Good Thing Friday (80)
August 28, 2020
If you’d like to join me in helping Lakota families and/or rural libraries this year, please read this post. Over 6 weeks in 2019, we raised $2669.94 for the Lakota families, touching 27 lives. What can we do in 2020?
Current total: Lakota, $1,732.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. Every time I start to think our little $3 hydroponic basil plant is giving up, it stages a comeback! It’s put out several new lovely green stems fluffy with leaves. The odd thing is that these are sprouting out of the very brown stems that are connected to the roots. It’s a strange look but it’s fresh and smells great.
2. Our Lakota balance is creeping up again to nearly $100 between monthly contributions from giving friends and my last infusion. We should be able to help another family soon!
3. LOTS of friends on this list of Plutus Finalists, yay friends!
Challenges this week: Yet another friend has lost their beloved family pet. That’s three friends in as many weeks. My heart breaks for them.
Because I don’t seem to actually understand the meaning of “pace yourself” I am now: working on selling the rental, working on refinancing our primary home, figuring out if we can shift some big items to someone who needs it more, on top of the usual work – managing remote schooling – parenting – dogparenting/dogcare – grind. Deep breath.
The world is … too much. We are awash with Covid, wildfires are everywhere so people and homes are in danger, the air quality is horrible so it’s not safe to take JB out for long isolated walks and hikes and bike rides.
4. We borrowed a hot spot from the school and picked it up just in time so we would have it in time for the second week of school. This is good, we will have three people using the internet at the same time this coming week and I didn’t have confidence in even our upgraded internet to be stable under the heavy usage.
5. PiC and I finally had a meeting of the minds and selected some kid specific organizing aids. Finally!! It’ll come in stages so I started with the small stuff I could manage right away while we wait for the larger basket set to arrive. The key here is to teach JB to independently follow the organizers.
6. A completely satisfying weekend day: breakfast, cleared some household work, JB had a call to hang out with Auntie then I hopped on a call to discuss some supplemental enrichment and organizing plans. We had lunch, walked the dogs, went to pick up supplies and return the second case of the absolutely terrible strawberry mango sparkling water at Target. We also bought a refill on hand sanitizer because we couldn’t find it anywhere else for delivery. How ironic it is that to protect ourselves against Covid we had to go in a crowded store and search for AGES to find it? Everyone was masked, thankfully, but it was unpleasantly packed in there. Still we got what we needed and got out, then I got to work with the printer and tape to customize our personal bottles while JB had their rest time. After which point PiC and I crashed so we abandoned our child, him to nap and me to lay down and they did just fine for an hour doing scratch art and drawing and painting. A whole hour without more than marginally bothering me! We had dinner and crashed out. There were hiccups, there always are, but we made it over the finish and I felt both semi rested and like I’d gotten a lot done.
7. JB is coping really well with online learning, all things considered.
Yay for your basil plant! The resilience of plants is truly amazing!
I used to be so much better but I’m now terrible at cooking in advance. I am making a dish called Toad In the Hole this weekend that I hope will have leftovers for the next day. And I pine over noodles regularly, so will hopefully make a fairly big batch.
Lastly, sending love and gladness to hear of your safety during these, odd, disjointed times. Hope the overwhelm starts to ease, and soon ❤