Good Things Friday (62)
April 24, 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, $640.74; Rural libraries, $321.62.
1. JB is at their best after rest time. My fatigue was up one day after they’d had rest so they came in to give me a hug, tuck me in, and said, let me know if you need anything!
They came to check on me and update me twice more in the next couple of hours while I rested.
2. My friends are all over the map, have been for the past 20 years, and so we’ve gotten pretty good at long distance support. I am so grateful that my friends are just in my pocket if I ever need them.
3. My toes are ice blocks every night and it takes me hours of shivering in my bed to get warm. I can’t sleep with ice toes.
I could not take one more night of this and ordered myself a $20 sherpa fleece blanket to lay on top of. It is a perfect cloud of warmth and fuzziness and I am extremely happy to be warm at night. Now I wish I could fashion a robe out of this blanket and stay in it all week!
Challenges this week: I think I’m getting even more introverted as a result of all these conference calls. I normally avoid them like the plague, I speak to no humans for 8 hours a day and then only to my family afterward.
4. PiC had his heart set on a specific bike for JB who has outgrown their free hand me down. He found it at Costco for $30 less and no shipping costs than the original shop. I still think he should have checked around for a hand me down but we also aren’t in a position to be checking out used goods. (This is the trade-off of not having school to go to: JB normally has access to all kinds of physical exercise equipment and we didn’t have to spend money on it at home. Now we do because they need a lot of physical activity and there are limited safe ways to get it.)
5. When PiC made it to the grocery store and he managed to get most of what we needed and mostly on sale. No strawberries, but blackberries and raspberries were on sale.
6. I had to pick up some educational supplies for JB’s lessons. I added some craft supplies to the pile since we never really had a lot of those things on hand for arts and crafts. I’m grateful for the $25 gift card that we received a few years back for their use!
