Keeping a Schedule Morning of Day 1

With the one child I homeschool off to visit his grandparents for the month of January, I think this a great time to work on a schedule for me and the rest of the family. Things got a little out of control over the Christmas holidays with travel and such. So I started today and so far I managed the flowing so far.

 

6am -Wake, shower, my bathroom, and started a load of wash

6:30- woke Sarah, unloaded the dishwasher, put away the pot and pans, and made sausage, grape juice and French toast for breakfast

7- woke the boys, and supervised eating, dressing, teeth.

7:30- Cleaned up the kitchen, checked what was for dinner, nothing to pull out today, and picked up and vacuumed the living room.

8 – took a break, ate breakfast, and got the children on the bus

8:30- I am typing this and then off to change the wash.

 

I will post more later on how today goes

POP! Ssssss... What's that noise?

Hi.  This is the Eagle's Nest Dad again.

 

I had several days off to enjoy with the family a couple of weeks ago during Veteran's Day weekend.  That was fun.  I spent most of my time fixing things that had broken while I have been away.  My wife had also managed to drive around everywhere with the van tires having on 18 PSI in the tires.  For those that may not know, they should have 36 PSI.  They looked virtually flat!

Being the good husband, I put 36 PSI of air in the tires.  Unfortunately, the damage had already been done.  The sidewalls were worn and on my may home that afternoon, I had a blowout of a rear tire.  As with most minivans, the spare tire mounted underneath would not come loose.  We needed the tow truck to come and get the tire off and change it.  If you thought that's nothing, you're right!  The next day after church (I was in my dress blues), I was taking the family to Pizza Hut for lunch and POP!  The other rear tire blew out!  I happen to pull over in front of a guy's house (His name is Ernie) who happen to have a manual tire changer a friend of his gave him a couple of years ago.  He saw my van in front of his house with all of us in it when he came home from church.  I had just called a friend of ours to come and get my wife and the two youngest children.  Remember, the spare was already on the van.

 

Our friend (Steve) came and got my wife and took her home.  She came back with our extra tires from the garage and Ernie changed the tires on the rims.  Both Ernie and Steve helped us with the tire change (It is pretty difficult to try and change a tire in a dress uniform and try not to get it dirty.

 

Our winter tires arrived the next day in the mail that I ordered the previous week.  Mounted and balanced.  I left to go back to my base and my wife took the van to have the new tires put on.

 

The Lord works in mysterious ways.  The first blowout came near enough to my house that I made it home as the tire went flat and the second near a guy who had a tire changer when in the country, most places are closed on Sundays.  Then the new tires for winter showed up the next day.

 

However, come this spring, it looks like I'll be buying new tires.

Thanksgiving Follies

To give everyone a good laugh as Thanksgiving nears, these are true stories that have happened to me.

1. All turkeys have 2 holes one at each end.

I found the gravey packet but could not find the neck and liver. I knew turkeys came with them in a small paper bag, as my mom always cooked them for the dog. But as much as I searched that turkey I could not find them any where. So I thought that they forgot to but them in this turkey. Until it came time to carve the turkey, well everyone had a good laugh and I found out a turkey has a hole in each end.

2. Canberries in a can are soild when in the cupboard.

My mom always put the can of cranberries in the fridge the night before thanksgiving. So I always thought it was a liquid and you had to place it in the fridge to make it soild, like you would do jello. Well we were at my MIL for thanksgiving and she tells me to get the cranberries so I look in the fridge, they are not there. She tells me there in the cupboard and I start to get upset, there is no way those cranberries will be jelled for dinner we eat in 15 min. She looks at me like I am crazy, I said they are a liguid you have to put them in the fridge to get them to jell. Well everyone started to laugh, I didn't belive them until I saw the can opened. My mom chimed in that she always ut them in the fridge because she liked them cold.

