Hi there.

Not only did I not get a second newsletter out last month, my previous email had an incorrect link in it. Here is the correct link to my July book recap. I also meant to get a look ahead to August done with all my ARCs and stuff, but never did. If I can summon up the energy this weekend, I’ll get my August recap and my September sneak peak posts written up, though.

We’ve got two weeks of school in the books and I’m just tired. Seems like middle immediately brought something home the middle of the first week (not difficult as he has asthma/a narrow airway and just picks up things so easily) that has since been passed onto the rest of us as of last night. It’s just a mild cold, but with his health issues, we’re monitoring it closely and keeping on top of his rescue inhaler use to hopefully keep it from getting worse and requiring a doctor’s visit. With youngest, it’s also just a case of wait and see if we’ll need a doctor’s appointment. With her being so young still, even a mild cold can be enough to knock her out, but hopefully we can avoid that for both of them. The rest of us is just a kind of wait and see, but oldest seems to have some ear pain, too. So, that’s just great.

We managed to get a couple more pool visits in before it closed up for the summer and I got a less blinding shade of pale even with sunscreen. The goal next year is to get in there much more often and, if we’re lucky, youngest will be able to start pre-k at our elementary school and I’ll have the first two weeks they’re in school to go to the pool every day all by myself. 😂😂

I’d really hoped to get back on the daytime stream train once the older two were back in school, but have truly struggled with that because youngest is thrilled to have my full attention for most of the day again and has been making the most of it. I also really need to get her potty trained and that’s not really conducive to streaming.

We’ve also had maintenance coming in and out of the apartment for weeks: our dishwasher has been broken for a couple weeks, our clothes washer has been making a terrible grinding noise for months and they never seem to fix it and it recently wouldn’t continue a cycle… neither of these things have been fixed still. The clothes washer at least is still functional, but the eczema on my hands is not pleased with the amount of dishwashing I’ve had to do, though.

Since I started drafting this, we had a second tire pop on our car and a third one is bald. After paying for a tow and new tires, we’re out over $600 and we were already barely hanging on by a thread, so all-told, we’re in the hole about $1200 right now. I hate to keep doing this, but any help would be great.

If you can help, anything would be appreciated at this point:

• Ko-Fi

• Tarot Readings

• Crochet

I feel like I had a bunch more to say, but I’m feeling so overwhelmed lately that my brain has kind of done a bluescreen in this moment and is also lagging.

Anyway.

Thanks for being here,
Mary 💜