Robin's Nest

  This holiday week started with a bang or a crash or however you want to say it. A flat tire started the pre-Thanksgiving week forcing me to drive the alternate van. No worries, no back up camera, no movie player for the kiddos, no leather seats to mess up like I said no worries! Until the day after Thanksgiving. While driving to town to take the littlest baby to her mama for "lunch" some goof ball driving rubbish to the dump apparently didn't care that his load wasn't secure. As we approached each other on the highway I could see something large lifting off of his trailer. Unfortunately it was unavoidable and it slammed into the front end of my van.  After it hit my vehicle it became a lump in the road and the car behind me high centered on it. Both cars were significantly damaged and the offending driver and all those behind him just continued on with their day. No one stopped at all. To make matters worse the state patrol said unless we got a plate number there wa

Today is Thanksgiving. We all have things to be thankful for. Some more than others, but if nothing else we have our lives. Family, is a given for most but not all. We cannot fix the world alone, and that's where we have to turn it over to God before he turns us over to Satan.  I joke about procrastinating but this is not something we need to joke about. Actually, I take my procrastinating very seriously! This was my answer to using spiral notebooks to organize the school day...  When you get up this morning imagine where you came from. Were you just an accident or a plan between your parents? Do you really know what your life is about? What your purpose is? I thought I did.  I know now that I didn't.  When I get up each day whether it be 0300 or after 0700 my first thought is not to thank God for my upcoming day, it should be. But usually I am scolding a dog or two as I trip my way to the door to let them outside before they piddle on my carpet. Today was no different. They ch

  Two days ago we were planning a trip across country. Today I was emptying the closet in the Master Bedroom. Why you ask? Because to take a trip across country I must have someone come and stay in my home to care for all the animals. That someone has 3 children and two of them are boys. All boy, boys. This means what one doesn't think of the other one does. Therefore I need a gun safe, beings we did not get the home I had in mind I need to make room in the one we did get. It has been a week of rearranging and donating stuff. It may turn into two weeks of this. There is that much more to do! I am still a hoarder after all that burned some habits don't die easily. Mostly I am a procrastinator... that makes me a hoarder by second nature not first.  You see I like to sew, therefore I buy fabric. Then the procrastinator takes over and says let's do that project later. Then another innocent trip to the fabric store to buy something... anything, results in more fabric coming home

  This request should have been turned down, but it wasn't. It seemed an innocent request.. I mean really what could happen? We will never know. As the day requested came and left without the arrival of an extra dog. About noon I sent a message to my neighbor asking if I needed to come get the little darling or was she bringing him over?  I received a reply that their appointment was cancelled so the puppy would remain home. The reason for the request in the first place was that four of their female dogs were in heat and the puppy had no pants to keep it in. So I offered up our largest kennel as a solution. I was rewarded with a plate of homemade cookies! That's why you don't turn requests down! This week has been full of things to do, like fish the cover of the pool out of the depths of the water. Place more inner tubes in so there is more lift. Tighten the cover after all this is done and get more leaves off the surface of the cover. Go to the bank find out if the check f

I don't know about you but for me a list is essential! It's like underwear... almost. You can go without it but why would you? I personally forget at least one thing that I go to town for without a list if not more. Sure if you live right next to say... King Soopers it is not that big of a deal but when you live 22 miles from the nearest King Soopers it becomes more essential to carry a list.  Last week I made a trip to town just about every day. Of course, every day I forgot to buy "C" batteries. The new otoscope that I had purchased required that size where my old one took "AA". We always seem to have that and "AAA" batteries scattered about so remembering this one size shouldn't be that big of a deal. I finally remembered the batteries when I ran to Costco on Saturday. Starting the list the night before is helpful for me also. It contributes to getting things off my mind. Lately my mind has been jam-packed with "to-do's". With

I wish I could say I was in my right mind when I made an appointment for the youngest at 0740 in the morning, but I couldn't have been. Really , who would make one that early for an 8 year old if they didn't have to? Apparently, I would and did. We made it on time and early for once. A miracle to say the least. It was a good appointment or in the 8 year-old's own words "the best appointment ever". For months we have had to raise our voices at Little Miss to get even a mild response, now I know why. She failed her hearing screening on the right side hearing not even one sound the machine gave and missed two of the sounds on the left. Add these to significant vision challenges and it's no wonder she doesn't like schoolwork. We left with lots of follow up appointments and an inhaler in response to our "coughing fits" description among other symptoms elicited during the exam. The rest of the afternoon has been spent trying convince another occupant o