The Chore Chart

This post is for those of you who asked for a peek at the new chore chart. Not sure if it will be helpful to anyone else; it's geared to my house and my kids and my little quirks. You're welcome to it for what it's worth.

Note to Self...

Remember to tell the physical therapist that Paddy is very allergic to latex before he tapes him. Do this even if you are certain that you have written it on each and every piece of paper required to initiate treatment.

Poor Paddy.

This will forever be "The Summer of the Shoulder."

Latex-free athletic tape (by the case) and shoulder braces available here.

My Heart's at Home Daybook-August 2

I've really enjoyed The Simple Woman's Daybook--be sure to visit Peggy for the latest entries.

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Outside My Window ...it promises to be a very, very hot week.

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Towards a daily rhythm ... I recreated the chore chart (finally), so now it's time to institute it completely so that these chores and routines are habits as the fall term begins..

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I am thankful for ... my husband.

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From the kitchen ...
for breakfast:
chocolate chip pancakes:-) 
Lunch:
leftover pork barbeque and baked beans
and for dinner:
 chicken and cream cheese enchiladas.

The refrigerator guy will get back me. August 5th. Sears called. They'll let us know when they can get here to fix the refrigerator. The part is on backorder. No problem. It's only  been a month...

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To live the liturgy...On the Feast of St. John Vianney
Morning Offering for Priests:Divine Savior Jesus Christ,
                who has entrusted the whole work of your redemption, the welfare, and salvation of the world to priests as Your representatives, through the hands of your most holy Mother and for the                 sanctification of your priests and candidates for the priesthood, I offer you this present day wholly and entirely, with all its prayers, works, joys, sacrifices, and sorrows.

                Give us truly holy priests who, inflamed with the fire of Your divine love, seek nothing but Your greater glory and the salvation of our souls.

                And you, Mary, good Mother of priests, protect all priests in the dangers of their holy vocation and, with the loving  hand of a Mother, also lead back to the Good Shepherd those poor priests who have become unfaithful to their exalted vocation and have gone astray.
                Amen (more prayers for priests here)
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I am wearing ... a pink shirt, camisole, denim skirt, bandana, drop earrings, and sandals.

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I am creating ...a baby. 'Nuff said.

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I am going to breathe deeply ...this is supposed to be my exercise block. No exercise allowed right now. I'm going sit and breathe.
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Bringing beauty to my home ...The trim painting continues. Patrick has taken over entirely. He's a very good taper.

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I am reading listening to ... the IHM conference on MP3. Laura Berquist's talk was especially good yesterday

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I am hoping ...to go peach picking this week

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Around the house ... it's time to help Michael get packed up and ready to go back to school.

One of my favorite things ...pillow talk.

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A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week: It's all about that list.

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Here is a picture thought I am sharing~

   

Answers to frequently asked questions: I'm halfway there. No, "it's" not twins. "It's" a little, tiny baby girl who likes to spread out, apparently. No, I've never been this big, ever. I have no idea what I'm going to look like in December. This is a grand adventure!

Inquiring minds want to know...

"Why do you have a monitor and a laptop on your desk?" and "I thought you had a Mac. That screen's a Dell."

Details. Details.:-)

Last year, we bought Michael a reconditioned MacBook before he left for school. At Christmas, the screen burned out. It's outrageously expensive to fix.  So, he took an old monitor and hooked it up to his Mac. That was a Dell monitor. Around that time, I grew very tired of sharing a computer with all my kids and I began saving pennies to buy myself my very own computer. I've never had my very own computer...

Then, Lightning Struck. And it zapped our Dell desktop (our second Dell to be zapped). So, we needed a new family computer.That's a computer shared by everyone else in the house. It was becoming nearly impossible to ration time on it, particularly since the bigger boys are taking writign-intensive courses this fall, too. And Michael was going to travel extensively this summer and in the fall, all while attending college. He needed a laptop that functioned like a laptop. So, my pennies went to a new family Mac-mini withthe lightning-struck monitor (the monitor is fine). And some more (many more) pennies went to a new laptop for Michael. The old lightning-struck Dell can still do word processing; it just has no online access and other limited fucntioning, so as soon as I retrieve a monitor from my father, that will fucntion nicely for paper-writing. And I set myself up with the Mac-Dell hybrid on an old desk my aunt gave me. Admittedly, I am visual enough that the necessary tangle of cords drives me nuts, but all in all, I am pretty thrilled to finally have a 'puter all my own (except for when I share it with everyone else;-). The bonus is that it acts like a Mac.

Saturday

 

Did some major organizing today, all the sitting down kind:-). It was a sort of a combination of the home notebook ideas and all Dawn's file crate ideas. It helped me clear all this "stuff" out of my head and into its place so that I can do some serious work at my "new" desk this coming week. At least that's what I'm telling myself as I procrastinate and ponder a deadline more than conquer it. (I just might clean that computer screen. It doesn't look like that in real life--who knew;-)?)