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Good morning! I hope you are all well.

Eddie and I have been having a conversation about Chrystalyn. We’re trying to figure out ways to motivate Chrystalyn to organize her school assignments better so that she gets them turned in on time. While she has a planner and writes her tests down in it and she and Eddie have talked about where the best place to add assignments and their due dates in it are, we’re concerned that we may not be doing quite enough.

My theory is that this trend in not turning in assignments is more a bid for personal attention than it is any real deficiency in remembering they are due, and if that’s right, then going over a day planner with her once isn’t going to do the trick in the long run.

Any suggestions from my readers is gratefully appreciated.

Well, my day yesterday continued in it’s depressing fashion. I ended the day with a back ache so bad I took a pain pill with dinner and went to bed after eating. Poor Ken had to bring dogs in and do all the evening chores by himself. It’s not hurting so far this morning, but I’m being very careful of it as I have this feeling that it will flare back up again with very little provocation. I don’t really know what set it off yesterday in the first place, just knew that by the time I got to work it was pretty painful and by day’s end it was nearly unbearable.

I purchased the ingredients for raspberry bars Tuesday. I was going to make them right away, but there was an “invitation” passed around yesterday at work inviting us to a Christmas dinner here in the office with a office “bake off” contest being part of the celebrations. I think I’ll hold off and enter them in that.

There’s also a recipe in there for lemon bars and I may make them instead. I really don’t see Ken liking either one as he’s not a fan of raspberries at all and lemons don’t rank up there either. Of course, he’s not supposed to be eating any sweets period, but I should make something for him to take to work and share. He brings home so much yummy stuff.

His quest for the truck didn’t go as smoothly as he had envisioned yesterday. He had pulled his credit score from the internet yesterday morning before he left for work, but when the dealership pulled it to submit to finance (after all the wrangling Ken did on price), it came back 34 points lower than what he got online. He’s written to Equifax asking for an explanation of this discrepancy, so we’ll see what they say. It will more than likely be doublespeak, but at least he will have lodged his protest. So, for now, he’s still in the old truck and the other is on hold.

Well, that’s all about us for now.

Love to all,

Margaret