Last week Monday started off with the first day of Summer Schedule!!! I was very excited to start being done teaching at a decent time each day! Monday was a bit crazy because I had 9 students that day, but I lived through it and was done before 8 pm so i call that a win!!
I never showed pictures of my finished organized little space, so i snapped one on monday. I love how this turned out!
Wednesday i was feeling good. Loving my schedule and not teaching 5 students back to back at the end of the day. Life was good. Until I got done with my last student and noticed it was warmer than normal in my house. I thought maybe i had bumped the temp up the day before ( it saves it when you change it) my ac was running so i started making dinner and putzing around. until i noticed it was getting really warm inside. check my thermostat, and it's now 77. uh oh. i open my back door, while my heart is sinking into my stomach, and am met with the sound of silence. not. good. my ac unit was not running and the only thing running was my fan inside. despite it clicking on. ugh. i tried several different fixes, and nothing worked. i finally shut off the ac since it wasn't working and i didn't want to somehow damage it running while not working. this happened about 2 years ago to the day and i thought/hoped/prayed it was the same problem, as the last was very inexpensive and very easy to fix. so we ordered that part and hoped for the best.
Meanwhile Thursday was spent sweating half of my body weight and feeling miserable while teaching and LIVING. 90's and high humidity outside equals a really hot stifling house with no ac. I would not have made it back in the day. God knew what he was doing when he created me in the 1980's.
Let's just say Thursday, thursday night and friday morning were terrible.
I had planned to borrow a wall ac from my mom, but when she pulled it out of storage it wasn't cooling. by that point it was thursday night and storms were rolling in, so I decided to be miserable for a few more hours and then we would pick one up the following am when we met up to go garage saling.
Mom and Sarah met me at my house Friday morning and the three of us installed the ac and let it cool while we went deal hunting!
Sarah #1 had never been garage saling before so this was a big deal! We hit up a church sale we always go to and it was like a ghost town. And barely anything for sale. It's all on donations so i guess they didn't have much this year? we also hit up a neighborhood wide garage sale, and there were less than 5 homes participating. one of which looked like we would end up on a Dateline Mystery. Needless to say we skipped that house. We went to another one close by and then went across the river to the largest garage sale i have ever been to. i should have taken pictures, I have never seen anything like it. i think they could have had their own store.
After all of our shopping and sweating, it was back in the 90s again, we came back to my house and i quickly changed and wiped myself down with some wet wipes because i had BIG PLANS. My first massage of the summer!! YAY!!!!! Our local school has a free clinic in the summer and it's my favorite part of summer! the massage was great, the lady two beds down who talked in an OUTSIDE voice THE ENTIRE TIME was not so great. That's all I'll say about that.
Saturday the part came in for the ac, and Dad came to town to fix it. Sadly it wasn't the problem. But after seeing and hearing it in person he did some research and thinks he has figured it out so part #2 is on the way! I'm still nice and cool inside with my wall unit so all is well in that dept.
Sunday was a super rainy day and my sunday to Serve!
And while I'm standing at the Info desk who do I see but the Choutka family!! Pastor Dave is our former Pastor and when Dawn walked thru the doors I got REAAALLY excited! It was so fun to see both of them and get to hug on Dawn!
If Sunday wasn't exciting enough by this point, I went to Aldi after church and who do I see getting a cart but my favorite little tow headed boy and his Momma! He looks thrilled here, don't you think? Jboz and Ro were shopping and Brandon and Kohen were in the van. Well Ko has a deep and abiding hatred for his car seat, and staying stationary is like adding oil to the fire. So they headed on a quick errand. So that left us to grocery shop and then wander the aisles of Aldi and try to prevent Jboz from murdering anyone with the tomato cages that were poking out of her cart.
Roman looks thrilled here, but I promise you he smiled! Only, when Roman takes a picture and says Cheese, it is for aprox. 0.000000000009 seconds. And most photo taking devices do not have a shutter speed that adequately does the job on taking a picture of his blink and you miss it cheese. That kid. He is so funny. Jboz had to go get something on a different aisle and we were like a large train with our carts. so we parked out of the way and I stayed with Roman. He somehow missed her telling him she'd be back and to stay with Auntie Cherry, so I'm standing there with him and he gets all confused and wants to know where Mama went. So I tell him where she went and we count how many aisles away that that item is. She starts to come back and he's asking me again where Mama went. And I say see, here she comes! do you see her? I'm pointing to her, 4 aisles away, but she is clearly the ONLY person walking, he is still confused. I finally move his head to the direction of her and he sees her. Right as she makes it to the cart. HAHAHA. Bless his heart. He cracks me up.
Oh! I should add that even though I have zero pictures of it, this weekend was my Dad's birthday!! Happy Birthday Dad! Even though you don't read my blog :) I still love you!
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