This week’s post is going to be short and boring compared
to last week’s. I don’t think I took any pictures this week, either. What can I
say…spending a week in the wilderness with tons of girls and a thunderstorm and
rattlesnakes is a lot more exciting than life at home for a week. I really
wouldn’t want it any other way, though. Being at home is much more restful,
too!
I can’t remember much about Sunday again. It must have been
pretty average. Frank had a lot of meetings. A new family just moved into our
ward from Arkansas and they have 4 boys, so that is cool! Their oldest just
finished high school and their youngest is Seth’s age so the only difference
between them and us is that we have 2 older boys and their other 2 boys are
sandwiched in between the 18 year old and the 9 year old. We have had a couple
of other young families move in the last few weeks too. This is pretty exciting
since we’ve had lots of people move (or stop coming to church) the last few
years but no one moving in.
This has been a pretty average week, so there is not a lot
to talk about. I’ve been getting caught up on the home routine and now things
like cleaning, laundry, and the level of food in the house are back to normal.
It has been a good week to hibernate in the house because
it’s been in the 90’s with high humidity most of the week. We’ve had lots of
heat advisories and such. We got a pretty strong thunderstorm on Monday and it
rained again quite a bit last night. It has cooled down to the 80s today and it
feels much nicer!
Frank went to the doctor on Monday because his foot had been
hurting a lot for several days. I went with him because I also wanted him to
ask about a sleep study and I felt like I could give more accurate information
about his sleep habits than he could (since he’s asleep, you know!). It turns
out that he has plantar fasciitis, which is inflammation of a thick band of
tissue in the foot. He has some medicine for that and there are some stretches
he can do. Mostly he just has to wait for it to go away. Unfortunately, that
can take a while and it can also come back—can be kind of chronic. But there
are worse things! He also has a sleep study scheduled for 2 weeks from today
and I am anxious to see what the results of that will be. I don’t necessarily
want them to find something wrong, but at the same time I do because I think he
never gets a good night’s sleep and is exhausted all the time. It would be nice
if they could find something that can be treated so that he can be a less tired
person!
On Monday I also went out to have frozen yogurt with a friend. We usually do lunch, but that wasn’t working with our schedules so we
did that instead. Turns out it was $5 fill your cup day at the yogurt place so
that was nice because I could get as much as I want and not have to pay over $5.
Turns out I only spent $4.11 so I should have filled that cup up some more!
Our new table, chairs, and sideboard have finally arrived at
the store and are scheduled for delivery next Wednesday. It was supposed to
take 8 weeks at the most for them to arrive from the time we placed the order,
and it has been more like 13 weeks, but oh well! We haven’t been around that
much anyway. Knowing the new table is coming, I did some research about storage
units and we reserved one nearby. We will store the old table there, as well as
a lot of other things like Christmas decorations, excess computer equipment,
rarely used cooking equipment, and all the stuff the older boys have left here but
aren’t using currently. Basically, everything that no one is using but no one is
willing to give away, either. I’m excited because when we get all of that moved
over to the storage unit, the house is going to be a lot less cluttered.
The rest of the week I have spent a lot of time doing Cub
Scout related stuff. I planned and got ready for den meeting this week (we
made—and ate of course—two nutritious snacks and worked on making cookbooks)
and I have also been really busy getting things ready for Day Camp, which is
next week. Frank and I are in charge of helping the Bears (there are 24 of them)
cook an outdoor meal one of the nights. We are also helping the Bears learn how
to set up a tent. So we have been planning how we are going to do those two
things. I am also in charge of record keeping, and have spent quite a bit of
time creating some spreadsheets for each level (Wolf, Bear, Webelo) to help us
keep track of which requirements the boys pass off. It’s taken a lot longer
than I anticipated, but I am almost done now.
Jared has worked a couple of shifts this week. He also mowed
the lawn for me. He has been working on his mission papers and has almost
everything done. We should easily get those submitted before he leaves for
college. He went one evening to meet Jessie and some of his other friends in
Brunswick to have dinner together. He hadn’t seen any of them since before he
went to New York, so he wanted to get caught up. He and Jessie are just being
friends now.
This morning we had the carpool boys over to play. Their mom
is going to homeschool all of them this year so we don’t have a carpool
anymore. There is another family on our street who has a daughter who’s been
going to Seth’s school so I contacted her to see if she is interested in
carpooling, but she is going to homeschool this year too! I guess I will be
driving Seth both ways this year, which is kind of a pain but I did it for years with the older boys so I’m sure I can handle it.
Seth has been doing fairly well. He slept really well last
week while I was gone, apparently. He is staying up pretty late now which is
surprising to me because he has not had his medicine most days. I thought it
was the medicine that was keeping him up at night, but it must be something
else. He’s had a few temper outbursts and one night accumulated 15 chores to
make up for that, but he always calms down and does the chores pretty
willingly. (I counted dusting a piece of furniture as a chore, so he dusted
most of the house!)
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