- This was a fairly calm Monday for which I am thankful. I was the first one awake this morning and started on the pesky laundry and dishes before taking Bentley out to be brushed. Then it was on to waking up the kids.
- Campbell said that she was already awake, but I am not too sure about that. I have learned the trick to waking Whitman up in the mornings-I tell him how many minutes he has on his ipad before we start to work. Usually, this will get him stirring at least. This morning 15 minutes after waking him up, I found him curled up with that ipad sound asleep-it didn't work too well today.
- We did all of our reading this morning which is just always my favorite part of the day. I could read to them for hours longer than we have but always have to hurry the last few minutes so I can get everything in.
- Then the kids started on their school work. Keaton usually does quite a bit of work the night before and always tries to work ahead. Whitman should work ahead, but bless him, if he can just get the days work done then that is a win. Though he has plenty of time to do work during the afternoon or evening, but he would so grumble and complain if I suggested it.
- Campbell has to leave early tomorrow and then will be gone all day Thursday for church things so she is right now feverishly trying to get ahead for the rest of the week. Reagan also doesn't need any motivation to do school-she has been working on the ACT each night. The boys need some of the motivation that my girls have.
- Keaton wanted to go to Defy so Whitman was "forced" to go as well. She jumped the entire hour while Whitman was full of grumbles and complaints. I was sitting downstairs so I was a nearby ear for his whining today.
- Robby left for Memphis this afternoon in hopes that the camper can be diagnosed and fixed tomorrow. He is at an RV park overlooking the mighty Mississippi. He even climbed up into a treehouse to look at the river.
- I then took Graham to the orthodontist to get those retainers. He has been without since the beginning of July. I am glad that he has them now, and I told him that they would not leave the house on a trip unless I was going with them.
- Since Robby was gone tonight, we just all ate our own thing for supper. Keaton and Reagan had manicotti, Whitman, Anderson and I had nachos, Graham had his free ChickFilA that we picked up on the way home from the orthodontist, and Campbell is just now working on her dinner.
- I have just finished watching a Hallmark movie and am now going to get me some ice cream without telling the kids!
August 7, 2023
August 6, 2023
- This was a fairly busy morning. First, Keaton had a farewell to the Children's ministry breakfast during the Sunday school hour. My Sunday school class and Whitman's all had their end of the year parties at the same time. Robby and I did sneak into the breakfast for a few minutes and then joined our class back.
- After all of this, I had worship care with the itty babies. We had one that fussed most of the day, but it wasn't all bad-we were able to do a bit of visiting during all of that though. It did make the time go by faster though.
- After church we headed to Nonna and Pops' house to eat lunch. They had bbq and all of the fixings. The kids were all pretty chatty about their upcoming busy week and everything from Sunday morning so there were lots of stories to listen to.
- We came home, and the kids put away their laundry. Then Robby and I had a short nap before he went to run some errands while I worked on Sunday school things along with school things.
- Soon the kids were all leaving-Anderson and Graham left early with Brett on their way to Rock Creek while Reagan left later with Campbell to got Rock Creek. Reagan stopped off and watched a movie on the way home, but the rest of the people, the Wilsons and some others came to the house to eat supper tonight.
- Shannon and I were able to visit while Tony and Robby went on a work errands for Tony. When Robby finally made it home, the kids were still going strong here. Now, I have finished my blog and am about to put these people in their beds-actually in their rooms. No one is going to go to bed anytime around here.
August 5, 2023
- I am not too sure what time Keaton and her friends went to bed last night, but they were up at a decent time this morning making smoothies in the kitchen. The blender was pretty loud and woke the others up or they were already up, but Keaton did end up making Whitman a smoothie as well.
- I am not really sure what Keaton and her people did for the rest of the morning because I left with the big boys. Graham had a free bundt cake for his birthday, so he drove us there first. He did just fine, but there is a big difference between driving on Lawson and driving on Chenal. There aren't too many cars on Lawson right in front of you, but there is on Bowman and Chenal. He did fine though except every blasted stop light we went through turned yellow right as he was going through them.
