I’m exhausted.  We’ve had a busy few days here in the Eaglwood’s Nest and it is beginning to take it’s toll upon me.

Friday was Sneefert’s ninth birthday (can he REALLY be that old?), our bulk shopping day, and I spent most of the day feeling pretty awful.  The baby has already begun to drop, so I’m also feeling rather sore! Saturday was Sneefert’s birthday party and our thrift shopping day.  Yesterday I received a series of phone calls from Eaglewood which culminated in a rush to pack him a bag for a trip to Idaho!  He did arrive safely (but still had a three hour drive this morning), but not until nearly midnight our time.  I’m tired just thinking about it all.  Did I mention that our landlord (who is really fabulous!) has been hanging around doing some annual maintenance on our house?  I’m not sleeping well these days thanks to the repositioning of the baby and I’m not entirely certain that I’m really awake even now.  I’m probably sleep blogging!   All this to say that blogging will probably be rather light this week unless I prove to be a better sleep blogger than a waking one!

I’m not JUST nesting, I’m really digging in and getting serious about it!  So far, the guys seem to be holding up well to all of the repairs, improvements and rearrangements.  As a matter of fact, Ditto, Pookie and the Wild Things are loving the new furniture arrangements we have put together and are getting ahead of me on plotting what we should do with the rest of the house!  

As you have probably noticed, I’m spending a LOT Of time on crafting, sewing and crocheting.  I’ve put Pookie to work on helping me with the Thanksgiving and Christmas crafting.  It seems a little weird to be working on Fall and Winter crafts when the outside temperatures are staying above 100 each day!  I’m sure we’ll really enjoy it all as soon as the seasons start to change, though!
 

The temperatures are quite high and all predictions indicate that they will stay that way.  Our time of flooding and unseasonably cooler weather has ended and has been replaced by the annual dry weather one can usually expect of a Texas summer.  I’m really starting to miss the rain.  

Our weekend was good to us.  Eaglewood took pity on me and finished the re-caulking job I had started on the master bathroom a few weeks ago.  I reorganized my closet yet again.  I’m ALMOST happy with it this time, too!   Most of our children have actually caught the reorganizing and furniture rearranging bug and we have decided to take off the last couple of weeks before public school starts again in celebration (and to give us more time to work on reorganizing and rearranging).  We haven’t taken a Summer break in the last few years, so the children don’t quite know what to make of this new development.  The older two are thrilled.  The younger two are complaining about the lack of school work!  Who would have thought it possible?  Apparently, homeschooling has become an important part of their daily routine.  Somehow, that would seem to bode well for our homeschooling future.

Pookie and I have been busy working on some Christmas crafts.  The snowflakes were made with about .25 worth of crochet thread bought at the local thrift store.  The snowmen were made from felt we already had wrapped around some old cans.  The fun was made by just hanging around and doing something together.

You know that any day that starts with the Wild Things catching SEVEN toads first thing is going to have to be spectacular!

Of course, they DID have to release all of them in the field behind our house.  I’m not planning on living with toads anytime too soon!