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Read my books! Volume 1 and 2 of A Dragon Medley are available now.
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http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmSo… do you have some new info to impart?
Lokie’s question to Jasmine inspired me: What’s a typical day like for you?
Read my books! Volume 1 and 2 of A Dragon Medley are available now.
http://www.sarahjestin.com/mybooks.htm
I host the feedback lists, which are maintained by drag0nfeathers.
http://www.sarahjestin.com/feedbacklists.htmAccckkk!!! When did this happen???? Have I been a member here long enough to get the hot seat??? 😳
Uhh, I don’t know; I don’t think I have a typical day… Most of the time I’m lucky enough to get to do what I please. I’m blessed enough to be an at home mum and wife 😀 Let me think (think, think, think,) Well, we’re generally up by 6:30. Make breakfast for the boyohs (Roddy is generally off to work by now) scurry around finding homework, gym clothes, back packs, gloves, hats, scarves, etc. Have scripture study and family prayer, check outside temp. to see if we’re riding the bus or if I’m driving to school. School starts at 7:54 a.m. We have a four day school and work week, so the days are a bit longer but we get every friday off, so we get perpetual three day weekends (woohoo!) Then it’s run through the house and get stuff picked up so I can have the rest of the time to myself 😀 Tues. and Thurs. I volunteer at school either reading with the 5th graders or helping out in the library. Lots of the time at home is spent online doing genealogical research for my family but I also do volunteer work (genealogy) for church. Lots of transcribing of old records for the church. I keep hoping I’ll run across records I need for my family in the process, but no such luck yet 😀 I do lots of reading and harrassing the brat cats during winter. Winter generally lasts thru May, here, although we did have snow on birthday once, in June. There’s a road just outside of town that has a sign that reads “This road not plowed May thru September or July 4. Travel at your own risk” or something like that. We’ve got a pic of it somewhere… I’ll have to see if I can find it.
I think we’ve been in Soda Springs about 3 years now. A lot of that time has been spent in rehabilitation for my stupid feet. I’d had a bone that wouldn’t heal after the last surgery so, 2 more surgeries and 3 years later it’s almost good. I am looking at more suregery, possibly in April – I’m not looking forward to it but it’s better than the year that I had 6 surgeries… Don’t ask me what happened that year ’cause I really couldn’t tell ya 😀
Once the boys get home from school (around 4:30) we deal with homework, piano practice, band practice, stuff for scouts, dinner prep and whatever else pops up. Roddy is generally home by 5:30, dinner by 6:00, clean up then time with the family or running the boys to where ever they need to be for school activities or church activities. Then, generally, we try to get everyone to bed by 9:00 (doesn’t usually happen) and start the whole drill all over again the next morning. You also have to understand that because we live out in the middle of nowhere, if there is any major shopping to do like for clothing or major grocery shopping, the nearest ‘big’ town is over an hour away in Pocatello, Idaho. If there are doctor’s appt. to go to they are also in Poky or 3 hours away in Salt Lake City, Utah… Winter travel is really iffy around here. We live in a micro-climate where the weather is more like Jackson Hole, Wyoming than Idaho. School only closes here when the temp. reaches -20 F. We always have to be ready for winter power outages with an alternative heat and power source… Then you shut down the whole house except for one or two rooms that are ‘easier’ to heat… The compensation, of course, is being able to let my boys off the chain a little easier than when we lived in larger cities, the view from our house is stunning and we get lots of wild life running around the house, deer, fox, cougar, rabbits, squirrel, etc. The bear are on the other side of town 😀 The cats keep bringing ermine home; you know, the critters that are related to mink, but in the winter are pure white except for the black tip on the end of the tail…
That’s it, I suppose. Nothing too exciting. We’re getting ready to head out to Cali for my brother’s wedding on Saturday. We’ll make a long, fast dash home Sunday and hopefully get everyone back to work and school Monday morning!
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Life is what happens when you make plans… We of Soda Springs have had a tough week. Last weekend 4 families got together to go snowmobiling; the dad’s got caught in a mile long avalanche. One managed to dig himself out but the other three died. We’ve had a week of funerals. The last one is on Thurs. Please, would you remember our community in your thoughts and prayers… The middle school kids have taken it especially hard since one dad was the track coach, one was our math teachers husband and one was scout master…
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Just had a really fast run to Cali for my brother’s wedding… We are home now (and don’t want to travel real soon either!) 😀
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Thought you might like to see a pic of my family from my brother James’ wedding…
we siblings have titled it “And suddenly Ed broke wind” 😀
bottom row from left to right: my baby sister Sarah who is expecting, my mum and dad, my baby brother Edward
middle: my sister Alice and my brother James
top: my brother David and me 😀twindragonsmum 😀
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We were all distracted by the antics of our misbehaving children, particularly Kaitlyn who is the youngest at two and a part years, who happened to be tossing the favors out of baskets and over a wall onto the street below like it was Mardi-Gras and she was tossin’ beads… No, not really 😀 😀 😀 I’ve no idea what distracted us. It may’ve been when the photographer asked us to move in closer to each other and we (sibs) replied in stereo “This IS as close as we get!” 😀 You should’a seen the look on her face! Then we all dissolved in laughter and moved in for the shot. 😀
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Thankies, BDW! We did! It was the first time in 7-8 years that our whole family was together in the same place 😀 We at least have everyone all on the same continent now; even if we do cover it coast to coast 😀
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