- From there, we went to get their hair cut. I know that I have said it before but man, I wish I had learned how to cut the boys' hair. Like somewhere along the way I should have taken some classes. I would be good at putting together a list of classes for others to take-basic hair cutting, bread making, chocolate chip cookie making, etc. Now, I couldn't teach any of the classes, but I would certainly sign up for them.
- And back to the chocolate chip cookie making-yesterday was chocolate chip cookie day. I am not sure if I mentioned it. I thought that I would make cookies; however, we only had about a cup of chocolate chips so I saw one of my recipes used just that. I read that they were to be flat and crispy, but mine were just a flop! I would attend the cookie making class for sure.
- I wasn't home too long from the hair place when it was time to leave again. We dropped off one friend at her house, dropped off another friend at the birthday party that we were taking Campbell too, and then dropped the last friend at her house. Then Keaton and I came home right before it started to rain.
- While it rained, Robby and I took a cat nap on the couch. We had started watching a youtube video, but soon it was over, and we were still snoozing. We couldn't rest for too long because soon it was time to pick up Campbell and her friend that was spending the night.
- We picked them up and then ran into Kroger to get a few things. Afterwards, we picked up pizza from two different places-the meaty pizza and the not so meaty pizza. Even though it was just 6 when we made it home, we all devoured it like we hadn't really eaten all day.
- Some of the kids had showers, some of the kids had their second showers of the day. So many towels and so many clothes that we wash every day.
- Keaton and Laynie are making cookies or something in the kitchen right now while I hope to eat some ice cream later and just sit on this couch for the rest of the evening!
August 4, 2023
- What a wonderful Friday this was. We really didn't do anything at all. The kids all slept until almost 11 or really some slept even later.
- Robby ran a few errands this morning and even came home with a load of groceries. I was outside brushing and trimming Bentley so I didn't hear him, and he had to unload the groceries by himself.
- I brush Bentley every day. And I am not sure if I have talked about her hair or not. From what I have read Golden Retrievers shed their coat twice a year. However, I have never been figured out when exactly Bentley is shedding her coat, because she is shedding her coat ALL year long.
- For instance, I brushed her today so long with hair collecting on my, in the brush, on the table, and tons of hair flying through the air. My thought is that any hair that we leave outside is hair that does not fall of in our house.
- But today I did more than brush her, I also trimmed her. She is kind of like my own chia pet. I kind of enjoying trimming her hair-makes me wish I could cut the boys' hair too, but they might be a little pickier than the dog. And I must have done a decent job on the dog today because no one has noticed her trim.
- At 1 today, Keaton, Whitman, Campbell, Graham, Anderson and I went to Defy. We were there for about 50 minutes when the kids decided that they were ready to go. I thought that was good since I could hear the thunder, and it looked like the storm was not yet on us on the radar...
- But I was wrong. It was pouring! When we all jumped in the car, the rain from Graham's side was blowing so hard that it blew onto Anderson on the other side of the car. We were all drenched. But not drenched enough that we didn't want to run into the gas station for a drink before going home.
- We weren't home too long until Keaton's friends started showing up. She has friends over tonight-they have made pasta and made cookie dough. While they were making cookie dough they had one person blind folded, one listening to loud music so they couldn't hear, and two people couldn't talk. Robby and I were trying to watch a movie while they were doing this, and it was quite difficult.
- Unfortunately, during all of this time I was quite distracted and forgot about the blog so I am quickly trying to finish it now before we urge these people towards their beds.
August 3, 2023
- We finished the first week of school this week, and thankfully everyone has finished all of their things and there is nothing that I know of school wise that we have to do tomorrow-at least I hope not!
- Whitman was finished around noon today, but I made him keep working and do spelling with me. We are about half way through this spelling book, and I wanted to finish before Christmas, but honestly, that is probably not going to happen.
- I worked on some recipes this afternoon. It was one of the "extra" things I do-I have made cookbooks for each of the kids and was trying to add a few more recipes. I started them years ago, but now I am not really sure when I give them to the kids.
- Graham went for a run right at noon today. This is the third or fourth day that he has been running outside. He didn't wait until it was cooler, but I guess that he wasn't out there too long running. He must have had some extra energy to burn off since he found out there is a possibility that he is getting a job at Reagan's workplace.
