4th Week 17/18

Saturday was a busy, interesting, exciting, and thrilling day. We woke up and Daddy and I ran a couple of errands in the next big town over and then came home. While we were gone the campers had done their chores for the most part (we were to find hidden stashes of dirt later as we were cleaning). Then Daddy and I spent the majority of the rest of the day cleaning the house, removing carpet tiles that just caught the rabbit mess and made it heck to clean up, taking some building supplies out of the house to the trash, and generally making our house a lot more clean. We were surprised late that evening by our eldest daughter calling and saying that she was here in Michigan. We drove out to meet her and have her follow her back to our house and didn't get home until around three in the morning.

On Sunday we tried to wake up early to get to Grandma and Papa's church, but that just wasn't going to happen. We actually woke up a bit too late for mass at our own church. BUT, we spent some time together with our daughter, son in law, and granddaughter. We did a little scrapping around our house, then loaded up the girls (including our granddaughter) and did a little more scrapping down by Grandma and Papa's house, finally we visited with Grandma and Papa for a bit (where our daughter and son in law met up with us). After that Daddy took our son in law and ECJ back out scrapping again while all of us girls came back to the house. We did manage to stop by a park while we were out with the girls scrapping. I made a chocolate poke cake with chocolate/raspberry frosting for desert this night. We had Daddy's chili this night for supper.

Monday Daddy had to go to work first thing in the morning, the campers and I did lessons while Daddy was at work, and of course laundry was done. After lessons we did some more cleaning, ECJ and our son in law took apart scrap with Daddy as soon as he got home ... and then Daddy and I ran to the scrap yard. After we got home and relaxed for awhile Monkey (my eldest daughter) made homemade chicken nuggets and mac and cheese for supper for everyone but Daddy and I. Daddy and I had fried zucchini for supper this night.

On Tuesday we spent most of the day relaxing after lessons, chores, and baths for all of the girls in the house. We ate leftovers for supper this night and Daddy and the guys replaced the back breaks on the truck. All in all it was a pretty easy going day. Wednesday went pretty much as expected, we took the day off of lessons because Daddy was in and out of the house most of the day and hanging out with us ... so we took advantage of it. Daddy and I ate fried zucchini and some tomato/onion/cucumber salad for supper. Bed time has been a process of staggering SweetPea (my granddaughter) and the girls bed times because they're all sleeping in the same room.

Thursday we did lessons right after chores and breakfast. Lessons didn't take very long and Daddy was home pretty quickly from work. We picked up the girls from the house and went scrapping, stopped at a park and played and did a nature study of fall leaves (from Exploring Nature with Children) for our nature study this week. We got home relatively early and picked up pizza for supper, gave the Peanut her medicine, made sure that YCJ took her medicine, and then the campers watched Despicable Me with Monkey and her husband while SweetPea went to bed.

On Friday we didn't do lessons again. Monkey took me to my doctor appointment and then we cleaned the house while Daddy was at work and ECJ and Monkey's hubby took apart the scrap. When Daddy got home he and I went to the scrap yard. We stopped at a couple of stores on the way home and then Daddy picked up Monkey's hubby (he'll get a nickname next week lol) and took him to pick up more scrap from a customer. Monkey and I took SweetPea to the store with us to pick up pull-ups and some yarn ... we left the campers at home to relax. Soon I'll be making baked chicken legs and some green bean casserole plus some corn for supper and we'll be following our new nighttime routine.

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