Big News Weeks!

Saturday the campers and I basically hung out together all day long. The weather was cooler so we went for a short walk, I went through all of my clothing, YCJ went through all of her clothing, we watched more of Netflix's Series of Unfortunate Events, and had breakfast for supper. Peanut slept in bed with me again this night because Daddy was still on his road trip to bring Monkey back home from her excursions away from home. I will say that it is a VERY good thing that I have a king size bed because Peanut literally spun around in her sleep like the hands of an analog clock!


Early Sunday morning, we're talking around 6:30 AM, Daddy surprised us by showing up early with Monkey!!!! The whole house was up and excited to have them both home.... although ECJ did go back to sleep for a while because he'd been up the night before unable to sleep. Monkey, Peanut, YCJ, and myself walked to the store after doing a few things around the house to pick up some ingredients that I was missing for our chosen supper (sour kraut and sausage with mashed potatoes ... I had 0 potatoes in the house and I also wanted some melon). In the mid afternoon Daddy, Monkey, and I ran to the dollar store for a few items that were on a must have list that we'd run out of (remember that I don't drive), did a touch of scrapping on the way home, and when we got back two of the three of us took a nap for about an hour. Supper was at 6 PM, meds were at 8 PM, and everyone was in bed around 11 PM. It was a good, laid back, restful day.

Noni came out Monday morning with her cooler filled with goodies for a picnic lunch!!! The campers, Monkey, and I went with Noni to a nearby inland beach (please remember that Michigan is a peninsula surrounded by large COLD lakes, so when we say inland we mean NOT one of the Great Lakes)!! The lake was like bathwater, which meant that Noni and I actually joined the campers in the lake! Of course, we ate lunch and hung out for awhile before hand. Everyone had fun splashing, swimming, and wading. We were there for several hours and I burned on my back and shoulders even though I had sunscreen on ... yes, redhead curse. We then moved over to the other side of the lake where there was a nice playground and pavilion and relaxed, chit chatted, and hung out for awhile. Daddy showed up for a bit and hung around with us. I didn't write down what we ate for supper after Noni left... not that it's really all that important.

Tuesday Daddy, myself, and all three girls got up early and headed out to a house in another town about an hour and a half from where we're living currently. This is the house that we'll be moving to probably before the end of the month! We met a contractor there and then started cleaning the house. It's been sitting for a few years so it needed the walls and ceilings washed to prep for paint, the kitchen had been left a total mess, and we needed to take some garbage to the curb. So, we spent the majority of the day doing just that. After we left (half the house ready for paint and vacuuming) we went to a town here in Michigan called Frankenmuth to walk around, buy some fudge (ooo YUMMY! So, not on my diet!), and have a meal of Zender's famous chicken dinner family style. It was like Thanksgiving only with turkey and nothing ever runs out unless you don't want more of it. We did this to celebrate Daddy and my 11th wedding anniversary coming up this Saturday and to celebrate the buying of a house! We drove home and hung out for several hours with NOBODY going to bed anywhere near normal bedtimes!

On Wednesday everyone was up between 8 and 9 in the morning. Daddy and Monkey were going to go do some work for one of Daddy's clients to help with scrap. I stayed home with the younger campers and did laundry (we had three loads of laundry backed up because I hadn't done laundry pretty much all week!). I could have done school with the Cracker Jacks and Peanut, but decided against it for this week. We may not do school next week either, or we may take the entire rest of the month of July off to move. I sorted through homeschooling books, making sure that we were only moving what really needed to go with us. (I would end up sorting through them again.) ... the rest of the day was mostly unremarkable.

Thursday through Sunday we spent much of the time scrapping, finding the right hitch for Daddy's truck, and going back and forth to the new house getting things ready. I crocheted, the younger girls made videos, ECJ worked on his coding, and Daddy and Monkey kept busy doing work to the truck and scrapping.

Monday all of the girls, along with Daddy and I, got up early and got ready for our day. We had to run a load to the scrap yard first thing and then go to the bank. After the bank we picked up Peanut and YCJ (who are not allowed at the scrap yard because of their ages) and headed out to the new house to work on some things. We spent about an hour and a half out there cleaning the main living area and Daddy and I had to do some paperwork with the representative of the owner ... you know, all the wonderful paperwork that goes along with buying a house (we had to finish it up). After getting back home we left for a short grocery trip and to grab some movies from Redbox. The younger kids watched one of the movies after supper (which was S.O.S. ... or chipped beef on toast) and the adults relaxed in my room and tried to watch the three movies that we'd rented ... we ended up falling asleep after starting the first one three times (Daddy actually watched that movie and said that it wasn't as good as it was hyped up to be). Don't worry, the campers were in bed before the adults fell asleep.


So, Tuesday morning dawned with Daddy and Monkey heading back out to the new house. ECJ was supposed to go with them but he'd ended up staying awake way too late the night before playing video games and wouldn't wake up easily so they left him be. I woke up and drank a couple cups of coffee and ate a yogurt. The campers all woke up and had cereal before doing some basic chores. Then I whipped out our language arts and math books and we did two days worth of work this day. I scheduled out a week's worth of lessons for next week as well (though I'm not sure we'll actually do them next week or if we'll just fit them in as we can). ECJ helped tote out books to a donate bin we had outside, I listed some of our history books for sale on Facebook marketplace, and ECJ ran the vacuum really quickly. Peanut chose a cartoon to watch while YCJ worked on a music video and ECJ worked on his coding. After Monkey and Daddy got home I went with them to load up some scrap from a client. Supper this night was hot dogs and eggs. I'll have to start packing soon so that we can get the move accomplished rather easily. At least things are organized now. I spent the evening after supper (other than passing out meds and doing our bedtime routine with the girls) crocheting ... just working on a little project to help me relax.

Wednesday and Thursday nothing amazing happened. We didn't do school. We DID do some scrapping. We didn't go to the new house. The kids didn't do any book lessons. Life was pretty relaxing. I did crochet. Meds were passed out and sleep was had.

On Friday everyone woke up rather early. We had a busy day ahead of us. It started with the clean up of a camper being scrapped, loading of the truck with scrap, and then following a wrecker to the scrap yard that was towing our broken down old camper from a client. 3 loads of scrap really quickly all went to the scrap yard. The campers all hung out around the house while we did this. After getting those three loads done we spent the rest of the day relaxing because we knew what Saturday would hold...

Saturday we again woke up early (ish) and went to the client's property. Another load of scrap was put inside of the truck and taken to the scrap yard. Then the girls, Daddy, and I loaded up a trailer full of things and took it out to the new house in the afternoon. We had Wendy's for lunch (late since it was near three o clock) and I made just fried potatoes and mac and cheese for supper because we'd all eaten so late. On Sunday we didn't go to mass because we had to finish the job for our client. All garbage cleaned up out of the storage units and put into the trash, scrap brought home for Monday's load, then went scrapping and picked up three fridge's and a stove plus a bunch of little stuff. A fridge slipped and hit Daddy in the sternum and then came down on Monkey's arm causing some deep muscle bruising and a sprain. We came home and everyone took a nap which was followed by supper that Daddy made: bbq fish, butter noodles, and broccoli and salsa con queso! It was really really good! I'll be finishing this post now and will start again with notes tomorrow. So excited for our new house!!!!

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