I just have a chance today to post-
Some positives this past month- the kids have all adjusted to schools, with less anxiety than I had! They are enjoying new people and classes. My fifth grader is avoiding homework, an old problem of hers. My college daughter continues to try to find affordable health insurance. The four year old, with the assistance of the pastor's family and the secretary at church, is attending preschool for no charge to us. This has been a real blessing. The little girls go to school at the community college I am attending on Wednesday afternoons, and occasionally another day so I can get lab and other lectures in.
Other than that, we are getting closer to having some things done on the divorce. I will be done with pre-nursing school classes in mid-December. Tasha will hopefully graduate from college this spring or summer. There are changes on the horizon, and I don't know what they will mean in my everyday life. I can only hope for the best outcomes and do my best to keep things as much the same as possible, if that will be best for the kids.
So, in the meantime, I try to make the house run well and make sure that everyone has warm dinners, clean school and football uniforms, and is where they need to be. I am averaging seven to nine trips a day to get everyone where they need to be, but we do have one carpool. Football season is about another month, but then Ivy is trying out for Hansel and Gretel dinner theatre at school. Promise and Violet really have no activities, but they have needed to concentrate on school work, so it's been good.
This week Ivy starts confirmation. I am glad we will take a day on Sunday and go to the farm we get our CSA veggies and raspberries from. It is about a 3 hour drive, but I think it will be a lot of fun. A potluck and a pumpkin picking outing sounds like just the ticket for us right now.
Just had to include this picture, life is sweet when your little girls decorate your patio chair.