Let's see.... family things still in the works include....
finishing up the garden, although we still have a pepper plant and some brussel sprouts left. DH has cleaned up the rest. Hopefully, next year the "late blight" disease wont get our tomatoes..... He has also cleaned up the flowerbeds, and gotten the chimney ready for winter heatin! We got a deer last week, that was processed and has blessed our (almost empty) freezer. DH did that too.... :) He is soooo good to us!
Me? I started a new job, left the old one, rather unexpectedly (when it was discovered I was leaving, they let me go, but said I quit...) Huh. Anyway, I've been busy with training and paperwork and such with my new job, so I am learning, however slowly. It's ok, cause I was hired in for a RN position, but am training for it now, so when I graduate, I will already have my job waiting for me!
School is going well. We're almost finished. December graduation! Yea! I'm in the finishing stages of Psych rotation right now, which is fairly interesting......
DD15 is doing well in her school. having some trouble keeping up with quizzes and such. but Dad and I are strict on that. Homework is first... no matter what. She tries to grump out of it every once in awhile, but I check her grades online every AM, so a D or below earns her a kitchen table seat for that evening with that subject in front of her. Needless to say, this method is working pretty good...
DD16 is another story. She isn't in PS... she won't learn, she refuses to even try HS, wants to sleep till 12 and stay up all night. Is quite sure her 12 hour a week job will carry her through in life. Stubborn as a mule, and needless to say, DH and I spend a great deal of time in prayer......
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Enough of that! Things here at Hatfield House are normal as always.... money is scarce, but love is plentiful, so we are all good.....
We got a free mini laptop that I am working on now, so we can return the one that DH rented for me until we got the desktop fixed... so now we can return the rented one, and use this one and save money until we can get the big one fixed. That'll save a little bit anyway. Actually, a lot.
Have a few things in mind for Christmas coming.... how about you? What are you doing to prepare for he holidays coming up?
What about some good money saving ideas? Heaven knows we could all use that these days!
~Blessings!~
Well there you are! Hadn't seen you post in a while and was starting to get worried. So glad about the new job and the deer! Those are some great blessings. Daughters can be such a challenge, can't they? I firmly believe they are more mentally taxing than boys. Mine just turned 13 and I have to admit I'm feeling a bit apprehensive as to this new direction in my life as a parent! Lots of prayer ~ the only way to get through it all.
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Ah yes 15 & 16 such lovely years aren't they :) My niece is still 16 but fingers crossed and lots of prayers it appears she is coming out on the other side of this spell.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new job -- Lord knows you're doing a job I couldn't do, well wouldn't want to maybe. Blood, needles, no way :)
As for Christmas, I'm making a lot of gifts as many as I can at least. I've posted a few ideas on my page
Sandra