School Starts in 10 days!

It just hit me today that school starts in 10 days!  Not just typical school...but home school for an 8th-grader, a 6th-grader, a 3rd-grader, a 1st-grader, and a preschooler.  Along with home schooling, Jon will be working his 3 jobs from home.  And his parents and grandma will be moving in with us.  All in the middle of a Pandemic.  Am I going to be able to do this?  Am I strong enough?  Will I be able to handle all of this emotionally?  Will I snap?  Will I start being a person that I don't want to be due to all of the stress and chaos around me?  I'm actually getting a little nervous for it all.  Honestly, I'm most nervous about Jon's parents and grandma moving in.  This means that the house will always be crowded, always busy, always messy...and I will have no escape.  I pray that I will be able to make it through.  I feel like such a bad person to even be concerned about it all.  I'm sorry.

Today I spent a few hours dropping off Lemons to the Young Women for our upcoming Young Women Virtual activity next Wednesday.  We are supposed to make something with lemons and share it with everyone.  Lizzie and I still have to decide what we are going to make.

Our friend, Eizley Larson, came over to play today.  She lives in town and so I picked her up on the way home from dropping of the Lemons.  She used to live in our previous ward (The Somerset Ward).  She is an only child and her Mom is divorced.  Her mom (Sarah) is a high school music teacher.  I really like Sarah and Eizley.  The kids played really well together today.




I played a nice game of Rumicube with Caitlyn.


I took a picture of this bird because it had just flown full blast into our library window.  Oddly enough, this happens quite often.  I'm not sure why, but birds like to run into our windows.  Poor thing, it was really stunned for a while.


Caitlyn played the Traffic Jam game today.  It's really a fun game!


William has been enjoying his Playmobile toys recently.


Mason is emptying the dishwasher.  He's a good little helper.  The girls and the boys take turns emptying the dishwasher each day.  It's helpful to me.


I'm really tired for some reason.  I read Mason another Goosebumps book today and I kept falling asleep.  I just feel exhausted.  All I want to do is go to bed right now.  Tomorrow is Saturday.  I'm hoping to get the bathrooms and the floors cleaned as well as the kids' bedrooms (they need de-junking).  I also should probably clean the pantry.  Additionally, I think I'm going to cut the boys' hair...maybe without Jon knowing.  I'll surprise him!  Now is the best time to practice haircuts since they aren't going to church or school, no one will see them!

Okay, I need to go to bed.

I am so blessed.  If only I could serve more people.  I feel like there must be something that I can do to show my gratitude to Heavenly Father.

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