A large family, homeschooling, adoption, special needs, whatever strikes my fancy, sort of blog.

A large family, homeschooling, adoption, special needs, whatever strikes my fancy, sort of blog.

Monday, May 25, 2020

Foster Kittens and Face Masks


I've been keeping track of my mask production in a composition book, and I did some counting yesterday and discovered I've made 363 masks, with more cut out, and I've given at least 60 away. 


(Sam and Annaliese's masks were made by me.  Eli's mask was not made by me, but I have sent him a couple, now that he has a new address.)


I love the horrified look on Grumman's face in this picture. 


This is Tobias/Toby.


And this is Murphy. 


They're staying with us for a couple weeks until they can get altered and adopted. 


It has been a sweet and welcome distraction to have baby kitties in the house again.


Although, when my lap is the nap location, I'm obligated to sit still until they're done napping, so I'm not getting all that much accomplished. 


I'm more or less okay with that.  These guys have had their issues.  We're doing eye drops twice a day, and they just finished a round of antibiotics, but surprisingly Grumman has come around to the idea of them being here.  He was totally freaked out by the kitten we fostered last year, so this is good progress.  He's been sparring with them, and I even noticed a little social grooming.  I don't think we'll see them napping in a pile by the time they leave this week, but it gives me hope that Grumman may not have to be an only child forever. 


So, now that we're no longer matching lipstick and nail polish (not that I ever was, really), how about matching your face mask to your shoes?  Grumman had to get in the shot to see/sniff what I was up to.  Notice the kitten scratches on my foot?  My legs pretty much look like that from the knee down. 


We're getting really close to the end of the school year.  Katie's math assignments this week were "play a math game."  So I had her do online drills (xtramath.com) and use geometry and spacial reasoning skills to fit the pattern blocks into the hexagon tray one day...


...and the triangle tray another day.


Photo from Zach.  They're settling in to their new place, and the boys went fishing and Brayden caught a fish!


Eli made it through a weird COVID version of boot camp.  He's now an Airman!  Proud of my boy, but missing him, as well.  Very disappointed that we weren't allowed the graduation experience that we had with Zach when he became an Airman.  But he's healthy, and waiting to start tech school, and I hear from him more often now that he has his phone back. 

Remember our twin visitors from a couple years back?  Well, times are hard for their family, so I cleaned out the girls' closet and took them over 3 bags of clothes to replace a load of mildewed laundry.  On a slightly related note, I took 2 loads of baby/kid clothing/supplies to our crisis pregnancy center, since they're one of the only organizations in the area accepting donations right now.  Most of this was stuff I'd been hanging on to since the twins left, "just in case" Paul changed his mind about fostering.  I let it go because 1) that doesn't seem to be happening, and 2) I'd rather have someone be able to use those things than have them sit here and make me sad. 

With all the crazy guidelines being floated about school for the fall, we're still contemplating what The Plan will be for our students.  I'm open to homeschooling, as I know it would be far easier than the "distance learning" nonsense we've done the last couple months.  We'll see! 

3 comments:

  1. I hear you about the weirdness of this coming school year! I'm still homeschooling all of my pre-college crew, but my college-age students don't know which way is up, and we don't know what to do about testing for my traditionally-college-bound student.

    Congrats to Eli! And congrats to Brayden for catching a fish!

    I totally, totally sympathize with you about the clothing and supplies and fostering situation. We're limited by our family size and situation right now, but I still feel so pulled to foster/adopt again. Sir Walter Scott looks at me like I have 3 eyes when I say such things. :)

    Your kitties are sweet. So sweet. Makes me want some kitties to sit in my lap and keep me from getting things done.

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    1. Eli's girlfriend's college is going to be online in the fall. Weird, yes. But it will give her the freedom to be able to visit him once the bases open up again.

      Kittens are sweet, but they're more work than I remember until they're here, lol. Incidentally, Josiah tells me that I don't *really* want to foster, I just think I do, and it would actually be overwhelming and not fun. :sigh:

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