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Post by mountainma on May 22, 2024 9:04:24 GMT -6
I'm so happy! My new chair remote came in the mail this morning, so I should get a good night's sleep tonight!
Dd2 is having more trouble and goes back to the Ob/gyn tomorrow. They are getting concerned about possible pre-term labor, so she's home in bed today.
Not much going on here today. It's hot outside, but we are supposed to get rain. I have a few cucumbers and squash to plant but will wait until evening when it's cooler.
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Post by michelle on May 22, 2024 10:10:08 GMT -6
So glad that you got your remote and praying for your daughter
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Post by ginakay57 on May 22, 2024 15:19:26 GMT -6
I wanna shoot some horses but I love them too much, they are beautiful, plus I don't know exactly which ones are guilty. I did see baby poop so I know Tasha was involved. Yesterday I came home from running errands and saw that something had trampled some of the watermelon and tomato plants in the front garden. Found where the fence was broken and saw hoof prints. I fixed the fence the best I could until dh got home. Checked the back garden. Found part of that fence was down, adult and baby horse poop in there. A few tiny pea plants and okra plants eaten (or else that just haven't popped up yet). Fixed that fence also. Only funny thing is that when I got home all culprits were nowhere near the garden and were acting innocent. Dh has fixed the fences better and I think the plants are salvageable.
Also yesterday I went to shut the back hatch on my car without moving my head out of the way. It hurts. Hopefully y'all have better things to report. Lol
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Post by eyeofthestorm on May 23, 2024 5:55:42 GMT -6
Gina, so naughty. We're having a week here. The toilet was broken (Sun night?), D2 fixed it yesterday. Internet went down Tue am, came back but has been wonky since. Not good when you work online. At least DH isn't here dealing with it, too. I totally forgot to plan dinner for Wed. Seriously, I planned Sun, Mon, Tue, and Thurs... it's like I forgot Wed existed. DS2 vounteered to bring something home for dinner. (We had pizza.) The ONLY time I had to take DS3 to grocery shop for his cooking today is... NOW. 7 AM on Thursday. I told him if he's not in the car at 7, he misses his chance. Oh, and when DH called last night, he wasn't entirely happy. He thought he'd booked a flight that would last here at 11:30 AM... but when he went to check in last night, he's landing here at 11:30 PM! I have a more than full day because we are leaving town for a couple days tomorrow and I shifted some lessons from Friday to today. I haven't packed, but I'm pretty sure I have all the clean clothes I need. I checked in with DH about that (I said, so you're coming home to take a nap and then do laundry before leavning with us again?) but he said that all the non-work clothes he has are clean. Oh, what else... DS1 started the semester yesterday. He has a college fund but for some reason, there are fees they can't use that for and we have to pay a fraction in cash each semester. But this semester... he forgot to ask what the amount is. Oops. He has the information now, so we will need to take care of that in between my classes. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining. It's not. I just feel overwhelmed. Have a good day.... ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by michelle on May 23, 2024 8:13:23 GMT -6
Sandra, that is a lot going on.
Gina, that stinks about the plants.
Life is life. Dh took his car in for service today and the tires need to be replaced. They didn't last long at all. He's going to do some research for better pricing. We also need to find an arborist as our front tree isn't looking that great.
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Post by mountainma on May 23, 2024 8:18:35 GMT -6
Wow Sandra, that's a lot to deal with all at once. Hopefully you can catch your breath later today at some point! Gina, at least the fence is repaired and I hope the plants grow back ok.
We are supposed to get rain soon.
I have to run to the store today, hopefully before the rain hits. Dd2 has an ultrasound and another infusion today and dh is helping with transportation, so I can take dd1 to run errands.
Have a great day!
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Post by ginakay57 on May 23, 2024 9:37:52 GMT -6
I picked up my order of 50 chicks from the post office and got them settled in their large cage. They'll be laying green eggs when that time comes. Yesterday I sent an updated photo of the biopsy site to the dermatologist asking if there should be progress on the healing. I started the antibiotic on Monday evening but it's still green.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on May 24, 2024 5:58:07 GMT -6
Gina, what kind of chiceksn are they?
I got through yesterday. The day went all right, just left me quite tired. I took a walk after dinner which is something that I never do. It was really nice out.
Today I have one lesson to teach this morning. The boys have one last practice this morning, and four of us will head off to a tkd competition later today. It's their first regional event. They begin tonight and it continues into tomorrow. What time they'll be done tomorrow depends on whether their group event moves into the next round. Either way, we'll stay there on Saturday and be home on Sunday. DS1 is staying here and will keep an eye on the dogs for us.
