September 27-October 3, 2020

 

September 27-October 3, 2020

 Thrive Restarts, Rainy & Cold, Canning, and Bible Study

Hello Friends!

I felt better this week and was able to get back to being productive again.  I only had one migraine day this week.  Dd and her boyfriend celebrated their one-year anniversary of dating.  My, what a complete change in my life since we let her go on her first date a year ago; I never imagined I was giving blessing to losing my Dd so quickly and completely.  It has been such a surprise to me how much all our lives have changed as a result.  I’m happy for her to grow up, but thought it would be a gradual experience.  I also didn’t expect it to be such an assault against me personally. She has really decided to separate herself from me completely to become her own person, to be an adult, but with no tenderness or grace.

Thrive Bible Study Begins:

Monday night our church’s women’s Bible study began again!  We are doing Genesis by Jen Wilkin this whole year, two workbooks.  It was great getting to meet the ladies in our circle.  I’m looking forward to trying my best to love these ladies and try hard to be the best leader I can be.

Close the Pool and hot tub:

Even though we didn’t open the pool this year, because we found it had a leak last year, we still had to repeat the process of closing it once again to ensure it would be winterized with fresh antifreeze.  This year for the first time it wasn’t such a hard process and didn’t take very long to do!  I guess we are getting better at it.  Dh closed down the hot tub this week too.  We found it has a leak too, so we closed it down earlier than we had to.

House:

Dh fixed and replaced the stairs on the back deck.  Over the past few weeks, Dh has been fixing up the old picnic table and this week he completed the woodwork and started painting it.  He also put back up the garage lights that we had to take down when we painted the house.

Canning:

I canned green beans this week and have more tomatoes in the crock pot cooking down to paste.

Dd’s Progress:

She had her drug test for Walmart this week.

German: DuoLingo: 7 sessions = 1:15 hours

Biology: Apologia: 5 sessions = 1: 15 hours

Physical Education: 6 sessions = 5:00 hours

Reader: Blameless  by Gail Carriger: Completed:  7 hours