It's hard to believe we're in the third month of this new year. I'm excited to see the sun coming up earlier each morning, and watching it linger in the evenings as well. My brain will now turn to garden preparations and spring cleaning. The cleaning of course will not be done until we are done with the wood stove for the year, but at least I can get a schedule worked out.
Olivia had an interview over the weekend at a farm that houses a premier therapeutic horsemanship riding program in our area. The program has a wonderful reputation, and would give Olivia some new skills to put under her belt. She was thrilled to be offered the job. This also meant she was able to let go of the one farm job with the 27 horses. She liked the horses, and the work, but the management has been an example of how not to run a business. (For her first paycheck, they sent her home with a blank, signed check and waited several days to tell her the amount to fill in herself.)
Monday was a low-key, calm day. Lindsey went to her nanny job from 9:30-2pm. She completed her math online before she left for work and everything else went with her, and she completed it throughout the day. I worked on laundry and things around the house and Olivia spent her day working on German and reading.
Tuesday was Lindsey's long nanny day. She got up early to get her math completed online before she left for the day. She worked 7:30am-5:30pm, and completed the rest of her school work throughout the day. I dropped her off, and then came home to get Olivia to go look at a vehicle she was thinking about buying. She liked it, it seemed like it had been maintained well, and the price wasn't too bad, relatively speaking. After crunching numbers, finding out her insurance cost, and watching that savings account balance drop very low, she got very stressed. It was a teaching moment, so we sat down and had a heart to heart. Anything that steals your peace, and causes that much stress, is not the right thing.
Wednesday morning, Olivia started her new job at the therapeutic riding facility. The horses are just coming in for the season (March - early November). She really likes the facility, it's not nearly as muddy as her other farms and the manager is very organized. Lindsey worked picked up a few hours babysitting, and she worked on school throughout the day. I tried a new bread recipe with dinner and it turned our really well. I'll probably post the recipe next week...but for now, here's a photo.
Thursday was SUPER busy. Olivia had to be at work at 6am; Lindsey worked 10am-noon; Olivia was back at farm #1 at 1pm, and then farm #3 directly after that. I managed to pick up groceries in that 10am-noon window. Tom was supposed to pick Olivia up from farm #3 when he got off work, but then ended up working over several hours, so I ran back across the county to pick her up. They both went to jiu-jitsu in the evening and we have a late dinner when they got home at 7:45pm. This day is a good picture of why we need to find a vehicle for Olivia soon.
Friday morning we were at farm #1 for the early shift and then I dropped Olivia at her new job. She was home by 11am. She ate a quick lunch and then went back for the afternoon shift at farm #1. Lindsey was home most of the day doing her school work and then she went to babysit from 2:30-4pm. I got some of the house cleaned. My brother and his little dog came by for a visit mid-day. Olivia ended up with a job interview at a grocery store in the evening. It's really bad when the people doing the interview can't pull off professionalism long enough to impress a 17 year old. The evening consisted of homemade pizza's, volleyball for Olivia and a shopping trip for Lindsey. I am tired ya'll.
Have a great weekend!
I can see why you are tired; that is a lot of running around! But I am so impressed with how hard your daughters work and that Lindsay even manages to get all her schoolwork done on her own while babysitting! My husband's office manager had a snafu with the automatic payment program one week and paychecks weren't direct deposited on time for the weekend; he felt so bad and talked about how unprofessional that was and how it was the worst thing that could have happened. They made sure all the workers were OK money wise until the paychecks would deposit on Monday and I assured my husband that wasn't necessarily the worst thing as I had a job when I was in college where all our paychecks bounced-- for 2 weeks in a row! I would have been much more understanding about a computer error than an insufficient funds error.
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