we’re getting our act together and going nowhere

We’ve been bizzy little beavers the last couple days – actually *I* have been a bizzy little beaver – and we’re starting to get back into a groove again.  One thing the boys identified that they wanted changed was more of a structure to life.  After eons of spontaneous life I’m actually beginning to enjoy structure.  I never imagined I’d like any imposed structure but I’m actually enjoying it.

We’ve been having weekly family meetings and last week Pike decided he wanted another week off of any academics and Jesse has never wanted any academics so that was easy.  Today we all figured out a schedule that we want to try for academics and the kids continued working on thank you cards (we are anticipating an exciting experiment in mailing letters from Mexico!) and I continued organizing.  Since we live outside, all kitchen stuff is exposed to the elements and gets dust and dirt and nocturnal animal exposure.  I cleaned out all the cabinets and re-organized stuff.  Today I started tackling the refrigerators.  They are supposed to be cleaned weekly by Jesse but sometimes that doesn’t happen and he really doesn’t *clean* – just kind of glances around for obvious rot.  Since we now have THREE refrigerators and really only one that works, it is a large job.  Today I got the trailer fridge cleaned and organized and tomorrow I’ll work on the others while I sit and obsess about whether or not I have a phone call coming my way.

My leg gets better and better and i expect I’ll be back at full ability in a couple days.  I’ve probably lost speed but I’m hoping I’ll be able to put a full effort into the walks in a day or two.

I was finally able to pin the kids down to their KIVA recipients and they really wanted two of them, so they decided (suggested by me) to all put $5 from their Christmas haul into the pot and select two recipients.  Nicaragua is the first recipient and Peru is the second.  I’m really excited to see what happens – I had asked the boys to pick 5 recipients and of Pike’s five, four had been funded by the time we got around to lending.

And the biggest news is that my mareo, my dizziness, my dysequilibrium, whatever you want to call it, seems to have gone the way of the old year.  It has been a good week without any weirdness and I’m hoping it lasts.