Common Ground Coffee House #114

Our brother in law has been staying with us for a little while, helping out in the house and garden. I am making banana pudding as he has never tried it before :thumbs:

 

Good morning! It's so nice and cool outside. It's wonderful!
Breakfast was oatmeal and bacon and coffee. There's this half and half coffee my husband bought. It's half decaf. We're working towards total decaf. Actually I did no caffeine for a couple years and it doesn't bother me, but I don't think he's ever gone without it for a loooonnnng time. He's putting forth an impressive effort!

We still have leftover birthday cake. Our birthdays now cover September, December (two there), January, February, March, and May. Hrm. Think we'll be sick of cake by June? :tongue3:

 

Can you ever have too much cake? LOL!

We're preparing for winter here. The gardens are being plowed under and the quince picked and canned.

I'm homeschooling a gaggle on youngin's. So far so good. But with everything that life throws my way, I'm so tired all the time. In fact, I'm thinking about taking up coffee drinking.

Tonight for supper, chicken and dumplin's.

 

Mmmmm. I've never tried to make chicken and dumplings, but I'll have to look up the recipe and give it a shot! I have a feeling my bunch will really enjoy it.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

 

Is anyone else battling a head cold? UGH! I feel like a zombie.

Anyone want to bring me some chicken soup?

 

Good Morning Everybody,

We are so happy... WE CLOSED ON A HOUSE YESTERDAY!!!!!

We found a 4-bedroom farmhouse with a large kitchen on 5-acres. This will be big enough for everybody. My MIL will be moving in with us to bring the total of people in the house to 7.

I have to admit I was awful anxious about this after what happened the last time we thought we'd found a house [the financing fell through the day before we were supposed to close], but everything fell into place easily.

Now comes the fun of packing and sorting stuff we've accumulated in over 30-years, and going through what my MIL has to see what we're going to take to the new house and what we'll put in storage.

We have some minor work to do before we can move in, but that's no problem.

Hebrews 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

 

Yup, it was all in God's hands, we just had to wait until His timing was right.

My Brother has a riding mower that he isn't using anymore, so that'll be a big help; and my SIL works for a lawn service so he's used to doing jobs like this.

The shock is slowly wearing off...that we have the house and nothing went wrong.

Moving can be a bear, but we're so happy to finally be doing it that it doesn't seem to matter. :thumbsup:

 

Congrats on the house!!!

I'm beginning to feel better----just in time for the kiddos to come down with it. Sigh.

Today I'm making meatloaf and roast potatoes. YUM!!!

As an aside, I made lasagna the other day for the little church in our village (they had never heard of it until they asked me what kinds of foods I like to eat). It was such a hit that the Pastor's wife went to the center store and asked for lasagna noodles. The cashier looked at her funny and said, "What kind of noodles?" She explained a lasagna noodle to her. Then the cashier said she was sure they wouldn't carry them because they would be an expensive import item. ROFL!

So I told the Pastor's wife that the next time I am in town, I'll pick up some lasagna noodles for her. She really wants to try to make it herself. She's nearly 70 and has just now tasted the wonderfulness (I make up my own words. HEEHEE) of lasagna! She's going to ruin it with meat, though. If there is one thing these people like, it's meat----all kinds and LOTS of it.

So if any of you are in my area today, stop by. We'll chew the fat and heft the jug together (in the words of Granny Moses).

 

Congrats on the house Cuz! Happy moving! :laugh:

Spinach, I don't have a head cold but my allergies are killing me!

Blessed Sunday Everyone!

The first grading period of the school year is over for my high schoolers. Cass did fine. Chris pulled it out at the end and will pass all his classes (barely ). Cade needs your prayers though he at least did well on his Algebra exam. I keep hearing one of the kids elementary principals saying "a D is passing", I never thought I would repeat it!

Tomorrow begins the second grading period. I have told them that if they didn't have at least B's by allowance time they wouldn't be getting one! That one gets them every time!