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Post by mountainma on May 24, 2024 10:19:57 GMT -6
Michelle, how did your meeting go with the newbie at work?
Gina, I love Easter eggers. They lay such colorful eggs. I sure miss having chickens and all the joy and mess they bring.
Dd2 is not doing well. The doctor has put her on bedrest until further notice. She is just not getting enough nutrition or iron and is severely anemic. They are continuing the weekly iron infusions, but are contemplating giving her blood transfusions if she cannot absorb the iron. They are watching the baby closely for pre-term labor. On a happier note, they did a 3D ultrasound and we got to see the baby's sweet face. I am totally in love! He is so beautiful. He looks just like his daddy. So far he is growing properly, despite all of dd2's problems. He is breech, but he still has time to turn around within the next three months. I just can't stop looking at the ultrasound pics.
I've got to get my own health under control as dd2 will need us now more than ever. I need to make a schedule for helping with meals and such and we plan to help get the baby's room painted and ready. With dd2 unable to work, our son-in-law is trying to pick up weekend mowing jobs to help earn extra money. We will help fill in with some of the household chores.
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Post by ginakay57 on May 24, 2024 13:45:43 GMT -6
Rebekah, I wish you lived close to us. Lenard sure could use some help around here. We'd pay your son-in-law to help with some projects. Sandra, they are "Easter Eggers" so will lay blue or green eggs. I read that I can use thin skewers or stick and electrical tape to splice the broken tomato stems together. Leave it on for at least 10 days. Or if it's broken completely I can put the broken piece in the ground and water well, or put in a glass of water so it can start growing roots. Not all the tomato plants are messed up and not all the watermelons.
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Post by michelle on May 24, 2024 17:08:57 GMT -6
The meeting with the newbie actually went quite well.
Work is insane, to put it nicely. I just keep reminding myself that I just need to make it through 6:00 my time on the 17th.
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Post by michelle on May 24, 2024 17:12:07 GMT -6
Rebekah, I am praying for your daughter, the baby and your health.
I did finish a good book tonight. It is called The Divine Proverb of Streusel and it is by Sara Brunsvold. I highly recommend it.
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Post by mountainma on May 27, 2024 7:27:07 GMT -6
Michelle, I appreciate those prayers so much! Dh and dd1 will spend the day helping the kids again. They need to paint a second coat in the baby's room and continue to unpack boxes and put away items from the move. There is much to be done. I am not up to helping, but will stay home with the dogs.
Have any of you been encouraged by anything in particular lately? In my quiet time the other day, the scripture passage was about how the stone the builders rejected, became the chief cornerstone. I pondered on that quite a while. The builders were the religious "experts" everyone looked up to for spiritual advice and leadership, but they were blind concerning Jesus. Christ is the chief cornerstone, the rock on which everything else is based! It really encouraged me because it proves man (religious leaders) can be completely wrong and our foundation is on Christ, not man. Just wanted to share.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on May 27, 2024 7:44:45 GMT -6
Rebekah, prayers for your daughter, grandbaby, and SIL.
I am tired. We had a good weekend, I guess, overall, but so tired. I can't seem to catch up on sleep.
Friday and Saturday, we were at a taekwondo competition. I think it was overall a very good experience for the boys (not always happy, but good). Friday night were group preliminaries, and I was actually very surprised by our group. It was their first time and I expected to see nervousness. Not a jot. Their performance was just plain tight and well executed. But they didn't make the top three, so they didn't move forward in that category.
Saturday was mostly individual events. For me as a parent, it was an excruciatingly frustrating day. There was a schedule, but when something took longer than expected (which is going to happen), everything got backed up. That's okay, I expected that. But they had a texting system that you had to opt into to know what ring (area) to report to for your event. Except, they didn't use it that way. They had everyone report to a sort of staging area where they then, in turn, assigned them to rings on the fly. AND they only used the texting system five times... in 12 hours. Instead, they made these PA announcements that sounds a lot like the teacher in Charlie Brown cartoons. Grr.
Our school stationed a staff member standing outside the holding area messaging everyone in an app what rings people were going to... but I didn't get these notices because the app signed me out. I didn't discover that until we'd left. DS3 uses the same app for church and he told me the spontaneous thing of getting signed out frm that pp happens to him regularly. Grr again.
