Wednesday's

Wednesdays are the hardest day of the week. Wednesday's are the day when so much get done, yet I feel like I have accomplished nothing.

You see, we run a not for profit company called Sole Aid. (check them out here: www.soleaid.org) One Wednesday's we do our shoe route. We go to all the local businesses that are collection sights and pick up what they have collected for the week. We leave our house to start the day at 10am. Because we live 15-20 minutes away from any remote civilization (town in this case), we don't get to start our route right away. Also because Wednesday is pay day for the hubs, it usually means a trip to the gas station for some gasoline on the way. We typically don't even touch a shoe until 10:30 am. In the middle of the shoe route we stop by the library. We drop off the books from the week before and get all new ones. The kids love this because then they can read (look) at something new in the car while we finish our route. We then finish up our route. After our route is done we head for the store to pick up the weeks groceries. Once again Wednesday is pay day and by this time each week our cupboards are bare and the kids are complaining there is nothing to eat. So I file all the kids into the store, get what we need, and then we head home. We usually do not arrive home until 1pm. We only arrive before 1pm if we do not go visit my mom and my brothers kids. Today we did just that. We went with them to the farmers market. This means we didn't get home until 4pm. By this time we needed to get the car unloaded, things put away, and about starting dinner.

So my point is this. A lot of stuff gets done because we get groceries, do our shoe route, and go to the library. A lot of stuff also doesn't get done. This such as laundry and other house work related things. I can only imagine Wednesday's will be that much harder when we add schooling into the mix.

By the way, only 13 days until we start officially here at the Rus Academy of Family learning. We are super excited. I will have to remember to take pictures of all our supplies and and little learning area and post pictures!