Unfortunately, August was fairly uneventful. Both Emily and Caitlyn had to help me make meals and things when we got back as I could not put any weight on my right foot. They went to DI to get me a pair of crutches as well.
School started for Christian and Caitlyn shortly after. Emily continued to help me around the house and to take her sister to school and pick her up as well. By the second week, I was able to put some weight on my foot and limp a bit with one crutch. Emily took me shopping and I was able to help out a bit more.
By the third week, I could limp around without a crutch for the most part. Emily continued to drive Caitlyn back and forth from school and she also continued to drive me to the market.
The girls took a trip to the beach one day. Emily has been planning to go since she got back. She's always loved the beach but we never enjoyed the traffic and the crowds to take her. Marian came by to see Emily while she was here and brought a bunch of Korean food over.
We drove down to San Diego one weekend to see Brandon. He is back from his mission and was giving his return Missionary talk. His whole family planned to descend on Ramona to see him. It was nice to get together with the whole family again. Luckily, it went off without too much drama.
Emily and I went to see my mom and have lunch with her. We also spent some time going around the asian stores to look for goodies. When we were done, we stopped by to grab a couple of boba drinks for the road and ran into Debbie and Collin. They went to the bakery next door. We said hello but we were already pulling away when we saw them and we had to hit the road as we were running a bit late. We had Caitlyn go home with a friend and needed to pick her up. Christian got back home before we did and ended up picking her up himself.
After a couple of weeks of school, Caitlyn was able to drop her first period English class and take an English class at RCC instead. That way, she will only have the class for just this semester and will be done at the end of the year. It satisfies her graduation requirements and gives her college credit to boot. The only other two classes she needs to graduate will be Economics and Government. Both of which she is also currently taking and are both only semester long classes. She has sent in a petition to graduate early as her school does not offer anything else she wants or needs. She is basically done with school. The whole shut down pretty much ruined her high school experience anyway.
I spent some time working on some food that Emily missed. She spent some time working on getting her own car insurance this year. She also got her first credit card to work on her credit history. Plus, she got her card number stolen about a month or two ago, so we wanted her to make most of her purchases on a credit card instead of using her debit card in case something like that happened again. Luckily, the bank denied the fraudulent use of her card right away and closed it for her so she just had to just wait a week or so to get a new card issued to her.
At the end of the month, Emily decided to head back to Rexburg. With having to pay car insurance and will have to pay her rent tuition for the fall in a couple more weeks, she returned to school to try again to find a job. We pray that she will have better luck this time.
