My absolutely insane life

 A couple of weeks ago Brad mentioned to me that he wanted both of us to get our real estate license.  I thought he was crazy.  This was something I wanted to do years ago, but had to stop classes because at the time I had no one to watch the kids (back then classes were in person).  It was disappointing then, but my kids always came first.  After he mentioned it he told me he scheduled an appointment with a realty agency to talk to them.  He came home and was all signed up for the classes.  I decided I was going to go for it too, so off I went to meet with the guy, and I left his office enrolled in the online classes.   I came home and started working diligently on the classes, and studying fiercely.  School and studying has never come easy to me, but I worked and worked and worked.  One day my daughter came over and I told her what I was doing.  She said “mom have you heard of Quizlet?”  Nope, so off I went to explore that. ...

 I left my home in June to attend a wedding, and then from there headed off to my daughter’s house to await the birth of my grand baby.  I was gone a total of six weeks, and was super stressed out over what would happen to my garden.  This year (my first year doing this) I decided to plant a large (to me) garden.  My husband built me several boxes so that I could keep things orderly.  Everything was planted before I left, and my husband did the best he could taking care of it while I was gone.  When I came back I couldn’t believe how much everything had grown.  Honestly it was a little much for me to see because it was overgrown, there were weeds and it didn’t look anything like I had planned it to be.  That being said we are still getting a lot of vegetables from it.   One of the first things I decided to do was make pickles because we had so many cucumbers.  Yesterday I ran three batches of pickles through the canner.  I had plann...