M, Pop, and Uncle Dad went Mining! This was an all day activity. I had 7 tell me all about the day, and I just wrote everything he said. Here's his story.
Let's hope I remember to add his story when I have time to type it here.
10.26.2008
10.23.2008
Still here...
...just sooooo busy.
Some of it it great fun.
Fishing at the lake with a Parks & Rec instructor. It was a fieldtrip with our co-op. Park days. Treeclimbers. M camping with the guys from church. Visiting the "Liberty Bell". (We were studying Pennsylvania.)
Some of it is required.
School. Work. Cleaning the house. Laundry. Repeat.
Some of it is knitting.
When I get to playing catch-up, I'll tell you how sweet Allison is. For now, I'll say that I'm addicted to the Bee Stitch Washcloth. I'm on my 3rd one. Somehow, that's all the counting that my brain is able to do at the end of the day. Yet knitting in the stitch below makes it all more exciting.
So, for now...aDayInTheLife of almost 7, 5, & 3 looks like this.
Wake up way to early. Coffee for me. Breakfast the little ones. Start school. (Today I'm late with the 'Start School' because the coffee just isn't kicking in...and I wanted to type this.) Try to juggle, I mean try to teach each child math at their own level while keeping the others from making too big of a mess. Lunch for us. Reading. Art/Play outside. Make dinner so it's ready when everyone is ready to eat. My mom comes at 4pm. I leave at 4:30. M isn't home until 6:30. Work until 11pm. Come home exhausted, but not ready to fall asleep. Bed by midnight. Repeat. (I usually only work 2 nights a week, but the other nights are just more crammed with finishing things up around the house and making preparations so that on the days I do work things run smoothly.)
I want to make a list of things I learned from unemployment. I also want to make a list of things I've taken for granted when I was a retired-architect/SAHM. I've also been working on a thankful list...maybe that will be ready by Thanksgiving.
Some of it it great fun.
Fishing at the lake with a Parks & Rec instructor. It was a fieldtrip with our co-op. Park days. Treeclimbers. M camping with the guys from church. Visiting the "Liberty Bell". (We were studying Pennsylvania.)
Some of it is required.
School. Work. Cleaning the house. Laundry. Repeat.
Some of it is knitting.
When I get to playing catch-up, I'll tell you how sweet Allison is. For now, I'll say that I'm addicted to the Bee Stitch Washcloth. I'm on my 3rd one. Somehow, that's all the counting that my brain is able to do at the end of the day. Yet knitting in the stitch below makes it all more exciting.
So, for now...aDayInTheLife of almost 7, 5, & 3 looks like this.
Wake up way to early. Coffee for me. Breakfast the little ones. Start school. (Today I'm late with the 'Start School' because the coffee just isn't kicking in...and I wanted to type this.) Try to juggle, I mean try to teach each child math at their own level while keeping the others from making too big of a mess. Lunch for us. Reading. Art/Play outside. Make dinner so it's ready when everyone is ready to eat. My mom comes at 4pm. I leave at 4:30. M isn't home until 6:30. Work until 11pm. Come home exhausted, but not ready to fall asleep. Bed by midnight. Repeat. (I usually only work 2 nights a week, but the other nights are just more crammed with finishing things up around the house and making preparations so that on the days I do work things run smoothly.)
I want to make a list of things I learned from unemployment. I also want to make a list of things I've taken for granted when I was a retired-architect/SAHM. I've also been working on a thankful list...maybe that will be ready by Thanksgiving.
10.11.2008
Shorter Days and BIG NEWS
It always happens this time of year. With the sun setting earlier each day, the kids want dinner earlier. (But why don't they want to go to bed earlier?!) I get less done in spite of my growing "TO-DO" list. I'll write a catch up post soon. But for now...
Thursday (the 9th) was my anniversary. The boys went with Nana for the weekend, and Friday 3 went to spend the night with Grandma and Pop-pop. What did I do? Go to bed at 2pm. I was feeling a sore throat coming on, and before 3 even left so that Mom and Dad could go out to dinner, I was out. This morning, I feel that the sleep was totally needed. I did get up at 7pm and had a cup of tea, but then I slept right through to 8am.
I work today and tomorrow. That leaves precious little time for pulling pages for next week's school, writing a meal plan and grocery list, shopping for groceries, and cleaning up the house, and doing laundry. I will still make it to church, but where did my Sabbath day go? I really want to achieve a 'day of rest' and it seems the harder I try the more unattainable it is.
So, someday I'll...
download photos to my computer, back them up, order prints, knit, take photos of my knitting, blog about my knitting, blog about school...I'll stop now with the list. It just doesn't make me feel better about my day.
