Happy Friday, y’all! I hope you’ve had an amazing week. Did you miss the Weekly Wrap-Up last week? Yeah, I’m sorry about that. We had an unexpected family issue come up. It wasn’t an issue of the fun variety, but we’re doing well now. Thank you to everyone who checked up on us.

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. Megan and I have been finalizing 11th–grade curriculum plans. We’re waiting for one last set to arrive – marine biology from Apologia – and we’ll be set.

I’m really excited about all that Megan will be studying this year (and all that I’ll be learning alongside her). She’s not terribly excited about starting school, but she is interested in the topics she’ll be covering.

I’m also really excited for Josh. He’s going to be working at the church on the production team. It’s such a great opportunity for him because he is interested in working in the audio-visual field in some capacity. This will be a fantastic way for him to gain experience in that area.

Last Saturday, I drove Megan, her cousin, and a friend down to Atlanta for a show at the Fox Theater. They had a blast. I was just happy I didn’t have to sit through it. I was going to, but when we found out that my niece wanted to go, Megan called the theater to see if I could wait in the lobby without a ticket. They said I could, so I gave my niece my ticket.

I could not.

Well, there is a large foyer-type area where I could wait, but there was nowhere to sit and no concessions. So, I walked a couple of blocks to The Varsity, which I’ve known about forever but never eaten at.

I may get kicked out of Georgia for saying this, but I don’t see what all the fuss is about. It wasn’t that great. However, it did have seats, Coke, and air conditioning, so I was grateful to hang out there a couple of hours.

Y’all, I am loving my Litter Robot! I can’t wait to share the full review with you, along with the story of how I came to hear about it, but for now, I’ll just say that the thing I hated most about being the crazy cat lady was scooping litter boxes. I was scooping three boxes every three days. I haven’t scooped cat litter since I got the Litter Robot! I love it!

I know it’s hard to tell in this picture, but Finn is giving the Litter Robot two thumbs up.

Plus, now we’re down to just the one box. All of the cats can use it since it goes through its clean cycle each time it’s used. Life-changing may be overstating just a bit (or maybe not), but it has made my crazy cat lady life so much easier! (And cleaner and better-smelling!)

Now, I’m off to enjoy my weekend and my last week of summer break. I see a little school-planning in my very near future. (I’m kind of excited about it, though.) Have a great weekend, friends!

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Happy Friday, y’all! Did you have a great week? Can you believe that we’re right here at the end of July already? I really need someone to explain to me how summer can pass so quickly. {sigh}

We’ve had a good week. Megan started her new job – and drove herself to and from! I’m not going to lie. That is nice. I mean, I know there’s my whole “baby growing up” and all, but I am not sad to retire my chauffeur hat.

Brianna and Dobby (the ferret) came up to visit for a few days. Sophie (our ferret) and Dobby were only together one night before Brianna took him home after we got her so I was excited for them to see each other. They both seem to like having another ferret to play with.

Sophie and her houseguest

Sophie is definitely in the right family, though. As much as she enjoyed having a playmate, I think she was just as ready to have her pen back to herself.

In super-exciting, never-thought-it-would-really-happen news, we got confirmation last week that our house is paid off!! We’re still waiting on all the paperwork, but no more house payments!

Now, we’re ready to start doing some much-needed home improvements. I’m thinking that our woefully out-of-date kitchen might be first.

I’m just thinking that this might be the reason Sophie doesn’t sleep as soundly as other ferrets.

In other super-exciting, but in a very different way, news, I am anxiously awaiting a delivery that may just change my life. Last week, when I went to pick up my groceries at Walmart, the lady who brought them out noticed my 38 pounds of cat litter. She started telling me about the automatic litter box she has called the Litter Robot.

I immediately came home and looked it up. Mine is supposed to be delivered today! All you cat-lovers out there can understand my excitement when I say no more scooping cat litter!! I’m way more excited about this litter box than a person ought to be. I’ll be telling you more about it after we’ve used it a few weeks.

I’ve got it on my to-do list to take photos of the curriculum we’ll be using in the upcoming year so that I can update my curriculum page and share it with you. I’m really excited about the new school year. Not excited like I’m ready to start tomorrow or anything. Just excited like it will be fun when it gets here.

What new (or old favorite) curriculum are you most excited about using next year?

I guess since August is right around the corner, I need to start thinking about when, exactly, we – you know, Megan, my only student, and me – are going to start school. I’m thinking mid-August. When are you starting?

Now, I’m off to enjoy the last relaxing weekend I’ll have for a couple of weeks. We have plans for the next two weekends. {sigh} I am such a homebody.

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Happy Friday, y’all! I hope you’ve all had a fantastic week. It’s been a rather eventful one here. It started last Friday. Brian and I went out to dinner and were discussing, of all things, ferrets. You know we ferret-sat for Brianna last week with her new ferret.

