of him.

He’s off to visit with a neighbor friend and share his adventures. 

I expect he’ll watch tv and go to bed early tonight! 

this is so encouraging! So proud of him! 

[TheReader]

Dinner is plan b after all, dh is zonked out on the couch - allergies (seasonal? pollen/sinus stuff?) have been kicking his butt lately, worse than normal. (a gradual worsening the last couple of years). I'm glad he's resting, so instead I made panzenella (sp??) with added ground chicken. 

We will eat and then.....??? 

Wishing everyone a happy weekend! 

[TheReader]

Oh - folded & put away all the laundry!