I can't believe how this year has flown by! I'm sitting in my living room. The kids are tucked in bed. The Christmas tree is glowing as most of the lights are off. "The Voice" is providing me with background music. I just checked and I need to blog 4 times to tie last year's amount. Not sure how I got out of the habit of blogging regularly...perhaps it's just the press of life...and the ease of just checking facebook and getting lost there instead of in blog world?
Today I finished reading "The Women Who Flew for Hitler". It was a very interesting book contrasting two amazing women.
The promised update:
My days are full: homeschooling, laundry, meals/meal prep, driving to a appointments, squeezing in a bit of Young Living business, keeping the books for Randy's business and our personal finances. Randy is busy driving his truck and providing for us and keeping up with the never-ending tasks around the house.
Josiah is working full time and biding his time until he is old enough to get his CDL. Autumn is working hard at her schoolwork (homeschooling) and is an immense help to me at home. Janae is in Jr. High. She loves to read and listen to music, particularly along the lines of Toby Mac and Mandisa. Zach and Mark are both homeschooling with me this year. This makes their schedules much more flexible as we need to work in various regular appointments for both of them. Micah is in 2nd grade and takes pride in choosing to like whatever sports team the rest of us are not cheering for. :-) Baby is a delight to our family...and that's all I'm going to say about that.
Animals...we currently have a dog, 2 steers, and two flocks of laying hens...and older flock and a younger flock.
We have been working at eating healthier. Unfortunately, while I have done lots of research and have great ideas, I'm not as far down that road as I could be simply because it takes time to sit down and menu plan, make grocery lists, and shop. It's a continual struggle and a continual area that I'm working on. I am also trying to make healthier choices for myself (as I sit here eating red & green m&ms). Today I even drank 40 oz. of water! Zach drank 64 oz. In the taking care of me department, I'd also like to get back into walking on the treadmill. I did well for about 4 days, and then stopped again...another thing to figure out how to fit in.
Homeschooling: We are at a new Homeschool Co-op this year. The fall session wraps up this Wednesday. We have been enjoying it! Winter session starts in January. This Co-op has a Performance Night after each semester. So that's this week as well. Otherwise, the kids' schooling is going fine. For the most part the curriculum choices are working out. I probably should've gotten Zach a level more difficult in Math, but I'm hoping to finish this level and then start the next level.
Appointments: We continue to have appointments with various therapists (occupational, speech, psychologists), chiropractors, dentist/orthodontist, doctors (mostly for physicals). We also have the appointments associated with foster care. At the end of the year I like to add up all of the mileage for all of these appointments and see how many miles I traveled!
Young Living: I've "accidentally" ended up with a (very) small business. So I'm trying to support others in their Young Living journey by offering some online classes. Right now I'm doing about 1 class a week, but I will probably take a few weeks off over Christmas. (If you want to learn more about these, you can find links on my
business website or follow my
Facebook page.
Well, this has gotten long enough! I hope to be back and see if I can top the number of posts from last year! :-)
~Karen