3. When the turkey goes missing, it's likely it just rolled away.

I had to go buy a fresh turkey as my mil could not eat the frozen one we had gotten from work. It was a busy day and I was tired, well I got to the car and started to load the food in. This was not in the best section of town, so when I bent down to get the turkey it was gone. Thought #1 some one took my turkey, well they must have needed it more then me. Then I was like I will go back to the store maybe they forgot to put it in the cart. Well they didn't have it, so I went back to the car and cried as I really wanted to impress my mil with dinner. Then I went back in to try to buy another one after deciding what other food I could return to pay for another turkey. And at the front desk they had my missing turkey the cart boy had found it sitting in the parking lot, it had rolled off the bottom of the cart and I didn't even notice. I felt better and went home to cook the turkey.

The Girls room

Well we are expecting a new baby in April and I feel the need to move the other childern around and repaint the rooms. So Sarah's room is going to be purple, many different shades  with a hippy feel to it. I think that will last her until she is 18, I can hope. Kathryn will also be getting her own room which she will share with the computer. She wanted pink, but I was not to happy with that idea. So I gave her a bunch of other choices and we are going with a garden room. I will paint the floor white, leave  the walls blue and paint a picket fence around the room. Then I will add some frogs and ladybugs. And Pat says she needs clouds to.

I wanted to paint a tree but my oldest said mom you can't paint a tree, so he said have dad do it. So little does dad know but he is painting a 9ft tree in Kathryn's room when he comes home for a visit. I think that the garden idea for her is a good one as she is 5, and this should last until she is a teenager. And being that she will be sharing with the computer for a while I think Dad will like it to.

The boys will all be going into one room, and when asked what color thet said green. That is going to take some thought, as the color green they picked is alien green, and I am having some trouble with that color. But we will see I will do the girls rooms first as they are smaller rooms.

Kathryn and frogs

 

 

My daughter Kathryn is afraid of ants yet loves frogs and toads, so in this house you never know were you are going to find a frog. One day I had gone into the bathroom and there in the tub were two frogs, well we found those frogs a new home quickly. The picture with this blog is one of a frog resort the kids made in August. There was food to be had, pools to swim in and even a toad lifeguard. It kept the kids busy for hours and all the frogs went home safely later that night. But I am glad that it is time for all the frog’s to go to sleep for the winter, and I won’t have to see any more until spring. Oh and her newest thing is she wants to catch a snake, I don’t think so.

Life without wife

Hi.  This is the Eagle's Nest Dad.  My loving wife usually does the writing to keep me informed of everything that is going on at home.  Though it has started out well, the posts are fewer. 

 

It is a difficult time to be away from home.  For those of you who travel, you have some idea of what I am talking about.  For those of you who travel when told to better understand me. 

 

I am thankful to the way computers and cellphones have brought our worlds closer together, but it is still not the same.  My life without my wife and children seems empty (especially when you consider I have five children...and one on the way!).  I'm sure my wife will post that one when she gets around to it.

 

For the moment, I am able to speak with her and my children almost every day.  When I find myself in the Middle East, it will be a different story.  I will be relying more on these posts at that time.

 

So here is my post.  I will contimue to post my comments to all the exciting things that are going on at home.  And when she says that she remodels when I am away, she is not kidding.  She has these visions of graduer and once I pull out of the driveway, she starts tearing things apart.  UNBELIEVABLE!

 

I still love her, though.  Where would I be without the unpredictability of my family?  I'd probably be bored stiff. 

 

To everyone who reads this, stay safe, stay warm, and tuned.

 

 

The Dog

We usally keep our dog on a leash when outside and free when inside, as he does not come when called. Well with the cooler weather he has been spending more time inside, and with 7 kids here yesterday and the dog inside. Well he got out, and living in the country he is very hard to catch, so you have to wait until he decides to come home.

Well I dropped the kids off at kids club and was looking forward to a quite night, when I smell the smell of that little anmial that is black with white strip down his back. The dog got sprayed, he came home about 9pm and got a bath and because if left outside all night he will bark all night he had to sleep in the house. So the house smells too, It will be another bath for him tonight. I am so tired of this, this is the third time in a year that he has been sprayed. At least this time it wasn't in the garage with me in the room to, I smelled for days.