Tackling Monday Together

[ScoutTN]

Good morning! Lovely and cool here this early, 66. Nice after last week’s heat. Rain over the weekend helped lots on air quality too.

My list:

Tutor four students  done ✅ and log sessions.

Check in with my kids doing end of summer school work. ✅ 

AHG things. Board vote on budget, ✅ Night Ops prep, girl registration stuff. ✅ 

Walk?!

Dinner is chx stir fry. ✅ 

Need a birthday gift for a friend. 

Edited August 3, 2021 by ScoutTN

[Harriet Vane]

My schedule blew up due to covid cancellations from others. The day is free and there is plenty to do:

—Donation run

—Take a walk.

—Write for work project.

—Keep organizing and decluttering. Step by step, inch by inch.

[TheReader]

Good morning!

Today I have:

....coffee
...order story books I need for school -- DONE
....go buy a cookie tray (somehow missing one)
....label the last place mat (one more registration coming in), tape down the labels
....go through my linking cubes & play blocks and sort/repackage into 12 packs instead of 10
....make the school/home folders for the registrations that have come in since I did that
....investigate where to get a hair cut -- call around, see who is doing what covid precautions
....go with DH to buy jeans?? 
....lunch.....? 
....dinner.....? 
....investigate eMeals &/or similar, see about doing a free trial
....sew stuff....??
....whatever I'm forgetting

Edited August 2, 2021 by TheReader

[SKL]

Howdie!  Busy morning today!

Done:

• Online church and form signing in the wee hours.
• Slept a few hours.
• Kid1 to 7:15am soccer practice.
• Pup to the vet for his neuter surgery, microchip, etc.
• Picked up the 2019-20 yearbooks that my kids' K-8 school finally received.
• Kid1 back home.
• Write check & assemble forms for marching band.
• Both kids to marching band camp.  Remembered instruments, forms, & lunch money.  😛
• A load of laundry, some house and car cleaning.
• Caught up on news, emails, calendar, and social media.

To do:

• Lots of client work.
• Pick up kids about 3:30.
• Get ready for the maids, who are expected to arrive at 4:something.
• Pick up pup around 4:30 unless they change the time.
• Post-surgery care for pup.  I should probably do some reasearch in case the vet folks don't communicate well.  (I just got a call from them about someone's girl dog named Lola ... and I've seen them mix things up before, so I am a bit wary.)
• Kid1 evening soccer practice.  It's tryouts week, I think, so they have both morning and evening practices most days this week.
• Try to get some math / other work done with the kids after pup's bedtime.
• Probably another load of laundry.
• Whatever else gets done.

Edited August 2, 2021 by SKL

[TheReader]

Just started a 14 day free trial to emeals, which integrates its shopping list capability right to your selected grocery store shopping/curbside (another thing I've never done). Got that all set up, have 12 meals picked, ingredients sent to the store, my grocery pick-up will be ready in the morning (could have selected today, but we have fencing tonight, and I'll be out that way tomorrow, so went with that). 

This could turn out to be amazing. There is a LOT more flexibility than I ever imagined. Plus they suggest mixed drinks, which seems awfully fun. And desserts. Occassions. You can add breakfast/lunch if you want. 

We'll see how it goes. 

[mom31257]

Good afternoon! 

We had such a great time in Chicago and Wheaton! We walked 11 miles between the two days. We walked to Naperville on a nice bike path, then ate lunch and saw Jungle Cruise. 

This morning we had a delay in leaving because we had a nail in a tire. 

I contacted the co-op teachers of the student I’m overseeing all of his schoolwork this year. I want to be included in their communication. 

If I can keep a good signal, I may try to call the power company about set up. 

We are on the way to my sister’s in KY. 

 

 

[TheReader]

Sounds like a fun day, Amy! 

I called around to hair places, and the guy I went to before has the best Covid protocols in place, and he did a good job (DH said: why are you even looking at other places?) so I have an appointment for tomorrow. I am in desperate need....I've had one trim since Covid (by my sister when she was here, last October) and my hair is at my waist. Way too unmanageable a length for school. 

