Sept 1, 2011
Well. School has begun for Katherine and this year she is attending a local Christian school as an eighth grader. The daily routine is that I drive her to school (6 miles) before 8am and then pick her up again at 3. This gives her a year of junior high in a small Christian setting...and me 6 hours a day of time to persue activites of my own.
I am anxious for next week to arrive. My plan is to be busier than a cranberry merchant three days a week and home for the whole six hours the other two days!!
Beginnning next week
Monday will include: 1.5 hours of lunch duty aide at K's school, grocery shopping, and horseback riding lessons after school or evening depending on the temperature.
Weds will be 4 hours as a serf at my local CSA farm, and 2 hours of music with choir and Womens' Ensemble at church.
Friday will include a couple of hours milking goats with a neighbor lady and K's band practice away from school. Although these days will be full, I am also going to try to schedule all the away-from-home errands on those days too!
Tuesdays and Thursdays will be my home days!!! Looking forward to those. On the at-home-days I am hoping to do a better job of blogging, more letter writing, and to pursue cooking food that is more "righteous" close to the source. I have hopes to make yogurt, bread, hummus, and to work on drying food in the dehydrator.
I also hope to unearth the crock pot and get good at slow cook meals, once again. It used to be (when Daddy was out of town for long stretches of time) that the girls and I would eat dinner when we got home from school. They were starving and I was hungry. We would eat our dinner meal at 3:30-4, then sometimes snack in the evenings. Was a good thing for digestion and for the mom's peace of mind!
Our temps have been over 100 for the last 30 days. It is hard to think fall when you are sweating soo very much. Hope for rain and cooler temperatures soon.
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