Apologies

 Not that you all were anxiously awaiting my posts, but I apologize that it has been so long. Things were busy with:

*prepping for my stepkids' 6 week visit

*Stepkids' arrival

*Summer activities for family of 7

*Going to the ER because my symptoms were like meningitis but it was actually Covid (my first time getting it)

*Being wiped out for 4 days trying to recover and making sure immunocompromised Monkey #3 then later Mon Amour were OK.

*There is so much more to the story, but the end result is stepkids chose to leave their 6-week summer time with us four weeks early. It was a really awful, emotional situation that hurt Mon Amour more than his terminal diagnosis did. It hurt me a lot, too, and also made me angry because of how much they hurt their father and their siblings. I spent several weeks working on forgiving them.

*Potty training the youngest which blessings of blessings came along very well. 

*Getting our estate planning taken care of

*Monkey #3 starting 1st grade and Monkeys #4 and #5 starting preschool

*Efforts for recruitment for my preschool music class that I was starting up, then starting it up

And somewhere in there the laptop my husband had changed over for me to use got corrupted and wouldn't let me log in to do anything.

Since getting a new-to-me laptop for myself, my time has still been busy with homeschooling, prepping and teaching my classes, and so much work on the yard. 

But I'm back now! The stress and busyness haven't gone away, but hopefully I can get back to writing as I need the therapeutic outlet.