Coming home yesterday I realized how much I love living in Idaho. The colors of fall were amazing. I love that 30 minutes from where we live we are in the mountains. Then there is the river. The kids had a great time at their grandpa's house four wheeling, running around the property, playing night games. It is so gorgeous up there. Even though I never want to live there it is still a nice place to visit. Despite having one of the lowest wages in the country in has one of the lowest cost of living as well. I feel safe with my kids going to school. It is one of the few places where you can buy a decent home for less then $200k. Is it perfect? No but it is where I call home.
This has been a tough week. I worked some extra hours which were only five hour shifts but were still were time away from the kids. Kids are at their breaking point and wether or not they know it they need schedules and some stablness. School starts Tuesday and comments about how people hope my kids dont kill their teachers with COVID is neither helpful or accurate. Plus we had a budget meeting after months of no meetings. In which we found out that we had once again over spent in August. Which could have been stopped if we would have known earlier in the month. I sent $1500 to student loans. Andrew turned eight yesterday and I am so thankful for him. He is become such a deep thinker and asks these amazing questions that I don't always have the answers to. The meds have helped slow him down but he is still crazy Andrew. We upped the medications and it was like he was on speed. He couldn't sleep and was kind of zombie like. Then there has been a few moments wher
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