Thoughts

1) The "organize thoroughly" plan has turned into the "organize enough to breathe" plan. Since we are beginning the orchard work soon and we are starting school on the 12th I have decided to just clean and do basic organizing over the next week. My goal: to be done by Tuesday. Then I would have the rest of the week to get ready for school: lesson planning, ordering co-op supplies, menu planning, & so forth.

2) Even though I have not blogged as often as I would like, I am glad that I am blogging more often than I was. It feels refreshing somehow.

3) Mama Mondays has kinda turned out to be a flop. But I'm not giving up! It will just be more of an anything relating to mamas thing versus the "advice" thing. I discovered that when I would go to write out how we do a certain something, that the way I do it isn't really working for me. So I didn't feel qualified. I have gotten some really cool tips from other Mamas lately though. I've even put some of them into practice and it is helping a lot so far.

4) I have some cute pictures to post but my laptop is on the fritz and so I sent it to my IT guy. I'm bumming this computer off of Jay. But I will post those pics as soon as I get my computer back.

5) Our power(electrical) is freaking out on us again. It does this every August/September. We get big surges of power and appliances and lightbulbs start bursting and blowing out and the only way to stop it is to shut off the main breaker. Well, we may or may not have found the problem area. An electrician is coming tomorrow to try and fix it. Assuming that he's not digging my charcoaled corpse out of the rubble instead. But I don't think that's part of his job description. As to why it would only do this during this time of year, I have no idea. It's really weird.

6) Adam & Avril really need clothes for fall & winter. I have been eyeing some stuff for quite a while but just can't bring myself to spend the money. In the past I just always got everything on clearance the year before but since I failed to do that last year I feel like I'm playing catch-up. I have to buy things all at once and at a higher price. Plus Adam is getting harder to tell if something is going to fit him or not the next season let alone the next year. And in a couple of years Rowan will no longer be receiving Adam's hand-me-downs because Adam is destroying his clothes before he outgrows them. Lucky for me that clothes shopping for my kids is a favorite hobby of mine.

7) Hey! Do any of you have favorite healthy dinners that you cook? I bought a new cookbook and that is helping tremendously but I still need inspiration. I'm a baker, not a cook. I just have a hard time cooking with prepackaged stuff because it's so unhealthy and usually loaded with dairy products. But I get so boring when I am cooking from scratch. I tend to just do the easy and quick thing which adds up to about 7 different meals with my lack of creativity in the cooking department.

8) Any plans for the long weekend? We might go see Jay's brother in Washington but they may have other plans. Still waiting to hear from them. If not, we will probably work ourselves half to death with all of things that need to be done here. I do really want to do something fun as a family to say good-bye to the summer but I'm not sure what as of yet. We could always pic-nic and go fishing I suppose. The kids get a kick out of that.

9) Tomorrow we find out whether Beaux and Serina are having a boy or a girl. I think I am going to guess girboyl(gur-boi-ul). It sounds so fitting for them.
Honestly, I don't know what to guess. My instinct says girl but I am almost always wrong. And they seemed really happy. So that makes me think it's a boy. Gideon or Genevieve? Genevieve or Gideon? Who knows.

10) Anybody want a really awesome recipe? It's super yummy. I am making it for the dessert potluck tomorrow at Beaux's. It's Chocolate-Covered Cookie Dough Balls. They are very addicting.