- I think that today was the first day in a while that Keaton didn't bake anything during the afternoon. Robby had bought some grapes last night, and those babies are pretty much completely gone. I am not sure why sometimes when we have fruit, it sits here, and other times it is gone in less than 24 hours.
- This evening the big 3 went to Raymar with the church group. They all seemed to have fun-or at least they were pretty sweaty when they all came home. Sweaty and hungry-they were all pretty hungry too.
- Robby and I went to the Wilson's house for a little this evening. We ate some chips and salsa and watched some tv while visiting for a good while. We came home about the same time that the big kids made it home.
- They all made their suppers while Whitman, Keaton, Robby, and I watched a little bit of tv before bed. Since there is no school tomorrow, maybe we will stay up a little bit later tonight.
August 2, 2023
- This morning Whitman finished his school before 11:30. He had done a bit of extra math yesterday, so that did help. Whenever he finishes early, it is a big win. Now, he really wants to finish at 11 which is near when Keaton finishes, but he just moves too slowly for all of that. Maybe someday.
- Campbell took the first section of the ACT this morning just to practice. She had never done anything like this, but she did just fine. Though the print was super tiny on the pages she was looking at, so I just told her to do half this week, and we would do more when those glasses come in.
- Graham did plenty of work today, but he has saved all of his videos that he has to watch for Civics and Economics for tomorrow. That will make for an exciting day for him! I am not really sure what his thinking was behind all of this, but maybe he will learn that wasn't a good idea. Or maybe it will work well for him.
- Around 1:30, Robby and I took Keaton and Whitman to Defy. When we drove up, Whitman noticed the buses and said that we were supposed to go on a school day. Soon all those other folks will be at school, and they will have the place to themselves.
- When we came home, we had a bit of downtime before Robby and I worked on supper. We made the Wilson's fettuccine Alfredo. I wasn't sure if we could replicate their meal since everyone had really liked it, but thankfully the kids said that they liked it. I think that they were telling us the truth.
- Robby went to pick up Grannymom and Grandpa from their westward trip this evening while Anderson watched some car racing on the tv. Keaton was spending a good bit of her evening working on her tomorrow's school work.
- I spent a bit of time scanning our wedding pictures so they could be online and easy to access.
- Tonight is ice cream sandwich day so we are going to enjoy those before this evening is over!
August 1, 2023
- Day 2 of school, and we are all still here. Seriously, it wasn't too bad at all. My biggest complaint about school this year is that my bedroom is just a little bit chilly. I know it is a hundred outside, but at 9:30 I'm wearing a sweatshirt. I must just sit right where the vent shoots out the cool air.
- Campbell, Graham, Anderson, and Reagan went to Tacos for Life with the church group today. I never heard what all they ate, but I did see a box of leftovers in the fridge.
- While Whitman and I were finishing up school, we got a pool text. We then put things into high gear and went to town-well, I did. Whitman didn't care about going to the pool, but Keaton did so Whitman got to go too.
- We were at the pool for about 2.5 hours. Even though Whitman is never crazy about leaving the house, he still had fun. He says that he does not like "to be forced" to do things. The boy is pretty smart and realized that his big brothers have a bit of say over what they do and don't do. For example, I give the big boys an option to go to the pool or even Defy, but Whitman doesn't get that choice. If I were to give him a choice he would seriously just sit at home and never leave the house.
- We were home from the pool by 3 which was the perfect time. We did school, went to the pool, and then still had time for the afternoon. I really didn't do too much during the afternoon. I had intentions of walking on the treadmill, but instead I read some and took a 25 minute nap.
- Instead of our planned supper, we ended up eating supper at the Crafts. It was a fun little trip-we took the camper so Casey could look at it, and they could compare things. Traci had a delicious pasta, and they also had a huge waterslide in their front yard.
- We all had fun, but Whitman probably had the most fun. I told him about the waterslide, but he said he didn't want to take his bathing suit. When we arrived, and he say how huge it was, he changed his mind and quickly changed!
- We had a fun visit, but we had to hurry home because Anderson and Robby had movie tickets tonight. Their movie didn't start until 9, so maybe I will put the kids to bed early and read my book. Honestly, I go to bed before the kids these days!
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