This Week at Our House # 17

I can't believe I am so late on this.-- basically a whole week. I started it on Monday and then just never got back to it. The year is ticking on. I can't believe we are already in May. I really thought things would be much different for us this year. John is still job hunting. Everything is still the same, except that now we have to start paying housing for Ruth for college. We went to the Temple this week at that was very nice and helpful.

Just like with regular school, the home school kids and myself are all getting burnt out from the school year. I know I will always do a summer vacation. I just need those two months to recoup.

Ruth was just about to be hired as a waitress until she said she needed Sundays off and then they said, sorry, we won't hire you. It's pretty discouraging. She needs a job and we need her to have a job. But maybe John will be getting a job somewhere else and we will just be moving on anyway. I feel like we are gypsies. I have moved so much my adult life that I don't have any physical ties to any one place.

Kate is working on speed reading to prepare for her next attempt at the ACT in just over a month. Kate was called as the Laurel's president and has a lot of responsibility with that. I am on the relief society activities committee and am finding that is a lot of  effort too. We never had much to do in our North Salt Lake ward. In fact, in the five and a half years we lived there, I had a calling less than half of that. I had gotten used to having to do nothing for church and now I am trying to get back to not feel put out by being asked to do things.

Johnny and Adam had a scout camp out. Johnny got two tick bites. I asked if he had used the bug repellent and he said that he forgot they even had it. Adam was so excited about the scout camp out, he asked me what time it was about every 20 minutes the day of.

I took the 7 youngest kids to a nature park. There was a big board with park rules and one of the rules was no swimming. Joseph walked into the water and Rachel told him to get out because there is no swimming. Joseph just said, that the sign said no swimming, but it did not say no going into the water and he was just in the water and not swimming. Then he started to walk further and further in until there was a bit of a drop off that surprised him.

Arwen wanted a computer that Joseph was using so she tried to hit him. I gave her a warning and she stopped. Then she came up to me and told me that Joseph was being a monster and asked if she could take care of that for me. Ummm... no. So then she tried to convince Joseph, who was wearing wet clothes to go and change. That didn't work either. Poor Arwen, she did not get a chance to play the computer that day.

This Week's Pictures

I have several kids who always want fried eggs with no yolk. I think they are weird.