Welcome to the Saturday Afternoon Chat where I  . . . um . . . . chat. Ha!

Anyhow, I can’t offer you tea today because I am out of tea! I can offer you some lemonade, water, coffee, chocolate milk or plain, whole, lactose-free milk.

(I do have one tea that my blogging friend Bettie sent me but the cinnamon is a bit overpowering, just to give you a heads up. I’ll still make you some if you want it, though. *wink*)

We had fall temperatures this week and I loved it!

I just wanted to share that with all of you.

On Tuesday it was so nice and cool that I made ham and bean soup and it was seriously so comforting. On Monday Little Miss had some sort of allergy attack or brief illness, but I am guessing it was simply sinus issues because she gets these off and on and allergies have been high in our area. By Wednesday I had the same thing but no fever at all. I’m pretty certain we were all dealing with issues from the weather change, which was from very hot to nice and cool.

On Friday the humidity came back and we have some of that today but the temperature is still in the high 70s, which I am fine with.

Our little allergy attack or whatever, threw our week off a bit but that’s okay because we didn’t have a ton scheduled anyhow. Sadly we didn’t get to go swimming but we hope to later today and also tomorrow.

On Thursday we went to my parents to have lunch with my mom for her birthday. It had to be a quick lunch because I had to take my son back to the town we live in (seven minutes away) for him to get to work and Little Miss back for gymnastics.

Yesterday, The Husband, me, and the kids had lunch out together and then The Husband went grocery shopping while the kids and I sat in the new truck like a bunch of slugs. We didn’t help because The Husband moves fast and we can’t keep up. He’s very efficient and we tend to distract him.

Right now I am sitting on my daughter’s bed writing this blog post because it is one of the coolest rooms upstairs once the air conditioning and fan are on. I really wish the humidity would go away again.

Our cat, Scout, is sitting next to me which is very unusual because she’s normally outside exploring. This is the second day she’s chosen to stay inside and nap so I hope she is okay. She’s a hunter and loves to take down mice, moles, birds, and snakes. Her not doing that has me a little worried, but maybe she’s just catching up on some sleep.

Little Miss says maybe she just wants to hang out with me and I suppose that is a possibility.

This week was a lot slower than other weeks and we needed that.

I was supposed to start a new job next week but found out some very disturbing things about the owners of the magazine I was going to work for so I backed out.

What’s odd is that when I searched up the name of the potential employers at first all I saw were their own sites and anything positive but when I did the same on my phone (to see if there were any former employees who commented on sites about the fairness of their compensation offer) the name of the company with the word scandal came up. It was almost like God wanted me to see the posts and information about the scandal that happened about 9 years ago.

That sent me off down rabbit holes I did not want to go down and eventually led me to someone who had been involved in a very sick situation involving the owners and their family. Once I confirmed the stories were true, I sent an email and withdrew my acceptance of the offer.

It is very sad and sick how people in leadership roles take advantage of others and then act like dark things that happened never happened simply because the individuals don’t want to give up their power and money.

It was disappointing that I wouldn’t have an opportunity to make some extra money as our family really needs it right now, but I could not, in good conscience, work for people who covered up very serious crimes and in some cases perpetrated those crimes.

I’m not really sure I would have made money in the job anyhow with the way the payment structure was set up. Plus, the company was very legalistic in their Christian views and that’s a bit scary for me considering some of my background.

This upcoming week we don’t have anything scheduled but I have planning to do for homeschool and my parents’ 60^th anniversary party in September.

How was your week last week? Anything exciting coming up this week? Let me know in the comments!