When the home schoolers are in high school, I'll probably quote Homer and Shakespeare. Right now, Dr. Seuss and Mother Goose will just have to do! No, we didn't go to market to buy a fat hog... We are home from church. Again.
Last week, we enjoyed a great fellowship meal at the park following worship, and our kids played several hours with other kids from church. Some of them loved up on Shiloh... And a couple of these families' kids came down with Chicken Pox on Monday. They're more than likely no longer contagious, but they would have been contagious last Sunday. We anticipate seeing the pox in another week or so. (Yet we are still hopeful that it was all a big mistake and they were just chiggers! One can hope! :)
Anyhow, David and I decided that we need to do everything we are capable of in order to keep the kiddos' immune function high. Shiloh, while under 2 months, is at the most vulnerable age for complications from Chicken Pox. I welcome it for any of the others, but not her. Waking them up earlier than any other day of the week while they're still really tired, tossing them in the shower, having them sit in a chilly room with wet heads, and then run around with a bunch of other kids is something we will avoid for a while. (And then we probably need to rethink the way we do Sunday mornings, huh?! Colds always arrive on Tuesdays in our home, and it's no wonder when I put it that way!)
This week we have had some other excitement here... We ordered a milk machine! My carpal tunnel hasn't gone away, even though I'm no longer pregnant. I really didn't expect that it would, since building the barn brought on CT symptoms when I wasn't pregnant. Typing (thankfully) doesn't hurt, but gripping does. So, the milk machine will allow me to get more milk from the does than I can possibly get by hand. When it arrives, I will wean the bucklings and either wether them and keep them as pets, or they will go to the butcher. I haven't decided just yet.
We also ordered a dining room table. It is to be built by Amish crafters in Ohio, and we expect that it will be ready in August or sometime thereabout. By Thanksgiving, anyway! Our current table is lovely and we are most thankful for it (Thank you, Vicki & Z!) but it isn't holding up well to the demands of our family. I continually scrub off the finish when trying to get the sticky goo the kids manage to get on it, and it's breaking in the middle from a large stack of books that we never should have put on it a few months back... When we can afford to order the chairs for the new table, that will be our next major purchase, but that may be a while. There are always so many major purchases to make, it seems. It never ends. An exercise in contentment and patience, I suppose.
Wishing you a Happy Lord's Day and a Happy Fathers' Day today!!! (I better have the kiddos make cards for Daddy before he gets home from church!)
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Oh, but come to worship next week! We will literally be the only family there if y'all and the Goolsby's don't show...everyone else will be out of town! (we don't have the chicken pox...although we were exposed on the same Sunday that y'all were)
Well, that wouldn't be much fun, would it?! David makes the call on these things, but I'll share your concern! :) ...and thinking to myself, "We sure will have a lot of eggs to eat!!!"
Hey...if your kids get the chicken pox...I'd love to expose my youngest :) They are unvaccinated and it's so hard to find someone to expose them to. Not that I'd want chicken pox for your family, but there are positives to it :)
No kidding! When I was pregnant w/Shiloh, a friend of mine in Hartsville had the chicken pox go through her home. If I weren't pregnant, I'd have taken the kids over! And if I didn't have Shiloh, I'd have taken the kids over this time, too, just to make SURE they got it! Well, if not this time, good for Shiloh, but we'll have to seek it out another time. We shall see!
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