[BlsdMama]

Fake coffee ✅ 

 Five hours of driving practice ✅ 

Target ✅

Lunch ✅ 

Reading/Barton with youngest 4

Take DD to work (1 hour of driving with 14yo)

Supper - baked potato bar and salad

Be lazy - that’s a lot of driving but we want 18yo to get familiar with campus and 14yo needs 23 more hours of driving for a school permit. 🤷🏼‍♀️ 

 

[BlsdMama]

2 hours ago, TheReader said:

Just started a 14 day free trial to emeals, which integrates its shopping list capability right to your selected grocery store shopping/curbside (another thing I've never done). Got that all set up, have 12 meals picked, ingredients sent to the store, my grocery pick-up will be ready in the morning (could have selected today, but we have fencing tonight, and I'll be out that way tomorrow, so went with that). 

This could turn out to be amazing. There is a LOT more flexibility than I ever imagined. Plus they suggest mixed drinks, which seems awfully fun. And desserts. Occassions. You can add breakfast/lunch if you want. 

We'll see how it goes. 

Would love to hear how you like it!

WHEN will Costco get with the program and do curbside?!

 

 

[mom31257]

I was able to request the power setup online. It was super easy, so we’ll see what is next in the request process. 

The tire plug is holding well. 

We’re about 2 hours from my sister’s. 

[TheReader]

58 minutes ago, BlsdMama said:

Would love to hear how you like it!

WHEN will Costco get with the program and do curbside?!

 

 

I will definitely update! so far what I like best is the flexibility -- it allows you access to "this week's plan" under whatever category you picked, *but also* to "last week's plan" *but also* to browse through all the other categories of meals, too. So, I could go into the plans for "clean eating" but also "slow cooker" and "meditteranean" and "30 minute meals" and "good & healthy" and whatever else they call their many categories. And then it just lets you keep clicking, so this week I picked 12 meals, LOL!  (oops)

Then it self-generates the grocery list, and you go through and click things you already have/don't need. The only wonkiness there is it will have things like "1/2 package of ricotta cheese (15 oz)" so it *means* "8 oz of ricotta" but puts it on the list as a 15 oz container. BUT, then you pick what grocery store you want to send it to (or via instacart or shipd, if those are in your area, but not your preferred store), and THEN you edit that list/pick the specific things (at least with HEB, it let me go one by one through the list, picking exactly what item I wanted, so that was where I edited things like the ricotta). 

We'll see how it goes. I think it may take some learning curve on my end to figure out exactly the best way to do the grocery part, but I'm pretty excited for it. 

 

[TheReader]

Taped down the name tags, minus 2, because I'm waiting on finding out if one kid is a boy or girl (for seating assignments), and also waiting on one more kid who is supposed to register, but hasn't (so color place mat will matter depending on those 2 things). 

Sorted/repacked the lacing cards and the play blocks. 

Sorting out now the play # blocks (I don't know what they are called, but they came in cute little tubes from Target one year and look like that, #, and they are amazing).  Taking a break from sitting on the floor, getting a snack, then back to it. 

[TheReader]

Sorted the play blocks; I now have 12 packs instead of 10. yay! 

Dinner is about done, time to eat, go to fencing, come home. We're back to masking there even w/the vaccine (their guideline; I'm so glad!), so this should be interesting. First time we've fenced "double masked" (ie, the Covid mask and the fencing mask). 

Smoothies after, then veg out at home. 

[ScoutTN]

Dinner was good.

Dd is making zucchini bread.

Ds is being a huge pain. SO looking forward to school starting. I love my boy, but he is exhausting. We all do better when he’s out of the house for most of the day.

Headed to the grocery. It’s late, but we need b’fast food and I can grocery shop when tited better than I can do computer work. 

[BlsdMama]

My kiddo who can be... wearying is gone for nine more days. It’s so chill at our house. 
 

DD and DSinlaw came over for a couple hours with the kids. Sat out on the patio. Quick dinner. Picking up DD from work and then BED! I’m wore out today and not sure why!

[ScoutTN]

Groceries put away, laundry moved, table reset, clothes out for tomorrow, a few more AHG things done. 
 

Next up: Keto ice cream bar and a podcast
 

 

Edited August 3, 2021 by ScoutTN