Not only are the days and weeks flying, but the year is going by at warp speed as well. Is it just me? Is anyone else losing time hand over fist?
I wanted to focus all my energy on school last year, which left little time for blogging. I did write a post about homeschooling which helped me organize my goals and solidify the trajectory of our year. While intended to be the "September" post, that's all the further it went. With a few tweaks I should be able to post it soon.
I hit the ground running with projects this spring and, as always, had high expectations for the speed and efficiency that we "could complete the planned projects with." Oh the folly. I'm a good one for setting myself up for disappointment. I must be getting old, because my enthusiasm for most projects had pretty much fizzled out by late July.
Another sign of my senility: I have a handy notebook which works much like my frontal lobe is supposed to. Quite often if I fail to refer to this notebook I forget such mundane things as needing to hop in the shower before noon or that I need to boil eggs if I plan to make potato salad.
Kitchen Reno was at the top of this year's to-do list. The kitchen progress is a post all it's own, and I'll leave the sundry details there, but it put a major hitch in the giddy-up of our summer. Other projects to make the list, yet unfinished, are painting the back of the garage (hopefully when it's not 90+ degrees), finish painting the back room, and finish painting the stairwell. Lots of finishing needed around here.
The garden got off to a rocky start this year. I did so well getting it planted and then got busy and failed to put the fence up in time to stop the rabbits. They feasted on my kohlrabi, lettuce, cucumbers, and spinach and were starting on the beans when I got around to fencing. The lettuce I replanted never came up. The cucumbers I replanted got blight, and the tomatoes have it now as well. The radishes were super hot so no one wanted to eat them. The pepper plants are itty bitty and have strange burn spots on the leaves. And stem borers got into at least two of the zucchini plants--thankfully there were six more as back-up! Ha! The kohlrabi are finally now forming bulbs. We harvested a healthy crop of about 90 garlic bulbs and canned six quart of pickled asparagus. And family has been so generous as to supply us with what our garden is lacking. I plan on saving as many seeds as I can this fall in the event they may be hard to find in the spring.
Gavin took football and track last school year. We skipped little league this year so the boys could get their swimming lessons done in June. After the hectic school year we had and stressful spring I needed to take some things off my plate. We stayed close to home and took some short road trips...took the kids swimming, found a new favorite supper place when we have the means to splurge, and Eli and I found the place we want to be put to rest at the end of our journeys.
Two weeks before Easter we found out Mom had an aggressive form of uterine cancer. Surgery, radiation, and chemo followed. It will be a long road of watching and praying when chemo is over and I would appreciate prayers for her.
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