I haven't posted for a week. It's just been a very busy week. School, helping people move, garden, baby coming home. It's just been crazy busy. School is going fine. A lot of wasted teaching time the first week with schedule changes, assemblies, rule reading, testing, and to top it off the bells and intercom system didn't work... at all... all week. And the A/C sprung a leak in the ceiling right by my door so between 2-3pm every day the dripping would start and my trash can would become the bucket. Worked the first two weeks without a contract. They're just swamped with getting all of them approved by the micromanaging state as well. More paperwork. More little "housekeeping" things to learn in a new school. Overall though, things have been going fine at school and my body has adjusted to getting up early in the morning to be on the road by 6:30.
Baby Abbi has been a good baby since she finally got home. She sleeps a lot and doesn't wake up nearly as much as her sister Maddi did. Anne has been struggling with getting better, so it's good that Abbi is such a good baby. Anne's mom has been here for two weeks and what a blessing to have her here to help so much. She went home yesterday. She is a wonderful, caring lady and it's too bad they don't live closer. She had lots of Grandma time with Maddi and mom time with her daughter. She also enjoyed lots of our corn and tomatoes and cucumbers. She helped Anne freeze corn and I got to taste some of her yummy zuchinni bread.
The garden at the auntie's continues to be a blessing. They look forward to our little visits and the produce has been shared with so many families (including those who live by the auntie's). We shared with the physical therapist that visits them, the mail lady, neighbors, and random people walking the street when we are their gleaning or weeding or watering. One family came and got the leaves on the corn stalks to do tamales. It feels good to share the harvest. I can tell Greg loves the "farming" feeling he gets from it. He misses farming. He loves his job though and I can tell he enjoyed supervising the first home football game. They have a QB that is ranked one of the top in the U.S.
Another blessing in our life has been the time we have been spending with our daughter and her sons. Mandy and I took Rellie to see Kung Fu Panda II at the cheap theater. Mandy about killed me driving home (crazy driver!) but we all survived (j/k) love you banana. Chubby (Kayson) is my new weight lifting program, but my back has been bothering me, so Papa has been holding him a lot more. We took them to the zoo today and Maddi Anne came with us as well. The zoo just never gets old. The kids loved it and the weather was nice. Taking them to church Sunday was entertaining as well. Kayson "owned" papa on the pew several times. He's not used to wrestling children so much anymore. By third block he was back with mom and papa had retreated to the old man's class. Rellie doesn't understand why he can't just jump up and stand by grandma during primary sharing time and he is definitely A.D.D. but he fits right in with that class. Those ladies have their hands full. Bless them!
Mandy and I also went to the Thursday night auction for a girls night out and came home with a pickup load. I don't think we'll be allowed to go next week. Maybe just a movie at the cheap theater. :D Thank you sweetie for watching the boys. We did get some awesome deals though. Found a few good things yard-saling Saturday, but not as good as normal. The office chair for Stacy for 5 bucks was probably the best deal. It was nice.
My brother is coming home from Iraq. He is on the plane somewhere. We don't know where. We just get bits and pieces and limited info. Normal for the military. We will know as soon as he hits ground in the U.S. which should be any day this week we believe. It'll be a couple weeks debriefing, then he'll be home. We miss him so much. Poor Jackie is beside herself. I remember that year without the hubby. LONG! And I got to see him most weekends. Can't imagine not even seeing him on the weekend. Oh and BSU won their first game! Go Big Blue!
Today we got bedrooms reorganized and so much stuff sorted. We still have more to do and I'm afraid I won't get my jam done before my berries spoil. So much to do. Cupcakes for student birthdays (to make in the morning) and flowers to pick for bookmarks (poetry unit project). I'm glad it's a short work week. Didn't have enough time to labor this labor day!
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