Ya'll have a good week!

 

I painted the family room woodstove today. It desparately needed it, but I just can't get it to look right. The spray kind left it looking patchy so I went and bought the liquid that everyone else uses. Guess what? Still patchy. I don't know if you can get black to look perfect. The more I tried to fill in the low patches, the more patchy it looked. I finished off the paint and called it good. It does look better than before I did it, but it's not how I want it (story of my life, to be honest----that's what I get for being a procrastinating perfectionist). Maybe when we use it the first time since the paint job, it will cure everything to a nice, even shade. One can hope, right?

Got a Hallmark card from a Preacher's wife today. Did my heart good! She was thanking me for a handmade head scarf I sent her, made by one of our widows here. She just loved it. Her words touched my heart so! I'm thankful for that small drink of water.

The electricity in the house was crazy today (brown-out), so we didn't do homeschool. I think I will surprise the kids with evening classes, though. HA! This could be more fun than chores.

Have a good day, Everyone!

 

Painting ANYTHING sounds like fun!

I had another dental visit today. What can usually be done in one or two visits takes me between 3 and 5 because of my TMJ issue. It's become bad enough that my jaw is in danger of locking if they do more than one at a time, and the crown one has had five different visits so far if I counted right! And still no crown on it...I had THREE cavities! THREE! STINKIE BLAH!

I'm still trying out how to do a healthy vegetarian diet for my oldest. I had it down before, but this is a new state and they don't have the normal stuff. Organic or more than the most basic of fresh, natural, simple food seems to be associated with being a liberal out here and is shunned. LOL

 

Good Morning Everybody,

It took all weekend, but we're finally all moved in to the new house. I never realized how much junk, er I mean treasures, we'd accumulated in over 30 years. All the heavy furniture is moved in, and we're slowly going through boxes of the smaller stuff.

I brought in BLTs and Tomato Soup if anybody is hungry. Enjoy.

Time to get back to sorting boxes.

 

After being without an indoor bathroom for a week (remodeling), I am happy to say that our bathroom is once again operational. YAY!

I'll be glad to get my house in order again. We've been doing so much with the necessary repairs, but it sure turns everything upside down to get it done. This place is disheveled (sp?) and DUSTY! Everything should be finished by evening and I can put everything back in order, remove all dust covers, and WASH everything in sight! Then I'm going to take pictures and email them to Mom.

Have a good weekend, y'all!

 

Yay for indoor plumbing! Spinach, when I was very young my family was very poor. We moved into a trailer that had no running water, so we had to take our baths in a creek for a while. I was always afraid I'd get pinched by a crab! I still enjoy and appreciate inordinately long showers and baths. LOL

Life is not all that exciting. We got all the kids to the dentist last Saturday and some were cavity free, one got his work finished, and two others need work done.

I went from college to high school...maybe I can help fix these people before they get INTO college and can't construct a proper sentence or read a paragraph. Friday was my first day, so we'll see how it goes and if I can physically keep up with it. I've got surgery on my thyroid coming up soon and I'm curious to see if that improves how I feel.

Are there any homeschooling families left on the board? There used to be a ton of us, but so many have quit for various reasons. I've been thinking about restarting it for Miss Smarty Pants. She went from home to private school until we started her in public school last semester, but she's still bored. BRAT! lol

 

I'm still homeschooling Gina, though I went from homeschooling an 8th grader to homeschooling a 6th grader! And can I just say how much easier it is to hs a girl than it was the boy who doesn't/won't read? She is flying through everything but math, but to be honest, she's doing 7th grade math and I didn't expect her fly through that. lol

Blessed Sunday Everyone!

 

I'm homeschooling a whole BUNCH of kids. And they're all mine. LOL! I'm not a great teacher, but because it is my responsibility I do it.

The bathroom is finished and so is the wood stove area. So now we're functioning indoors and with heat! YAY!

Started the C25K program this morning. Hope I stick with it!

Have a good day, y'all!