September 14, 2009

• Where Did Monday Go?

  I'm just sitting down at my desk to type and it is almost 6:00pm!!!  Where in the world did this day go?!!

  I've already taught school, cleaned up around the house, gone to my radiation treatment, saw the doctor's nurse, rode home, started dinner and did a load of laundry!  No wonder I'm a little tired!

  I got a few things done around the house this past weekend.  I found someone who wanted our older glasses.  Their removal has left room in my cupboard and someone happy they don't have to buy new water glasses! 
                  

  I also cleaned the whirlpool jets in our tub.  I honestly can't remember the last time I cleaned them.  Granted, I don't use the whirlpool very often!  It felt good to know the tub was clean, inside and out!
               You just pour dishwasher detergent into the water and turn on the jets!  How easy is that?!

  We are getting into the swing of homeschool again.  I was a little unhappy with our start, but, maybe it always starts out rocky and I'm just not remembering well.  Luci is excited about her new books this year and Rissy is trying hard to finish last year's books!  For now, they are all in the same books in all subjects - just different pages!
      
  Annamarie                                                                           Luci

  Rissy is one of those people who works better with her tongue sticking out!
                      
                                   Her profile looks so much like me when I was her age!
                                   The only difference is that my hair was never as thick!

  Last night, I pulled out all of my "extra" homeschool books.  Right now, I am relying on those to supplement their daily schoolbooks.  I'm not up for long discussions and drills.  I'm doing well just to get through teaching school and still come out on the other end breathing!!!  I found a TON of good material to act as "homework" after class.

     See the piles of books I found?  They are actually in "a type" of order there on the table!!!!

  It will soon be time to say good bye to many of my appliances.  We bought everything yesterday at Best Buy.  We got good prices with discounts and 36 months with no interest or finance charges!!!  We won't need 36 months, but that certainly will be an easy "minimum payment" if we every have to make one!

  Our dishwasher has run forever and ever.  Yesterday, we purchased a new one just like it.  I'm so pleased with its performance and it hasn't died yet!!!!  It doesn't match anything else in the kitchen and it smells funny when it runs.
                                   

  Bye bye to the washer & dryer and the range, too!  All of the new appliances will arrive next Sunday.
       

  We are buying black with stainless trim.  Or, stainless with black trim!!!!  I didn't want stainless, but it all started with the great deal we found on the range. 

  For what we wanted, we figured it would be somewhere around a $1500 purchase - and it would have been.  Except for the fact, there was a stainless and black one with a scratch (or ding) on the side and it was marked down to $800.  How can you turn down a self-cleaning, CONVECTION oven with five burners range for less than $1,000?  We couldn't, so we went with the stainless/black look. 

  That meant a stainless dishwasher, too.  Not exactly my favorite, but EVERYTHING was discounted way below the usual price and we bought the best we could afford.  The washer and dryer happen to be stainless, too. 

  I'll post pictures once the new stuff arrives and is hooked up.  We'll have to wait for our heat/air/plumber friend to install the gas range.  MEANWHILE . . .

    I'm simmering tonight's chicken in an electric skillet and a big covered skillet on the stove's burner!  I'll definitely be glad again when I can bake in the oven!  This is a lot of mess to clean up!!!

  I had a nice surprise, today, while I was teaching school.  There was a knock on my door.  By the time I got to the door, the person was gone.  I saw (through the peephole) a car by our mailbox and assumed it was the mailman (ours don't drive mail trucks, since we are serviced by rural carriers).  When I opened the door, I found a gift sack on my door mat and saw my "secret support pal" driving off.  I waved at her.  I've never met her - only talked on the phone and received sweet gifts at my door or in the mail.  She is such a dear and was there for me at one of the scariest times.  Those few days when I literally was so sick I thought I was dying - the 3 days before my last chemo treatment.
                         
       
                            This is what was in the sack.  A reminder to "Give Thanks" - and I do, daily!
                                            I placed it on the marble chest in the foyer
                                                with my fall leaves and pilgrim bear!

  Speaking of the marble chest in the foyer and fall leaves . . .
   
                                   
                                Stormy isn't eating the new floral arrangement of leaves!

  Over the weekend, our weather was deliciously cloudy, cooler, and rainy.  It feels more like October, rather than September!  I'm SO VERY ready for fall and all the cooler season will bring!
      
                                                         My kitchen wall calender.

  Jesse and Annamarie have gone to Sam's to get *I don't know what* and I'm not sure Jesse knows, either.  I think he has cabin fever!!!  He didn't work today, because of the rain, and it's looking like tomorrow may remain too soggy.

  The other two girls have finally finished their school work.  I didn't give them too much, they just drug it out, making it last all day!  I have 8 more radiation treatments and then we won't have to leave in the middle of every day and interrupt what we are doing.  I'll be glad in more ways than that!

        
                                                      Luci.  Thinking AND smiling!

  Be Blessed  ~

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