Category: Journal
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Spending time
Work was drudgery today. By the time I got home I had no emotional energy left. Thankfully my reaction was to sit down when the boys were asking me to play Uno. We ended up having a nice half hour together and then Savannah and I went to the library with Noah and Ezra for…
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Refining expectations
I have been disappointed over the last couple of days with how fractious and fairgrounds many of the kids have been. I knew that we were in the middle of a stressful as didn’t adjustment with moving Laura back in but their behavior was worse than expected. The three boys were sticks throughout church today…
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Running in fumes
It feels like everyone is running thin on energy today. We need to keep pushing some tomorrow even a we tried to not push harder than was wise today.
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Laura is home!!
The amount of work we put in today was further proof that Laura coming home yesterday wasn’t truly an option. I got all of Alyssa’s stuff out of her room and set up the table distress plus I laid carpet pad in the downstairs hallway that had been bare concrete and Savannah painted the kids…
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Almost reunited
We tried to have the house ready for Laura to return today but when she finally came over she was disappointed by the progress we had made. Thankfully she began ordering our efforts and we made great strides. By the end of the day things looked much better even though there are still a couple…
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Working vacation
I get my second 5-day weekend of the last 3 weeks. I have a lady list of things to do which I started on this evening. We are moving rooms, hoping that the house will be ready for Laura to return tomorrow, starting Laura’s organizing business, revamping my resume to be optimized for software architecture,…
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Summer goals
I made sure Britni knew about the girls’ assignment to sirens individual time with the younger kids at dinner I asked who had spent time with whom. I find that each of the offer girls spent individual time with one sibling and invited others without success. I encouraged them to be persistent about it. When…
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End clean
One of the sure, daily business for summer is “start clean, end clean.” Yesterday was chaotic – especially the ending – so we didn’t really end clean (or start clean for that matter). If Saturday doesn’t end clean we won’t start clean on Sunday. Despite having EDI issues on one of the production QPEC servers…
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Summer begins
Our first day of summer was eventful. We got Alyssa down to Ellie’s house and then spent the day cleaning rooms and moving beds. I hoped to move all the beds but at 8 I got called in to work (I’m on call) while I was working to move Isaac’s bed – the last one…
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More DCFS
My day was going along well as I stumbled upon a job title that describes a position that matches up with my skill set. Is even happier to discover that the pay for that job was in line with what I had previously concluded my strengths to be worth (a noticable raise from my current…