LAID OFF!
Well, today just plain royally stank. Work was rotten, and to cap it all off, at the end of the day they called me into the office and told me they were doing away with my position. Two weeks of severance. Clean out your desk and don’t come back Monday. And on the way home, […]
Arguing Over Household Chores?
When I was married, my husband was laid off three times in five years. When he would get laid off, I would increase my teaching for the Red Cross to help keep some money coming in — leaving him with the kids while I went and worked from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. So I’ve […]
Wishing I Had Gone to Work Today
I have stomach flu, so I stayed home today to protect everyone at work from it. I did some laundry this morning, cleaned the kitchen, and worked on some display products for my next homeschool show (June 5). While I did that, I coached the kids through some of their new Reader Rabbit software, which […]
There’s a Snake in My Boot!
… well, clinging to the end of it, anyway. I’m glad I put on my Wellies last night before I went out to trim the hedges. It felt kind of silly — whoever heard of trimming hedges being particularly dangerous in a suburb? But it’s been raining a lot, and I didn’t want to put […]
I Hate Weekends
I know that sounds really insane, but I always seem to be more tired—no, more exhausted—on the weekends than during the work week. It’s not that I don’t work hard at my job; I do. But somehow it doesn’t generally drain my every physical, mental, and spiritual reserve like the weekends do. Probably I expect […]
A Long Night…But Worth It
I stayed up really late last night…didn’t go to bed until half past midnight, and didn’t get to sleep until around 1 because I kept thinking of things I needed to have ready this morning and having to get up to go get them. I did a lot in just a few short hours. When […]
Snatching Flies Out of the Air….
may sound difficult. But the fact is that these ruddy little flies are all over the house. Darned if I know where they came from, but whacking them out of the air or catching them and smashing them has become our newest pastime here. The kids are running around with fly-swatters, and I go nowhere […]
Weekend Wildness!
Wow! What a weekend that was. I don’t think I stopped to breathe. Got up Saturday morning and fed the kids, moved all the laundry off the couch onto my bed, sorted it, and folded a good bit of it. Dad called and they wanted to store some things in my shed and add some […]
If I Haven’t Lost Ten Pounds This Week….
… then life is profoundly and royally unfair. I left work at 3, went and made a bank deposit for work, then went to my bank and deposited paycheck plus child support, dropped a bunch of checks into the post box, and went and picked up the kids. We went back to my grandpa’s to […]