Monday Making Memories

[Nancy]

After lunch CI ~
I have been working.
Cinn. Rolls in crockpot w/ apple excellent! Sending the rest home if they are not eaten by end of the day.
New steps are on.
Railings are going up now.
Did some desk duty.

Next I vacuumed.
Laundry this evening when they are not working by the dryer vent.
I will shower later done.
Crew has left they will be back Wed. to finish up.
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Had dinner
Watering now.
I have been having fun with deck decor.

[Kathryn-in-Canada]

I'm done for the day. Didn't get half what I wanted done.

I did:

.05 - stripped the bed, put the sheets in the washer, watered the plants.

1. go to dd's for 8:30 and took the kids to swimming.

2. played with the kids in the backyard after we got back.

3. had brunch with them and read another chapter of a book to dgs6.

4. emptied the car and swept it out (dsil won't let me use his shop vac to clean my car, grrrr). Wiped it down with ArmorAll wipes, piled the stuff to be moved out for the trip.

5. headed home, stopping at the grocery store to pick up 'vacation cereal' (frosted mini-wheats) for dh.

6. got the deposit back on my soda-stream cannister but the store was out of filled cannisters so I'm down to one cannister and it is almost empty.

7. had dh meet me in the garage and he put the car-seats away in the storage locker while I loaded up the wagon and brought the rest of the things upstairs.

8. put the sheets in the dryer, put fresh sheets on the bed, put out fresh towels and put the dirty ones in the washer.

9. rested and had a snack.

10. went to see if the broken sunshade for the glass roof of the car could be made to fit. It is supposed to twist fold like a pop-up tent and the last time I tried to store it that way, the rim broke. While trying to get it to fit, it poked through the material so I took out the metal rim (I thought it was plastic) and discovered it wasn't broken, it had worked its way out of the crimp casing that attached it. Brought it upstairs and dh and I fixed it.

11. had dinner (dh cooked and cleaned up.) Watched two episodes of TV then finished sewing the hole in the sunshade casing shut.

12. Dh and I installed the sunshade and it is in place just fine.

13. Brought in the cushions off the balcony since they are dry. When they are attached to the chairs, I'm afraid the chairs will blow around too much. That's fine when I'm here but since I'll be away, I have to storm proof the balconies.

Now I'm off to bed. There are fireworks right across the river from me at the hotel there. Must be a wedding.

Tomorrow I will get the last of the laundry done before the trip and pack. I'll also clean the apartment as much as I see fit to do.

In preparation for packing, I did pull out my passport. It expires in 3 months and 5 days. So I've also downloaded the form to renew it.

[lucylee]

Mmmm... I love frosted mini-wheats. The MAPLE ones are absolutely addictive for me. I truly believe I could eat the entire box in one sitting. (I never HAVE, but it's a wonder!)

Dare I ask, Kathryn, why doesn't your dsil want you to use the shop-vac in the car?

I really need to clean our car, too, but that is low-priority this week.
This week (and next) will be crazy weeks:
* both dgrands will spend the night Tues-Thurs (ds & ddil are going to Nashville to celebrate her birthday)
* Wednesday, I am committed to doing the Wonderful Wednesday trip with church, which will include about 1.5 hours (round trip) in church bus and afternoon outdoors at a farm/zoo
* Thursday, dh is committed to doing towel laundry which is always a ridiculous all-day thing... shaking my head...
* Friday, I am committed/halfway promised to take dgrands swimming
* Friday evening, we are hosting ddil's birthday party for family (but all I have to do is clean house to "good enough" condition, & order and pick up cake)
* Friday night, dgd MAY want to spend the night again by herself, but after being away from ds & ddil three nights, she may be ready to go home
* Saturday night, dgs will almost certainly want to spend the night
* Sunday -- church, etc
* Monday -- prep for our one-night trip to Atlanta
* Tuesday/Wednesday -- we will be in Atlanta, and I am honestly looking forward to it, except I always end up driving the stretch from Birmingham to Atlanta, which is very nerve-wracking in mid-afternoon traffic.

Today, so far I have done my QT, Bible reading... weekly chore (2nd load of laundry is in washer now)... zone chore/exercise (ONE HOUR pruning shrubs! I'm counting that as exercise, too.) DH and I also went out for supper.

I slept really, really extremely late even for me, but obviously I needed it. I also had some of the strangest dreams EVER. Suffice it to say, the high light of the dream was getting lost, far from home, while riding a motorcycle with dgd, dh, ds, and myself somehow all on one. and seeing escaped circus animals (monkeys and a lion) at a really rough looking service station where I needed to, but refused to, use the restroom. The low light, LOL, was riding through motorcycle down the halls of a questionable motel and finding an even worse restroom. (I guess the main interpretation would be that I definitely needed to use the restroom by the time I got up?)

I was going to wait until my new habit tracker was a little further along, but I'll go ahead and mention my July "resolutions" here.
I am tracking seven habits:
Bible reading
Exercise
Daily/Weekly Task
Extra/Zone Task
Reading for Pleasure (not counting daily newspaper)
Gratitude Journal
Family Time (not counting when it's just dh & me)
I haven't had even one day where I checked all seven yet, but I'm doing pretty well. It's helping me to stay on track, I think. I use a different color each day & I like seeing the colors fill in.
I'm also trying to be more mindful of drinking water and marking that in my planner.

I need to try to answer an email before I turn the computer over to dh.