Homeschooling is still nerve wracking sometimes, even with a boxed curriculum and my niblings being very calm most of the time I am still nervous the first week every time. It’s been 6 years, but I was also the kid that begged to stay home every year when I was in school myself. I am considering doing some bolstering of the science side of things ( Read more... )

I am finally not sore 7 days out from my Covid vaccination (the Johnson & Johnson one and done). I have been trying to get vaccinated since it became open to me, but I kept getting passively exposed so had to quarantine a lot. My sister’s job at an assisted living facility has been hard on our family. My mother works there some too so it’s even ( Read more... )

Do I even remember how to blog?  

Trying something

I am going to accomplish stuff this year if it kills me!

I bombed out in 2014 keeping a paper list so I'm going to try keeping one here for 2015. I will update as the year goes on. *fingers crossed* I'm not going to keep up with the little kids books this time around or it would be all little kid books.

JANUARY
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America- Barbara Ehrenreich (My first thought ( Read more... )

I don't want to go to work in the morning! I know that since it's my sister's kids and there's only two of them that I shouldn't complain, but it's an early start, a long day, two small kids who need a lot, way under minimum wage pay, and just a lot of little irritations. Plus my sister has to pick me up in the morning because my mother's car broke ( Read more... )

Quick update, just to clear my head of things:

• My aunt is doing okay. She had the mass removed in early November, was supposed to be laparoscopic but had to go to incision (6-8 inches). The mass itself was the size of a softball. She was stuck in the hospital a week because she kept being unwell and her heart acted up. My mother stayed with her so ( Read more... )

( Wish I hadn't )

( Whining under the cut )