Robin's Nest

☹️  Well I am not giving up. Perhaps it just needs an upgrade or download or whatever it is called. Yesterday I accomplished most of what I set out to do. However, on the way home I lost 2 dozen eggs. Silly me put them on the seat of the van instead of the floor. The chatter of the washboard road caused them to bounce to the floor and well... you can imagine the mess. When I turned on the news, which I haven't done in days, I was appalled at the riots that are happening across the country and here. How do people think this behavior avenges a senseless death?! Violence fixes this? What are the shop owners supposed to do when their businesses are vandalized or worse destroyed? I just don't get it. It paralyzes the already crippled economy. I'm sure that a lot of the protesters are out of state instigators in most places. It was sad to hear that this is happening. Protesting I get, destruction and violence, not so much. But on to the events of the day. I am being faithfu

Another delay at the property, what's new... I made it out to water the plants today and they looked pitiful. Hopefully they will perk up and at least survive. Tomorrow is another day. Abraham is going to come and help build the fence. DH agreed to let him build the North side and the East side... don't ask it makes no sense to me. Why would anyone pay for half a fence? On to bigger things, still packing up the Leoti house in hopes of moving sometime. The longer it takes to get moved the more likely it is that I can just get rid of some stuff. With the car loaded up and a trip to the phone store in mind I headed out of the drive to my daughter's home to drop off the kiddo's. She met me a the door and let me know that I needed to head straight out east so DH could get back to town and get a much needed part to finish. Tomorrow is another day. That is all I can say. But I shall not be discouraged. I'll just make masks for the littles and take them to the phone sto

Today will be better than yesterday. I don't think I will lock myself out of the house today! That alone will increase the happy factor! #9 is making the "breakfast" today. She is a very "black & white" kid. She put the bread in the toaster and when done applied jelly... so far all is well... Disaster is brewing! She gave her sister 2 slices of toast on a plate. Sister only wanted one slice. This did not compute in the mind of #9! Who eats one piece of toast?! Well in the littlest one's defense, I have always only made one piece of toast for her. Now for #9, if you refuse her cooking, even if only half of it... It all goes into the trash! As I heard #9 tell her she will throw it all away if the recipient refused any of it, I also heard the toast hit the trash can. Welcome to the spectrum! It is time to get the day rolling and try to find a sitter so I can get to the phone store. Not sure it will happen today. But I do have high hopes! There is also t

The Morning started off quite rough. Cranky kids, hyper dogs and a pain ridden DH. This resulted in a very slow start to the day. Today we are focusing on "Reading with the Teacher". It is a PBS program done by the teachers in Colorado. We keep hoping to see our teachers so we try to watch every day. That is my ploy to get them involved. It has had less than stellar results. The 7yo is the hardest to get to sit still and listen. Hyper is an understatement. She and the dogs compete for attention. She can't even sit still with duct tape... okay that is just a theory or hypothesis but I think it would prove true. Today I have planned out pretty well. It does include taking some food with me for the homeless guy, I hope to find him and learn something about him today. We will see... The kids are going to my daughter's house while I go to the Commissary. Also, the phone store. Hopefully they can reset one of these phones that are currently being used by kids.

It is the end of May, I know but we took a 4-week break from schoolwork at the beginning of the month. That is one of the benefits to homeschooling on your own schedule versus distance learning with the district. Of course if the district is leaving an open schedule this goes out the window. Our particular school was keeping a rigid schedule for some kids and not so much for other kids. Unfortunately, we had one teacher who continued to make veiled threats and open statements that were less than encouraging.  During this whole "pandemic" things were not very clear. Perhaps as a nation we rushed to close things too fast, perhaps not. Perhaps we are going back to normal too quick... time will tell. This led to real chaos with the "distance" learning thing. I know I was frustrated within a week. After the first grade teacher made her threat that "authorities"  might be calling me I was done. Once the letter to the homeschool department was mailed, and I

Happy Memorial Day to everyone! Strange that we say that when it is the day we honor those who lost their lives serving this country. Indeed it means there are families that have lost loved ones and are unlikely to be happy. When the realization hit me that this IS Memorial Day weekend, I was overwhelmed. There is just so much to do in both houses and sprinkle that with kids, dogs, work and doctor appointments and you get the perfect recipe for being overwhelmed. There seems to be no room for a holiday get together! We will wedge one in there though. The storms yesterday forced a day of rest, sort of, one load of stuff made it out east. A second trip was planned in order to get all four dogs out with us. It was to include more stuff but the rain was too much not to mention hail and then snow. So it was just me and the dogs. Visibility was minimal on the second drive out, it was at that point I realized I did not have my phone. In fact, I could not remember where I had it last. I

Hello there! My blogging has fallen prey to the chaos that is my life. I miss most of all the quiet of creativity that goes into writing. For the most part I have tried to stay up with the news on "the virus", but with kids and dogs and well, you name it and it has probably distracted me from my blog. This Morning is no different. I have misplaced three very important items and I cannot really do much without them. I have been racking my memory trying to figure out what I possibly did with them... and I am blank.  But I digress, the new journey is keeping DH on track with a new diet. It is very restrictive and frankly I think ridiculously restrictive. We will trudge on and try to stick to it. It has plenty of options... if you are a rabbit. Or if you hate beef!  Add this to the chaos that is already running rampant and working part-time... Well I am sure you get the point. I thought I would start including a "what we did this week" to my Friday posts. That is

Can you believe it has been almost a month?! Well it is true! Little Madison will be a month old on Thursday... We have been soo busy since her arrival and also sooo lost! I really meant to blog more often but so many many things got in the way. First off I took a night job... silly me. I really thought it would be the easiest shift with the kids in school and all.  It might have been easier but it wasn't. We have had 5 snow days since Madison arrived. Today being another one.  And at least one of them happened during the time I was supposed to be sleeping that first week of work. Add to that three falls for February for me and then closing out my blog page to loan my computer out for a few days. I had no idea where my blog went or how to get back to it. That night shift with no sleep and then the fall that Thursday really threw me for a loop. Also I broke my phone with that fall. Then I planned to go see the doctor and we had a snow day... again. They cancelled my appointment

Recently my friend pointed out that I have not posted in quite some time. This is sad. But I have been very busy, jumping through hoops, running in circles, starting and stopping projects, starting seeds for the garden and generally doing anything except blogging. Adding two more dogs to the menagerie has turned the household upside down. We now have poopy parties to clean up each morning, stuffed animals murdered in the dark of night and shoes that did have partners now single and sole-less. Chaos reigns as the day drags on. The free babysitters are gone, lessons on the computer, confusing and daunting and the thoughts of homeschooling for the near future... well it leaves me breathless... no really lugging that pile of books from here to there is exhausting. Not to mention the energy the kids display in maneuvers meant to avoid the inevitable "pencil and paper" sessions! We had our "final" inspection at the new house and failed. So DH has been out there 7 da