I've been keeping up with devotions and one of those places I visit is Praise & Coffee. Here she wrote about Supermom. Don't you know I just love that topic?! Read her article if you don't know why I "LOVE" being a Supermom. Really, I don't want to be one, but the minimal level of clean that I was ok with has now given way to "Please, step over the piles!" I'm spreading myself too thin. My husband and children NEED to step up and do more around the house if I'm going to work outside the home.
And for the BIG NEWS before I go iron my blouse for work...M starts a new job on Monday. After a week with second interviews he was left with multiple offers to choose from. Ultimately, he chose the every other Friday off job. I think it will be a good fit for our family. But, I will need to continue to work until we're back up on our feet. (It's been 10 weeks with no job) Just the HOPE that comes from knowing there will be a big paycheck before our next mortgage is due is fantastic.
So, the knitting that I'm not photographing, or the knitting that I am photographing but don't have time to post...
I finished my BYOB
I CO for another smaller market bag with the remnants of Cotton-Ease and it's almost done...if I can just remember where I set the pattern.
I'm to the toe decreases on the 2nd Sanity Sock
I've finished 3 more washcloths
I have new yarn to photograph
I think I'll leave it at that. If I normally comment at your blog, but I haven't been around...there just isn't enough hours right now. I miss the time to email.
And Tammy, my only 'spelling errors' here are th in 9th, ok, and nd in 2nd! I do know what you mean about zero missed spellings.
Thursday (the 9th) was my anniversary. The boys went with Nana for the weekend, and Friday 3 went to spend the night with Grandma and Pop-pop. What did I do? Go to bed at 2pm. I was feeling a sore throat coming on, and before 3 even left so that Mom and Dad could go out to dinner, I was out. This morning, I feel that the sleep was totally needed. I did get up at 7pm and had a cup of tea, but then I slept right through to 8am.
I work today and tomorrow. That leaves precious little time for pulling pages for next week's school, writing a meal plan and grocery list, shopping for groceries, and cleaning up the house, and doing laundry. I will still make it to church, but where did my Sabbath day go? I really want to achieve a 'day of rest' and it seems the harder I try the more unattainable it is.
So, someday I'll...
download photos to my computer, back them up, order prints, knit, take photos of my knitting, blog about my knitting, blog about school...I'll stop now with the list. It just doesn't make me feel better about my day.
I've been keeping up with devotions and one of those places I visit is Praise & Coffee. Here she wrote about Supermom. Don't you know I just love that topic?! Read her article if you don't know why I "LOVE" being a Supermom. Really, I don't want to be one, but the minimal level of clean that I was ok with has now given way to "Please, step over the piles!" I'm spreading myself too thin. My husband and children NEED to step up and do more around the house if I'm going to work outside the home.
And for the BIG NEWS before I go iron my blouse for work...M starts a new job on Monday. After a week with second interviews he was left with multiple offers to choose from. Ultimately, he chose the every other Friday off job. I think it will be a good fit for our family. But, I will need to continue to work until we're back up on our feet. (It's been 10 weeks with no job) Just the HOPE that comes from knowing there will be a big paycheck before our next mortgage is due is fantastic.
So, the knitting that I'm not photographing, or the knitting that I am photographing but don't have time to post...
I finished my BYOB
I CO for another smaller market bag with the remnants of Cotton-Ease and it's almost done...if I can just remember where I set the pattern.
I'm to the toe decreases on the 2nd Sanity Sock
I've finished 3 more washcloths
I have new yarn to photograph
I think I'll leave it at that. If I normally comment at your blog, but I haven't been around...there just isn't enough hours right now. I miss the time to email.
And Tammy, my only 'spelling errors' here are th in 9th, ok, and nd in 2nd! I do know what you mean about zero missed spellings.
10.01.2008
More to pray about...
Wisdom. It's hard to make decisions that will change the future for your family when you don't even have all the information. Today, M received an offer from the Thursday interview. He's tentatively accepted that, but there is paperwork to be signed and the have projected the 13th as his start date. Then, the Wednesday interview invited M for a 2nd interview. M really feels that this would be an opportunity for them to offer him a position. These jobs really mean completely different things for our family. One job structures the week differently so that employees get every other Friday off. One job could possibly mean a 2 hour commute home because of L.A. traffic. One job will stretch M's management skills. One job will allow him to be a designer. And that's only what we currently know about the companies. We all know that things look different from the inside. We'll have lots to pray about in the next weeks. Also, while there is a job on the horizon, we still have a few weeks before we get a paycheck. I do not doubt that HE will provide though. Thank you all for your prayers these past 2 months! I know that in all this, it is nothing that I have done, and only my Father that brings peace.
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