A Little Update

Looked at the blog this morning and realized I hadn’t posted in a while. Too much going on and not enough time to pull some thoughts together. Head colds and ear infection (for mommy), a messy house since I didn’t have the energy to clean or get the children to do their regular jobs.

Anyway….

The snow is finally melting and the yard looks…horrible! Brown grass, mud, puddles and a sad flotsam and jetsom of small objects dropped by the children and covered by accumulating snow. Got some work to do there.

Another week or so should see it all gone and I’ll be fertilizing and liming as soon as the ground has thawed enough it won’t wash away before absorption!

Inside we are almost done with school. Another month should see everything but Handwriting and Math complete and I like to continue those at least a couple of days a week through the summer. Probably add some Nature Study and Art in as well.

Churchwise:

We’ve gone through RCIA and ?joined the Catholic church on Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil. Pretty exciting and a much different journey than I expected. The things I expected to bother me haven’t and in many ways I find this a coming home to a home I didn’t know I was missing. I’m still sorting it all in my head, but will probably write about it at some point.

We still need to baptize the children and do a few other things but that will probably happen over the summer, we’re still debating whether to do all five at once or split things up. Maybe the little boys one day and the big children on another day with Number Five having his/her own date….

Number Five is due in about six weeks and oddly for us we’re still debating names. Girl names are easy we’ve had several that we like since Mouse was born but boy names are harder to come by!

I’m trying to get things tidied and organized, redo the basement into more of a family room, do some precooking for the freezer so my big kids can help with meal prep. Little things to make May and June a bit easier with a new little one to figure out.

Jack is so excited about the baby. His birthday is about week before Number Five is due and says “It’s my birthday present!” He brings his animals to “say hi to the new baby” nearly every day and is concerned that the baby have something like his “Eeyore” for its own.

 

I’m working on putting together some thoughts for next year’s schooling as well as our “holiday tasks”. Got at least two road trips planned as well as a LOT of outdoor activities to take advantage of the weather before winter comes again.

We’ve put a contract to buy on the house we’ve been renting, and plan to close in a couple of weeks so I’ve been making lists of things that need to be done maintenance wise and things that can wait a bit.

There’s some termite damage and rot from water that will need to be done pretty quickly and will take a professional but a lot of the work needs time more than skill and can be puttered at over the summer. I’m foregoing a garden this year in favor of making a good garden plan in consultation with my neighbor who is a landscaper, and getting the grass back into really good shape!

Lots going on and plenty to keep me occupied and not writing but I’m hoping to get back to regular writing again soon…

 

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