Happy Labor Day to our readers here in the United States.  I always have mixed feeling about this day.  Isn’t it a little bit of a slap in the face for a country that does not guarantee its workers paid time off to set aside a day to celebrate the American worker?  Maybe it just feels that way to me because I am one of the 25% of American workers who is not given the benefit of holiday pay, sick pay, or vacation time.

Anyway …

It’s been both very buzy and a bit chaotic here.  Things seem to be starting to settle down again now.

Reya will be dropping back to a half-day program at her outpatient program.  For the next two weeks this will include a tutoring component.  The 17th will find us at a meeting to rework her IEP and if all goes well, she will return to her own high school on the 20th.

Sephoni tested for and received her brown belt in Tae Kwon Do.  Additionally, she has been invited to join the demo team, something she has hoped for and worked toward for a while now.  She enters 5th grade this year and is excited to be able to “rule the school.”

We have officially opened our Etsy shop.  For now there is only one item listed, but hopefully I will be getting a few items up every week between now and the end of the year.  Our initial focus is on crocheted items – both wearable and housewares, but I have a number of other items planned as well.

We have finished the bulk of the work in Sephoni’s room.  So now both girls are in freshly painted, recently rearranged, and newly accessorized rooms.

We have taken advantage of the cooler temperatures and put up both a pot of vegetable stew (recipe to come the next time I make it) and a pot of vegetarian chili con carne.  We have aired out the upstairs.

I will be working 3-9 today, which cuts our holiday short.  And I have to work 6 out of 7 days this week in order to get my full 40 hours.

Hoping to return to your regularly scheduled programming soon.  In the meantime we hope that you are enjoying the last days of summer (or Winter if you read us in the Southern hemisphere).  Before we know it the Equinox will be upon us and the seasons will turn.

Blessings

Jia

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