Posted in Every Day Blessings
What a day!
I tried to get the boys to help me get going again on the continued Passover cleaning but all we succeeded in doing is picking up the house and clearing the hallway of the piles that came out of my bedroom which will help since we are getting ready to empty their rooms next. I gave up trying to have them help me bless the house and had them sit down and do a bit of school instead. That is good too but it also means I personally can't get anything done.
Luckily we still have casseroles in the freezer from the OMC session so I get that going and dh walks in the door from work. He wants to fill another load of sand in the truck and go pick up the cleaned pistons for the soccer trophies (he uses broken pistons because that is the name of our team -- they turn out really nice but bil had them cleaned at his work so he had to pick them up).
While he is loading sand he finds not one, or two but FOUR
Bugs are in containers ready to ship and then we find a queen in an ant colony so another whirl of activity to get the ant farm going. Kinda cool - they even had underground aphid farm that they were caring for. We will see how they do. Tonight they are settled into the ant farm and it is just fascinating to watch them work.
Okay so dh leaves with truck load of sand to go dump and an hour later I get a call to come pull him and his truck out of the sand because he is STUCK lol!!! I un-stick him -- boy that is nerve racking driving in sand, with chains, in the dark. Boys go to bed waaay late -- after 11p so I hope all this excitement doesn't mess up tomorrow too.
What a crazy day! but at least we did a little school and can tell you a bit ants, J. crickets and
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