Tarantulas and Bones!

 Today will be short and sweet.  I need to listen to a Nutrition 100 lecture and so I don't have time to pour my soul out, ha ha.

One thing though, I don't think that I will be able to apply for the LVN program that starts in Fall of 2021.  Things are just too unpredictable with this pandemic.  If I will need to home school my kids again next Fall than I will not be able to be in school full time (as well as the time at the hospital).  So, I guess I'll play it by ear.  My kids are my first priority.  If they all want to be home-schooled, then I will happily home-school them.  For as long as they would like me to.  Lizzie will be starting High School next year, which means early morning seminary!  I can't believe we have already reached that stage of life.

I am worried about Mason.  He is such an anxious little boy.  He is so young, yet he is already exhibiting signs of anxiety and depression.  I want to make sure that I'm always there for him when he needs me.

Secretly, I would love to be a seminary teacher.  I would choose that any day over being a nurse.  I hope and pray that I will be able to teach seminary at one point in my life.

Anyway...on to the TARANTULA!

We were playing Hide-and-Seek after dinner and we saw a tarantula on our grass!!  What?!  This is something I would have never expected to see.  The girls screamed and ran inside as fast as their legs would carry them.  The boys and I were "brave" and we watched it.  It crawled around on the grass for a while and then it crawled into the sprinkler hole.  I texted my family and they thought it was fake!  I assured them that it was very, very real!  It was the craziest thing ever!  A nice change from our usual rattle snakes though, ha ha.




Happy early Halloween to us, ha ha!

I made the kids "Funny Bones" for a Halloween Treat today.  It was made out of pretzel rods, marshmallows, and white chocolate chips.  I thought that they turned out pretty cute!







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