We have a Christmas tree

Game Night

Coziness.

Greenery

Day Off, 1 of 20: Doing some yard work. I mowed the lawn, and now I'm weeding the flower bed by the front window. My Mother's Day shrub has miraculously survived its time next to the kitchen window and I'm ready to give it a permanent home.

Five-minuting is the best. You can't do it for every task, but for weeding, especially on a warm day, yes. For my five minutes off, I set up a spot in the shade:

The baby confetti plant looks so tiny. Hope it will like its new spot.

I've been a very brave girl lately so I bought myself this book:

I checked it out from the library a few months ago - it changed my perspective and inspired me to get busy and transform our backyard. I'm excited to get my copy. Yay Thriftbooks!

GOOD NEWSIES: H was offered a managerial position at a Portland location of his restaurant chain. It's a major step up in income for him! We're so proud and happy for him and A. He's doing great!

Hired

As of July 1, my employment at the college will be permanent. I just signed the paperwork today. Sweet! 

(Prior to this, I've been a "seasonal" employee - longest ten months of my life.)

Also: We're now into anklet season, the best season of all. 

Pick Your Poison

Things have been difficult enough for a while that I have decided to swear off social media platforms, unless my husband and kids are there posting stuff. Then of course I want to see it.

Today's title comes from this morning's session with my shrink. It had been long enough since we talked and enough stuff had occurred that there was plenty for her to advise me about. More than enough, so I told her to pick her poison.

And now I'm just going to keep myself alive. Maybe while I'm at it I'll figure out some way to keep myself out of pain.

Meanwhile: I'm helping make the Christmas ornaments we're giving to all the seniors. 

Sick Day #4

Catness kneads me 

Sick Day #3

Grrrrr. 

I rested all day, again, and texted my supervisor about taking a sick day tomorrow. This cough is going nowhere. 

I spent some time with these two ladies in the backyard. The weather was so nice.

After this, they had a cozy bubble bath and put jammies on, and we went downstairs and they went to sleep pretty early. I played Sims till M arrived. 

Sick Day #2

And it better end with two, that's all I can say.

We had more beautiful weather, but my throat and lungs kept the rest of me in bed all day. Didn't do a thing until Hubby came home with food for me. I ate, and then we took the babies to the playground for a while to tire them out. And tire them out it did. Pop Pop ran them all around that place. 

(M put makeup on Baby R's face earlier - those aren't bruises.)

After giving them a snack and changing them into jammies, I took them downstairs and they fell asleep. I got busy in the sewing room. I sorted out patterns and put away a certain project indefinitely or until I can find the second sheet of instructions (!!!). It's nothing important. 

Thinking about some summer clothes for me:

These are the fabric pieces that might be enough to accommodate the patterns:

I'm eyeballing that cream/orange/green piece pretty hard.

Bad News: The sewing machine shop called today to let me know that the serger is dead. It's not worth the price of fixing. Dang it! Guess I'll have to buy one. I already have the space on the table, so I can't not, right? 

Sick Day

I finally caught the cold my kids were passing around before I left. Durn kids!! I'm spending the day recovering in bed. 

I did catch these cute gardeners out back, however:

While resting, I worked on this project which has taken years (probably a decade) to complete. It will be beautiful when it's finished, but I'm stitching it on linen and it's the hardest thing I've done in a long time.

Up until the above project, this one was the hardest:

Later: Baby time.

I took them outside, on our newly mowed backyard lawn (thanks, Hubby). I noticed that one of our trees is leaking brown gunk from an old burn injury. Not sure how to tackle this. 

In better news, this rhody is having a happy Spring and putting out more blooms than usual. 

Heading Home

Taking these folks with me

You can totally see a resemblance:

One of our several stops:

I survived the trip, but my big "bup" did not. Dang it. Now I need another big bup

Saturday in Caldwell

ROAD TRIP

Working

The entire H clan had a big work day today.

Hubby, M and H had work as usual. I worked my weekly shift AND got some insider info about a possible, more consistent, permanent shift this fall. The job listing will be posted in July. Fingers crossed. 

R made it to all of her classes, despite being sick (a COVID home test result was negative). This is significant since she has an advanced case of Senioritis and skips class regularly. Her grades are great, she has a month left, and she's our last kid, so we're phoning it in at this point. I mean seriously.

B started cooking and food prep at his job today and worked a 10 hour shift. Whew!

And C has a new job today! More details to come. 

Recent library finds (want to buy a copy of the top book):

And, since B received his diploma from Clark yesterday, I did some shopping at work:

After work, I dropped R at home, grocery shopped, picked up Hubby and made The Soup and The Breadsticks (R's request). I bathed and jammied the babies and everyone ate soup and breadsticks and was happy. 

I'm still feeling some level of terrible after yesterday's terrible shenanigans, and shed a few tears at work. But it's healing. 

Tomorrow is a big day. Stay tuned!