There's A New Kid In Town

 There's a new kid and a returned kid. Soren is back with us for a while. His mom had a baby last Friday; we welcomed Lincoln Gene into the family at 2:46pm, weighing in at 4 lbs 14 oz and 18" tall. 

 Soren has been staying with us till his mom is able to take care of him at home and its taking our entire village to care for him because with the Covid BULLSHIT going on, he is home schooled & suddenly I'm in 3rd grade. 

It's all online & with books provided by the school but his lazy ass mom didn't see the need to pick up his books in the previous 2 months he was in school & then they moved & didn't have internet for another 2 weeks so he's really behind. But Soren is a trooper & while class is in session he does great. He enjoys participating and speaks right up. He also gets the math very well. We went to the school & gathered his books & supplies so he is liking it even more.

Mom was released yesterday and came home, got a nice long shower and packed a bag to go back to the hospital. Little Lincoln was born a month early & there have been complications so he has to stay a while longer. Mom is lucky that she can stay in the hospital with him. I've done a lot of baby shopping in the last 2 weeks and they should be pretty well set, at least for a while. I hope she doesn't expect me to do this all the time, I do have my own bills I'd like to pay. Baby Daddy stayed in the hospital with her from Friday till yesterday, then he stayed home last night. I hope he's looking for another job because he hasn't worked in 3 weeks & I'm not paying their rent.

I've decided to have Christmas here & I'm telling everyone that we'll do a gift exchange, $20 limit. I'll tell everyone that families/couples only need to get one gift. Here's the kicker: I'm giving everyone the same name on their gift person, that will be SOREN. 

Soren

9 years old

size 8 shirts & 8 slim pants

size 3 shoes

Likes: Beyblade toys; they had this at Walmart for $29.99 three days ago, now its $43.  Hhhmmm...

I want to find some nice little baby toys, rattles & stuff but with Lincoln I can get away with just a single toy, he won't know.

We Travel A LOT

 We took another trip to Las Vegas, this time just to relax. But it as 103* there every day & we chose to do a lot of hiking in the desert. 

Day 1: to El Dorado mine area, about 7.5 miles. Then Jubilee mine & swam in Lake Meade.

Day 2: to Mt Charleston & hiked UP to a waterfall, 2.5 miles, then home to the pools.

Day 3: Didn't hike this day but spent the day in town going to junk stores & just doing nothing. Swam in the lazy river & the pool, felt great. 

Day 4: Valley of Fire State Park, which is BEAUTIFUL, and a hike to a ghost town, 2.5 miles.

Day 5: Started our drive home, up highway 93. About 40 miles north of Las Vegas we almost died when a semi truck didn't see us & drove into our lane of traffic, head on. He had to leave the road on our right to avoid us, and we had a semi passing us at 70mph on each side of us. Scary shit. But we made it to Jackrabbit Tunnel and explored there till dark. I found an old rusty metal bed frame, brought that sucker home.

I had flown down, Lan had driven with his parents. They bought a brand new class C RV & were picking it up in Draper, Utah, so Lan dropped them off & then picked me up on Sunday morning at LAS. I had paid for our R/T air flights in July, $255 for both of us & I only used one of mine, making it expensive but we had a better trip because we were able to drive home together and see more.