The would pull both DS2 and DS3 for ring assignments at the same time, but for one event changed DS3 at the literal last second. By the time I found his ring... he had just finished. He told me later he got there in time to be told to step onto the mat (normally, you get to your ring with anywhere from a few minutes up to ten or more minutes before it's your turn). I was so upset that he didn't have anyone from his family to watch him.
In addition, they did not put DS3 into the 14-17 year old group, even though he's 17. Because he has his birthday in December, he will turn 18 this year... so they put him in the group for competitors 18 and older. DS2 (who is 19) competed against someone who is 42.
I think that the people doing the assigning realized this wasn't quite right for DS3... so for his events, he consistently competed against the same competitor... who was a person who has visible congitive and physical disabilities. DS3 took first place in his events... but really, I don't think he felt good about it. You can feel good about how well YOU did, but it wasn't really fair to the other guy and wasn't really a fair competition.
(FWIW, DS3 was not the only competitor this type of imbalanced assignment happened to. Another student from our school was supposed to compete as a poom belt. A poom belt has different meanings in different types of tkd. In our school, a poom belt has completed all requirements to become a black belt except for the performance test. In other schools, it may be a student who has completed all requirements except for competent self defense, and some schools give poom belts to very young students, holding off for black belt testing until they are teens.). Well, there were zero other poom belt students in the entire competition, so they put him in with the first degree black belts. I don't think it bothered him - he won the two events of his that I watched - but it kind of bugged me.)
Finally, when DS3 was supposed to break boards, his board holders weren't at the ring. They were busy holding boards somewhere else. But part of the parameters of the event is that you have a very limited time to get your board holders (five boards) set up. DS3 was standing on the mat for longer than his set up time plus his alloted breaking time just waiting for them. At first, the judges were looking around (where are your holders?) then they realized the event had two people from the same dojang breaking at the same time, and the holders couldn't be in two places at once. When the judges realized this, they settled down but it unnerved DS3 and I couldn't believe how many breaks he missed. He never misses, and some of these were his easier breaks. His score was so much lower than expected. (Again, because of who he was assigned to compete against, he actually won the single event, but again, he didn't feel good about it.) I could see he wasn't happy when he stepped off the mat and told him right away - I know this wasn't what you wanted, but you handled it. Your mindset was messed up because of waiting, but you stepped up and handled it well. (I wanted to say like a man, but he was already really worked up and I didn't want to push him to lose control of his emotions).
DS2 took it all in stride. He didn't take first place in any of his events, but I am not sure he cares. He was already stating that he wants to go back next year while he was eating dinner.
I plan to talk with DS3 in the next week or so. I feel like he could have accomplished so much more if the deck wasn't stacked against him - not just first place wins, but doing well, getting the scores he knows he's capable of, and getting noticed (really noticed) by the judges. I took note that when DS2 said he wanted to go back, DS3 didn't say anything. But it's all good. DS3 tends to think about things for a while before he commits. And he deserves to think about whether it's worth it for him to do it again.
That was a very long, very exhausting Saturday. Sunday morning we got up, bought some fancy pastries from a local shop to bring home, and drove home in time for lunch. After that, we all (DS1 included) went to a movie. We had homemade pizza for dinner and watched Star Trek. I got the yarn ready for the last set of valances I'm going to stitch.
I didn't sleep well last night - I think I really was over extended on Saturday - but at least I ketp going back to sleep.
If you read all this, bless you.
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Post by MammaMel on May 27, 2024 8:06:24 GMT -6
Sandra that was a long weekend. It definitely sounds like this event was not well put together. The event at my home was likewise not well put together.
It was pool set up day. MJ was out early to paint and then decided to cover up the under house vents with wood. I ended up being his run and fetch it in spite of having my own stuff to do.
Then he couldn't get the new paint sprayer to work. The plan being spray the paint before the boys (Andrew and Chris) arrived for pool set up.
Well that didn't happen and the boys got roped into painting and pool set up. Chris buckled down and got busy. Drew moaned and complained. As my young friend says, he got salty in his language.
Meanwhile inside Charlie wanted funny videos and Gideon found one he says his mom watches with them. It was F this and that. I said oh no you don't not here and found them something else.
At least with Gideon here the lego mess got put away. The doll house still needs fixing but I can handle that today. I put away the Marble toy that Charlie just dumps out and then leaves. Drew says he think he has ADHD. I am thinking a good bit of it is nurture over nature. He needs structure and has none at home.
The pool is up. I have not been in it yet. I just don't have the energy. Here is to a calmer week for all of us!
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