Weekly Wrap - The Animal Farm

This week's break from routine was brought about by multiple animal sitting jobs.   Olivia ended up farm sitting Monday-Thursday (horses, cows, chickens, cats and a donkey), we are house/cat sitting Monday -Sunday, for a friend while she's on vacation (4 cats), and then Thursday Stan, the dog, returned to the house to spend a week while his owner gets married and goes on her honeymoon.   Thankfully Stan doesn't get my allergies worked up, and I send the kids in to deal with the cats so that I don't have a major attack while there.

Lindsey's birthday was the first week of September, and the present she requested was for us to buy her paint so she could redecorate her room.  Monday and Tuesday were pretty much wrapped up in taping, painting, touching up and hanging art work.  Here's some before, during and after photos.

The "fairy lights" in the above photo are navy, dark yellow, light grey and an off white.  The lights are her greatest joy with her new room.  It just looks cozy in there with the little lights glowing softly.

In other news, the girls volleyball team lost their first game last week.  It was especially frustrating because they only have 6 players, and two of those went out of town last week and missed the game.  The coach had to pull up 2 middle school players to fill the roster, and it was a horrible decision.   Thankfully once everyone got back in town, they returned to their winning streak and are doing really well.

Lindsey's Consumer Science class is now focusing on cooking and shopping for ingredients.  This week she made an ambrosia fruit salad and baked macaroni.   She's becoming quite the little cook.  Olivia has been focusing her time on budgeting in her Conumer Math class.

Even though Lindsey is dog sitting, Olivia is still the "dog whisperer" so he hangs out on her lap a great deal.

Here's to a great weekend!