Monday chatter 080728

Lots to do today. I accomplished my goals from last week, PTL

So today (and the rest of this week lol):

Clean the kitchen:
Dishes
Floor (sand all over it, you can just feel it when walking barefoot!)
Counters (1, 2, 3)

Call mom and see if she'll bring a vacuum cleaner over (dad went to vacuum the kid's rooms while we were at the beach, and the belt in ours broke ... my floor is ROUGH looking.)

Get the living room completely presentable, decluttered

Declutter the dining room some

Move furniture:
desk from Jackson's room to dining room
cherry oak desk across dining room for Jackson
Hannah's bed so we can put up her canopy
bookshelf- it needs a home- our bedroom? Hallway?
desk in hallway- to Hannah's room?

Clothes in foyer, find a good way to get rid of them (be it lot for sale at church or amazon)

My nightstand- reorganize, declutter

our bedroom- get the luggage put away

my closet- extra clothes- declutter and make decisions (keep or toss)

order curriculums

fill out FAFSA (if I haven't missed the deadline)

there's more, I'm sure ...

All morning I have been after my children- UHG! we're going to do something about their rooms if it kills me! They are going to be so desolate and deprived of all modern day priviledges if they do not realize mom means what she says! Jackson doesn't realize he is losing his door today, that will be interesting....

Friday chatter, board topics

If it kills me, this will get done ....

* Find recipes for marinating raw green beans.
* Find the best way to freeze green beans.
* Find a good way to store homemade pickles.
* Fill out the letter of intent to the state to homeschool the kids.

When I get these done, I'll add more ...

I am STUNNED.

We had 49 people vote in the poll for our first monthly theme week! KUDOS to the new CL of CWG, Dana, for promoting it like she did. She is going to be a wonderful leader for that community in furthering what Brenda and I worked so hard to build. Brenda and I are working more in a "behind the scenes" type of capacity now, and it works for us. We will be participating in Theme Week each month though :O)

So August 1st, be sure to come by Creating Websites and Graphics to request some Back to School themed tags in the Offers folder!!

Light & Lean Cooking are talking about zucchini in the form of brownies, oh my! Kelly from Frugal Kitchen is wanting to know a good recipe for the cooking-challenged one to make baked macaroni and cheese; the others are talking about the kitchen gadgets they cannot live without; and on the Curious Chef they're talking about Odd Sandwich combinations .. hhmmmmm ....

Have a great day eveyone!

Wednesday's chatter

Today has not started out well. I woke up later than I should have. Usually when I wake up later I'm still not in a bad mood. I guess I didn't sleep well last night. I don't know, I don't remember anything. I do know that I feel rough, my neck is very tense like a headache is coming on, I am overwhelmed, period. I am very unsettled. very. I'm starting to feel conflicted as to whether I really need to be homeschooling this year. I'm wondering if it is really the best decision for our family, right now. Jay has made it clear that it will be "my thing", and you know, .... I'm just not that sure that I can emotionally tackle those things of responsibilities.

I'm full of fear right now. If they go to public schools, which, the one two tenths of a mile from our school has a very good reputation but I don't know if I could get them in there or not- but I worry with the differing curriculums, if they won't fall back in their educations. I don't believe in after-schooling, six hours plus homework is enough. I just don't kow. I mean, we do NOT have the money to purchase their curriculums, who am I kidding? I have to practically beg for grocery money through logic each week. When I think of our financial situation, I just feel sick. Maybe this is why my headaches are coming back so frequently?

As for my to do list today, I will be happy to finish what I started yesterday. What's left is in red:

* finish Jackson's bedclothes (comforters, sheets, pillow cases ...)
* Put away the clean dishes and wash what's in the sink (not much)
* Wash the dirty dishes after dinner (as so to not have as much in the morning)
* Straighten the livingroom, try to get rid of some folding chairs that were left from the week of the baby's funeral that have become "catch all's". This means putting everything piled up on them away, too.
* Continue decluttering "my corner" of our bedroom. It has become a "catch all" for winter clothes. I'm trying to get all the winter clothes in one spot, soooo ....
* Find recipes for marinating raw green beans.
* Find the best way to freeze green beans.
* Find a good way to store homemade pickles.
* Write out all of the groceries I have to work on my grocery exile.
* Fill out the letter of intent to the state to homeschool the kids.
* Figure out how we are going to buy our curriculums, and how much longer I have before I need to order them- what my deadline is.

But for now, I think I'll just go cry ...

Thursday's chatter

wow, I need to start waking up earlier, lol I slept horrible last night, in that, I barely slept. I was wired and keyed up until almost 5am, and I woke about 9:30. I've already got a number of things done:

Wrote two posts about my reading from today, turned into a devotion of sorts and a testimony.
Dried a load of clothes, that is on it's way to my bed to make two loads waiting to be folded and put up.
Washed two large blankets, one is hanging outside the other is in it's second rinse- it will go outside when it's done.
I washed dishes from last night's dinner and this morning's breakfast.

I know that doesn't seem like much, but in my world, that's movin' on to better things, LOL!! So today's ToDos ... I would like to:

*Get the dishes I washed put away.
*Finish washing and drying the bedclothes from our room, completely (put away, everything.)
*Get the clothes that are dry on my bed, folded, hung, and put away.
*Find my couch again, it's covered with clean clothes from last week that no one felt the need to put up. I just caught the memo under the end table that said "... even though your clothes are on hangers and just need transported to your closet, mom is the one that does that. Even if you have to move said clothes to sit down"
*Not have a headache by VBS.

Speaking of VBS, we had 450 kids last night! Praise the LORD!!
So what are YOU doing today? Remember you can sub to this thread and receive email notifications with my responses, so it would be like 'chatting' almost! :o)

Wednesday TaDa's

Lets see ... what have I gotten done today?

A TON as far as designing the blog some more.
As you can see, a LOT of posting.
I read my bible, today's passage and 'catch up' passage.
Washed a load of dishes.
Dried half of them and put them away.
Washed #1 load of laundry, put it outside to dry.
Washed #2 load of laundry, about to rewash it if needed (this was a basket our psycho kitty rebelled in, uhg)

Hmmmm, feels like so much more!

VBS is this week, so I need to get dinner ready for us to eat early, because the bus will be here by 6pm. I missed last night because of a massive headache, but I think by taking meds early I avoided a migraine.

added at midnight: I finished the day wth cooking venison meatloaf- using a homemade BBQ sauce that was GOOD! and a concoction for a make shift "casserole", LOL

I mopped the mess that was my laundry room, which was awful. Our female cat is refusing the litter box, which is in the laundry room. When I woke up to her pee'ing in the bed with me in it, that's when she become an outside cat .... Ohhhh- lemme go let her in, LOL ..... ok I'm back. So anyways. if there's *anything* in the floor in the laundry room, she will go on it. So the idea is, she can sleep inside, but Jay has to put her out when he gets up in the morning. Well, she was "accidentally" left inside, and I did not realize it until after lunchtime. There was a basket with pillowcases that was soaked, and another basket with towels and a couple of T shirts, and urine was running across the floor, and where the boys (three more, she makes four cats total), where they jump in and out of the litter box, there was a nice layer of litter over the little river of urine. YUCK!!

Then imagine an average dirty kitchen floor to begin with, that has had three sets of four paws walking over the urine in the laundry room that is off of the kitchen, tracking it through the kitchen little by little. BLEH! So I scalded the mop the best I could and went over the kitchen whole I was mopping.

Needless to say, I'm going to have to figure out how to change the head on my miracle mop Thursday!!

I have a ton of To Do's for tomorrow, be on the lookout! So what have you gotten done today? :O)