May 26, 2025

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• This was a fairly quiet Memorial day. I woke up this morning to go to the bathroom, and I thought it was 6:30 and still early. When I climbed back in bed, I saw the time on my phone and was not happy to see that it was already 8:30. It still looked dark outside because the rain was coming down all morning. 
• We stayed in bed a little bit longer, but I finally climbed out and started doing a few things around the house. At one point, Robby asked me if I was being productive. My answer was "kind of." I spent a good deal of time this morning working on the kids' cookbooks-I have been collecting recipes times 6 for years now so every few months I have to organize the recipes and put them in the cookbooks. Since these cookbooks are for when the kids leave the house, I am not really sure if working on them is actually being productive.
• Robby made the kids breakfast-it was actually closer to lunch time. He made biscuits, bacon, sausage, and eggs. Everyone was sleeping when he started on breakfast, but the kids came slowly creeping down the stair once they started smelling the bacon frying...or maybe it was the smoke alarms going off. 
• After breakfast, Robby and I went to work-this week is operation clean out the house. We managed to move a few things out of the bonus room, the bonus room bathroom attic, and the bonus room attic-it is nice to have all these attics in this house, but I have filled them completely. 
• We took load after load to the garage including Robby's old collection of Coke bottles. The kids were helping us haul things to the garage until we got to the Coke bottles-then we lost all of our help. Graham, Keaton, and Whitman found seats and worked for over an hour checking the price of everything on Ebay. They have now stored over half of the bottles in the school room to sell-so we are kind of just moving our junk around the house!
• Robby and I ran to Grannymom's house for a little bit and then to Sams. While he was picking up our pretzels at Sams, I ran into Walmart. The pretzels took a while so I just kept adding things to my arms.
• We picked Keaton up when we rolled in the driveway and left to take her to a friend's house to spend the night. Campbell also has a friend over here spending the night. The big boys had had enough of time at the house, so they went to play pickeball with their friends after we made chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, and cheese dip for our supper. Robby and I were pretty pleased that we have fed everyone two meals tonight. 
• I have read and worked on school things tonight, but now we are watching tv and about to eat some ice cream.