I have never wanted a ferret. Ever.

My sister and my mom have had them and, although they’re cute, they stink. I thought the same thing about Brianna’s first ferret even though he was super-cute. There was something about this ferret, though. Brian and I got attached to him and didn’t want to see him go.

So, last Friday, I had been sending Brianna links to ferrets on Craigslist to see if we could buy her another one and keep the one we’d gotten for her. Yeah, I was that bad.

She didn’t like any of them. She wanted her ferret.

While we were at dinner, Brianna called to say she was coming up later that evening – a little bit to see Brian on his birthday but mostly to claim her ferret. As soon as I got off the phone with her, Brian asked if I wanted to go to PetCo.

Yes, we were seriously considering buying another ferret – to trade Brianna for the one we bought her. Go ahead. Laugh. It’s okay.

We didn’t expect them to have any because we had called all the PetCo stores around us the weekend before we went to pick up the new ferret last weke.

When we got there, they had one ferret – a sweet little four-month-old female who’d been returned twice. The first owners thought they could just let her run around the house unsupervised all day and got mad when she chewed stuff up. The second ones were trying to keep her in a small guinea pig cage.

Before we left, Brian had already decided that she was our ferret. Brianna was not getting her. I usually name the animals, but before we were out of the parking lot, he had named her Sophie.

She is the cutest, sweetest, most playful little thing. As much as I love her already, I think Brian is even crazier about her.

Does she stink? Yeah. I mean, mostly it’s her pen even though I have literally cleaned it every day. But that’s okay. Her sheer adorableness makes up for it. (That doesn’t mean that we’re not looking closely at her diet and adding additives to her food to try to cut down on the odor.)

We have told Brianna that she has to bring Dobby (named for the elf in Harry Potter who, like the ferret, loved to steal socks) to visit whenever she visits. If you think one ferret is cute, you should see two of them playing together.

Also last Friday, Megan got offered the job she interviewed for on Thursday and really, really wanted. She was so excited. Not only is it a place she really wanted to work, but it’s a significant raise from what she was making.

Then, on Tuesday, she took her road test to get her driver’s license. She passed! My baby can now drive all by herself. {sigh} I don’t know where the years go, y’all.

Now, I’m off to enjoy what should be a relaxing weekend. I guess I’ll have to start thinking about planning for school soon. But not today. Have a fantastic weekend!

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Happy Friday, y’all! Oh, my word. What a week! Y’all know I’m a homebody, right? Well, I haven’t been home much this week and it was all completely unexpected.

It started when Brianna’s ferret died suddenly and completely unexpectedly on Saturday while she was visiting us. She was heartbroken. Devastated. I know a lot of people won’t get that, but he was more than just a ferret to her.

When she got married, she moved to a new town about 2 hours away. She knows no one. Although she visits often, she misses home and her friends and family here. Duke, the ferret, was her companion when Andrew was working. He was the first pet that she’s been completely responsible for living on her own. He was her baby.

Brian and I were just sick over it. You know how it is to see your kids so sad and there’s nothing you can do about it. So, we offered to buy her a new ferret. We knew we couldn’t replace her little buddy but we also knew that a new ferret would fill that void when she was back home and feeling lonely.

She said she didn’t want one at first. Then, she got back home and got to really missing Duke, so she started sending me links for ferrets on Craigslist. We found one that she was interested in. It was about 2 hours from us – in the opposite direction from her. So, we met her about halfway and she rode with us for the other two hours.

We got home at 12:30 in the morning. {sigh} With the ferret. Brianna and Andrew are having to have some work done on their apartment this week, so they thought it would be better for us to keep the ferret until the weekend. That may not have been a good decision. He’s so sweet and fun and he’s used to dogs. You should see him playing with Belle and Peanut.

I could get attached to this little guy.

Then, Tuesday, we got up and headed to Brianna’s house (with the ferret, but he came back home with us) to help her get some stuff done. We got home at 8:00 p.m.

Wednesday I had a long overdue lunch date planned with a friend. We chatted for nearly 4 hours! So, it was late when I got home on Wednesday, too.

Yesterday, I really wanted to hole up in the house all day and refuse to leave, but Megan had a job interview and needed a ride. And, we had dinner at my mom’s.

Somebody was very curious about the ferret’s pen.

Today may be the day that I become a hermit. One can hope. {grin} I know it won’t be tomorrow because that’s Brian’s birthday. I won’t tell all his business or anything, but I will say that it’s a milestone. And, it rhymes with nifty. {big Cheshire cat grin}

Y’all have a great weekend! I think I’m going to go play with a ferret before I have to give him back to his person.

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