Some Rambles

You know, I never would have believed my life could have gotten any crazier....until now!  We don't have many "set in stone," schedules, but we always seem busy. 

Summer is in full swing.  Joey's school friends are out,  and our house seems to be the "happening," hang out.  So, there always seems to be extra kids here.  That's ok, I am enjoying kids more lately.  Not sure why, but they aren't a burr under my saddle anymore.  Maybe I am mellowing some?!

We've replanted our big garden.  Most of it seems to be doing good....as long as we don't get another 18 inches of rain in 30 days!  Within a week, I should have lettuce, and radishes ready!  We've already eaten some radishes out of Joey's garden, and green onions from ours.  I'm anxious to see how all our trials do this year.  I finally got all my "indoor" plants transplanted and set outdoors for the summer.  Hopefully by next Summer, I will have lemons, limes and bananas.  Still hoping to have blueberries this year.  The owner of our house was sweet enough to bring us a ton of cherries.  So, now I am on a quest to find a good cherry pie filling recipe that I can make up and can.  I am attempting some jellies this year....HOPEFULLY!  Would love to make some pear/honey jelly, strawberry rhubarb, grape, and apple jelly.  Joey thinks we need to order a peanut plant so we can make our own peanut butter.  Sounds fun, and who knows....we may try it.

My candle venture has started out GREAT!  The first order will go in on Friday....1 catalog party=over $700 in sales.  A 25% profit for me on that, and that's not a bad profit for 20 minutes worth of work!  Online orders are doing great, I have 2 more catalog parties scheduled, and 2 home parties scheduled.  LOVE IT!


Ameriplan is doing good, but has slowed up some.  People are seriously brainwashed with insurance!  Insurance sucks!  Even though they can't discriminate for pre-existings...they are charging more, and not covering them for 1 full year!  Kinda defeats the purpose in my opinion.  I guess at some point people will have to start thinking logically again.  So much ignorance can't go on forever.  And seriously, if you can not afford $40 per month to include everyone living at your address, related or not, you have bigger fish to fry!

School schedules have come and gone.  We are doing some independent studying, and a lot of hands on and oral studying right now.  We are still averaging 3 hours per day, but until I can get my sanity back....structure is out the window!

We had family here over the weekend.  My mom, step-dad, neice, nephew, step-brother and his girlfriend were all here.  It was great to see everyone...but it wore me clear out!  I spent 2 days doing nothing, and the last 2 days trying to get back on track.

Chloe is officially walking.  I guess in some situations, she runs!  So, the fun begins.  I am tying string on cabinet doors to keep her out, have gates all over everywhere, and even more of a neat freak when it comes to sweeping and vaccuming!  She's definitely got a personality all of her own.  If she's mad, stuff flies...wants attention, she screams at the top of her lungs.  She has her mommas temper, I can't deny that.  Fortunitely, and hopefully she will learn to control hers as I have learned to control mine. 

Well, I believe that is an update in a nutshell.  I'm sure there will be more posts then what I have made lately. Writing in this blog helps me to keep up the perception of sanity! ; )