Sights from our zoo

Sick little girl...she thought Cy would save her from the dreaded grape tylenol...

Yesterday it was natural food....today it was produce day....

Jared finds a unique way to move produce

Arielle loves those carrots

Single share of what we got this week - saves big dollars if we eat it all! LOL

Tuesday -

This is the Tuesday that felt like Monday. ::snort::

Stacia ran a fever all day but I finally got Motrin for her and she seems to be fine now. Zander is sort of lethargic; not sure what is up.

We didn't begin school until after lunch when Stacia went down.

I ran to the library and found books for our Thanksgiving mini-unit (I guess that's what I'll call it).

I cancelled Bible Study tonight and that involved phone calls.

We decided we are going to do something very RARE have a family Thanksgiving meal. We'll then have dessert, munchies and games in the evening here....if we can find others that want to go out in the evening after stuffing themselves all day. I feel good about this. It acknowledges that this is not a "normal" Thanksgiving since the girls and Mike aren't here...but it doesn't let us wallow all day...we get to do something with others. The boys are excited...one of them said, "We won't have to prepare for FOUR days!" WHAT? I don't remember being frazzled. ::snort::

I picked up our produce order today. I was so PROUD that we were OUT of broccoli and carrots. There were 4 of us ordering today so we got way more variety than we usually do. It is a lot of produce....but I already cut up the broccoli and cauliflower. If it's cut up it is very easy to steam it, stir fry it, or throw it in a salad. I also cut up a head of romaine and green leaf to have for making salads. I dehydrated a thing of apples today because I knew more were coming. We found another drawer of apples tonight that we'd forgotten we had! Heather.....if you want to borrow my dehydrator some afternoon/evening or something let me know. I know that Mike likes getting those in the mail.....Let's see the evening was spent with a couple picking up produce and some still picking up from the Shop Natural co-op last night.

My friend Adrienne called tonight to tell me that I looked more tired than she's ever seen me looking today...another good reason to cancel pictures. We were supposed to get pictures for the year book etc tomorrow...but with Stacia running 102* up until 6 p.m. and Zander being so lethargic...we'll stay home tomorrow. Adrienne wondered what she could do to help me - but there simply isn't much you can do. I know I felt helpless when her little ones had that awful Hand, Foot and Mouth thing.

My friend Heather bought some tea from Republic of Tea (think that's the name - to tired to go get the catalog). One is an African Bush tea. I'm going back to my roots. I really LIKED the one ...um....it's some sort of Red Tea with ....hmm....safari sunset or something. All that to say that I need to check where I bought my English vanilla tea and get some of that ordered and I think I will order a few of the herbal teas from this place too. They aren't half bad with rapadura cubes and milk. LOL

The girls are traveling and ministering this week at a big youth convention in OR - Ignite. I'm excited to hear how things go for them....hopefully Krista won't get the wind knocked out of her in this human video. LOL

I mailed out two more PBS books today. Whew. I was down to 0 credits and then had a slew of books requested. I'm excited that a Brian Cleary book on prepositions is coming my way.

That's the day...I now have 2 parenting proverbs to type up.....well I'm learning and marinating...just not having time to type with Stacia being ill.

OTHER PHOTOS JARED TOOK YESTERDAY - HE WAS BORED. {G}

Yesterday -

Stacia continues to run a fever off and on.

School was school. Arielle finished Wordly Wise B. She threw it away. She then grabbed C off the shelves. We had a big laugh thinking that this book had been used by BREANNE (who is now 21 1/2) in Hardin, MT. I told Arielle to write in the book - it's time to order more. She wondered how the others had used the book if they didn't write in it. I think she thought they had it easier than her....I explained that they had to write all their answers on notebook paper. ::snort::

Zander took THREE WEEKS to earn 60 tickets this time. He enjoyed playing "play station Narnia". I can't figure out how he can earn 60 tickets in 2 days and at other times it takes 3 weeks.

Co-op: truck was met. . . late. My "normal" help wasn't able to help sort etc. Heather was a HUGE help - she handled all the splits and then jumped in and helped us pull orders. Another young family showed up about 45 minutes early to help - Sarilyn and Jake - Mike. They asked about you. They have a darling new 3 month old baby boy.

It was late by the time the last orders were picked up last night. I was EXHAUSTED since Stacia has been battling something and didn't sleep Sunday night. I headed to bed without finding time to update or post on parenting. Maybe I'll get two done today.

Stacia was up every hour - two last night as well. She's running a fever that spikes. No other symptoms other than 4 teeth coming in. The rash of last week is gone. Nothing seems swollen. She isn't pulling at her ears. I'm waiting it out another day....I'm cancelling Bible Study tonight and school photos tomorrow....we'll see. I'm not sure if she'll be better by tomorrow and don't want to cancel at the last moment. Bible study is tonight and since she's so cranky and running a high fever....I am staying home with her. I won't leave my boys to deal with her. Besides she wants/needs mommy more than the ladies do tonight.