It is a beautiful Saturday, here in
PA. I don’t know if you would believe it was November, if the calendar didn’t
say it. This is one reason; I didn’t pull all my plants out of the ground. It
is supposed to be low 70* here today. The election votes are still be counted;
I can’t believe this. It is been for 3 days now. Plus, our COVID-19 cases are
at all time high. Higher than they were went we started quarantine. I am glad
they are shutting us down like they did last time. It worries me though. I don’t
want to be closed again. I am going to have a huge issue though if something doesn’t
happen, because I only making ½ of what I was making in Jan/Feb. Unemployment
is only paying ½ of the money, I am missing and it ends in January. I will have
to replace kids, or force them to come back fully and I don’t like either
option. I think the hard part of this, is I didn’t cause my business to crash
the quarantine did! I was chart to make the most money this year since the
daycare opened. I know we are one of the lucky ones, because we live below our
means, and hubby has a job making good money where he is essential. It still stresses
me out though. I hate not pulling my share on the bill. That is why I am
focusing more on homesteading. That way we can start to have our food grown
here, and be healthier, happier and more loved food then we have ever eaten. It
will also help up with the cost of everything going up.
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| Cooking with kids |
Well today, I don’t have many
goals. Why you ask it’s the weekend and you don’t have little ones running around.
We are going to work on a homestead goal today that will help reduce our
heating bill. We ordered 2 cords of wood. This will should be enough wood to
get us though the winter. It is a lot of wood though and it need to be stacked.
That will take time.
Today’s Goals
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Homestead goal – Stack firewood.
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Clean up kitchen – We made the eclairs
yesterday. They didn’t come out right, I tried tripling the recipe 2 times.
Okay didn’t have to do that because the amount on the recipe was wrong. I don’t
think the batter every came together. I worked on them all day. When I stopped,
I just walked away. Leaving my poor kitchen, a hot mess.
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Weekly Goals – Set up my weekly goals for
next week. Print out my daily checklist for a clean and organized house.
Setting my week lets me work toward my yearly goals.
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| Our eggs worked we could bouncy them |
Yesterday’s Goals
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Work – I work from 6:30-about 5:30pm. This
week we will be learning about the Letter Ee. We learning about Eskimos. It is
so much fun to learn about other cultures and talk about what is going on
around other parts of the world. We will finish watching Inside Out, we got
through ½ it yesterday. I worked until about 5:50pm yesterday, parent got stuck in
traffic due to stalled car. That is the life of a daycare provider. You never
really know what time you will be done. We did have a lot of fun learning yesterday.
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Baking – To celebrate the letter e we are
going to make eclairs during morning nap! (Take 2). We were so excited to do
this but the order came around 11am and we won’t have had time to go outside.
(which is so important to little ones) and I forgot the butter. Hubby was
amazing and picked it up for me on the way home. So we should have everything
we need this time. We made them. They did not puff up though. What do you do? You
call them inside out eclairs and eat them. They still tasted good.
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Kids Knore – Our Egg project should be
done. It is time to see if it worked. The kids are so excited. Hubby going
to help me do a Facebook live on my daycare page Cassi’s Place. We are hoping
to do it around 10am. If you have kids, you know best lay plans don’t always
happen on time. We did
bounce our eggs. The kids loved it! They played with them for about 10 minutes
until everyone’s broke. We didn’t do a Facebook live but we did post a video on
Facebook the kids loved it.
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Gardening Time – We are going to pick some of
our winter berries. I had one plant stay alive. It has berries on it. I will
post pictures on Instagram ‘missylifeofaworkingmom’ and on Facebook ‘Pa
Gardeners’. Come check them out. We didn’t get outside until after nap. Eclairs take forever
to make if you don’t know what you are doing.
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Home - We are going to move the firewood in
crates into place today. We are hoping to move all the wood out of the yard
this weekend. I don’t
know why I thought we could do this goal. I must have forgotten that it gets
dark before I’m done work.
Inside out Eclairs
Sorry I went on more and more this morning. Like I said in
my I’m Back post, I’m going to be using my blog as my journal. A place to put
out what I’m feeling.
