Hey Guys! I have not fallen off into some deep abyss, but of course I have talked with most of you recently so you would know that! Anyway, I hope all of you have had a great start to the New Year! Our year has started out pretty good. This week we are trying to get back into the swing of things, such as school and activities associated with that, and getting back into eating right, and mostly eating at home! I got sick during the week of Christmas and just did not feel like cooking, and since Eddie was sick too it was pretty much take-out anything. This was not good for the pocketbook or the waistline. We survived though. Currently my car is not working and is jacked up in the driveway. Eddie is trying to replace a part, which he got off but can't get the new one on as it is in a very hard to reach place. Since it has been raining alot, and he is at work until after dark, it will probably be Saturday before it is working again. Of course, Alex has been only too happy to drive me around in his car! He got a new radio for Christmas and it came with a remote, which is just the silliest thing to me. Anyway, he thinks it is really cool. On the way home the other day he said "look mom" and he proceeded to turn the radio up with the remote. I asked him why he did not lean forward and just turn the knob, his reply, "its easier to keep the remote beside you and you don't even have to move, its easier mom". Heaven forbid he move oh maybe two inches. Oh well, it is a nice radio, I would not mind having it personally, of course I care very little about the remote. For my car I got a TomTom, which I think is wonderful as getting lost is a common occurrence for me.
Most of our activities have started back this week and school has too, but it has just been tough getting everyone going again. Bri is working on multiplication in math, and she just really hates it. Of course she used to hate subtraction, but she likes it more now. She loves division, which I personally hate, I would rather multiply. She spent a couple of hours Monday on science, of course she loves science. Then yesterday due to all the rain and a rough time of possible tornadoes she had her day cut short. Of course while we were in the basement due to the tornado warning, I went into the washroom and found it was filling with water. Upon further investigation I found that the water was coming in through the back door and had drenched our carpet, it was puddling around my feet. Alex went out and dug trenches to drain the water away and I started moving things around to start pulling water out of the carpet. Bri wanted to know when I could help her with her spelling and history lessons. I told her I guess she had the rest of the day off as I had to tend to this. Her reply, YES, can I play on the computer? Oh to be a kid and oblivious to the troubles of life. Alex was so happy to be out in the rain and mud digging and I was so happy to be moving things about and trying to soak water into towels, not! I called Eddie, who thankfully made it home shortly thereafter with a new shop vac in hand. He thought I was exaggerating, until he got here. Mostly the carpet is still damp, but not anything like it was. He thinks we may save it, but if not, I'm thinking of maybe putting linoleum in the office as this area is so prone to get water under the door when it rains really bad. At least until we can figure out how to permanently fix the problem that makes water come under the door. Eddie has ideas, but I'm not sure I could explain them well here. With all of this activity and the fact that the roads were awful and the rain was still pouring we missed our first karate lesson of the new year. The kids were a little disappointed, but not too bad. Of course after seeing the kids in their first piano lesson for the new year, well let's just say it was probably for the best.
So today we will try again, and try to get our history and spelling in first to make up for yesterday. We are planning to make the next karate lesson tomorrow, and park day on Friday. Brianna's art teacher wanted to wait until next week before starting that back, which I think is great! Eddie hopes to get my car running again this weekend, hopefully before the full Saturday afternoon kicks in.
On anther subject, I'm happy to report that I have managed to shell two 5 gallon buckets of pecans! Of course, I have filled them right back up so you can't really tell that I emptied anything, unless you look in the freezer! We were at the store this weekend and Eddie jokingly handed me a bag of unshelled nuts, 1lb for 5 or 6 dollars, I can't remember. I do remember being thankful for my pecans though! Not much else is being done, other than routine house work and laundry, everything else is piling up while I try to keep the nuts picked up and shelled. The kids help some, but they are so tired of picking up nuts, and shelling them well they don't do so well with, they usually crush the nut. Bri says it hurts her hands, and Alex will do it if he is told too, otherwise forget it. I did get a Gopher, which makes it easier to for me to pick them up, at least for my poor aching back. Papa asked me yesterday if it would not be better for me to move the back more so that it did not stiffen, as that was what was best for him. I told him the constant bending over was making my back hurt more. As a matter of fact, my back has been in pain everyday so long that I honestly can't remember the last time it did not hurt. He laughed and said he could understand that too. Poor man he has arthritis really bad and winter is really hard on him. He told me that was probably part of my problem as the weather really messes with your bones. This morning it hurts so bad that I'm basically running the house and kids from my chair right now, but I'm going to have to get up and do some yoga moves in a minute to loosen the muscles. That really does seem to help somewhat. Of course it would really help not to move boxes of books and furniture too, but it had to be done in order to get the water out of the house!
Well until next time........
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