August 11, 2007

  • What's "Normal"?

    In my last post I said we were trying to get back into our "normal" routine after being away from home for 10 days. Well, here's what my week has looked like so far:

    Monday- washed twelve loads of laundry, went with my dad to see the vocal chord specialist, ran several errands, made a big pot of clam chowder and invited my folks over for dinner.

    Tuesday-brought Isaac to work at 5 a.m. then went to work out, went with my dad to see the stomach specialist, went through the mound of snail mail and e-mail that had piled up while we were gone, paid bills, and returned phonecalls.

    Wednesday-the kids and I worked ALL DAY on pulling nails, burning wood, harvesting and weeding the garden, mowing the lawn, etc.

    Thursday-thoroughly cleaned the house in expectation of our company from California (Jim's brother and his wife and their three kids), went to town with Seth so that he could buy two digital cameras (one for himself and one for Isaac) and so that we could do our big Costco run. Randy and family arrived and we had dinner, showed them the remodel progress and stayed up and talked.

    Friday-french toast, sausage and cantaloupe for breakfast. Randy and family left at 11:00 a.m. and then all the men folk hit the remodel hard while the women folk started packing to go to college with Cassie. Busy day making sure the guys would have enough meals while we were all gone. Salmon-going-away-dinner for Cassie. Grandma and Grandpa came and Rachel showed up a bit later. Cassie made a blueberry torte for her going away dessert. It was nummy!

    Today (Saturday)-We four girls left home at 5:00 a.m. and met Uncle Benny for breakfast at 9:00. Had a great time with him before heading to the Costco nearest the college to buy stuff for Cassie for the year. We are now at the college and have already made several trips up and down three (!) flights of stairs to get Cassie moved in. She will be R.A. on the fourth floor so she will be getting her exercise all year! Next we are heading out to Walmart, then out for Thai food and then a long walk. We are looking forward to a great weekend before saying good-bye to Cassie Monday morning.

    After that, maybe things will return to "normal"...

Comments (19)

  • It's been really busy! I'm glad we're probably getting close to normal. = D I'm not sure what normal is though. We have a lot going with the remodel. Hopefully the boys and Dad get a lot done.

    Nice post! Love you!

    Abigail

  • I don't think thing will ever be normal again... But then that will be normal...

  • What's so special about "normal"?

  • Great "newsy" post, by the way!

  • Isn't the WWW just great! You can be down in Oregon, 6½ hours from home, and you can still post on your blog and get 4 comments in 11 minutes! We miss you. (and Natasha, Cassie and Abigail). And yes, we did get a lot of dirt dug out from under the house today. Seth took LOTS of pictures of the progress too. Love you!

  • Normal's overrated.  Go for unique.

  • I'm beginning to realize that I don't have a choice! Life just sort of sweeps me along. But it is a good life...

  • heheheh - normal IS such a fluid term, isn't it?  I remember those days of being so busy that you don't even know what normal for you is, because everyday is so different.  You homeschool, too, right?  Ah well, just enjoy the time, watching your kids grow - oh, did I say, don't forget, in all the busy-ness, to sit back and watch your kids.  What a blessing they are.  One day, they will be out of the house, and you will miss all of the chaos.

    Have a great week-end with your daughters.

  • Yes, that site's just where I can post the horses for sale pics.  I don't update it but when people want me to email them pics I just send them there instead.  Loads easier than hunting down pictures and emailing them.

  • Yeah, normals not what everyone thinks it is. Normal is what everyone thinks it isn't! :)

  • it's nice to hear the update about Cassie

  • There are periods in life when normal is everyday being fairly predictable and there are periods when normal is everyday being unpredictable. Both are good periods so why is it when we're in one, we always want the other.Until we've had it for awhile. Lessons in contentment to be learned I guess.

  • Oh! I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining! I am totally content with my life. I just like to make a big deal of things. It's part of my gregarious personality. I wouldn't trade my situation with anyone no matter how much they paid me. :)

  • No. sorry! Didn't mean to suggest you were. I was generalizing. And sometimes we talk that way loosely even when we are fine with things as they are. I have a friend just got one daughter married off in March and now has her other daughter getting married in November. She's loving the excitement but she also says she can't wait for things to get back to normal. She's not complaining either.I'm in a things are predictable phase right now myself. I could tell you pretty much exactly what's going to happen everyday this week.  It's what happens when you only have two kids and one of them's gone and the other is working.  I will be home everyday taking care of my daily chore list and making sure everybody else's comings and goings go without a hitch. So far I'm still going to the scrapbooking weekend. If it wasn't for that I probably won't even leave the house except to take Claire to work twice. And that kind of predictablness is just fine right now because it's all my poor body can handle. The spring was alot of unpredictalbleness and I need some downtime.

  • Whew! I was hoping that was the case. Is it okay though if I tell you that my legs are REALLY sore from going up and down three flights of stairs at least a dozen times? I'm not complaining, just commenting...:)

  • My mom likes to say that "normal" is just a setting on a dryer! 

    Our family experience has been that life never truly returns to "normal," whatever that was in the first place...

  • The author of Wives & Daughters is Elizabeth Gaskell.  I like it very well, but I like North & South even better.  The book W&D was unfinished when she died, so the movie makers made their best guess as to her intent for an ending.

  • If you discover what "normal" is, let me know! If "abnormal" contains all the wonderful food you ate this week, I think I like it better than "normal."

    Thanks for your prayers!

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    thanks prayer is most definitely what she needs. i dont think i can reach her any other way, especially since she doesn't even near me anymore.

    you guys should come to the Trinity Fest one of these years!! it's amazingly fun unfortunately, i dont have that many pictures because... uhh... i don't have a camera so i steal other people's pictures

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