Unexpected

This has been a week of the unexpected.  Last Friday some of our dearest friends were married, so our school day was slightly abbreviated.  Another good friend is moving from Michigan to Kentucky, so he had a going away party Saturday, plus we were able to get tickets to see the Irish Comedy Tour a few hours away on Monday night.

We planned to delay our school week until Tuesday, but now it seems like the delay may last just a bit longer....when we came home on Tuesday early afternoon, the house was unusually cool.  The city's water keeps freezing, but until this week, we've been fortunate to avoid the effects of the frozen pipes.  Not so much now.  None of the pipes in our home are frozen, but we have no water coming in.  No water is a bummer, but that in and of itself is manageable.  However, our furnace is a steam radiator system....that means it needs water to run.  So, without water, we have no heat.  NOT something that is fun to manage in the frozen North.

SO - off to the hotel our family did drive.  With four children under 8, two of which are 2 and under, staying in a house without a reliable form of heat in the middle of one of the coldest winters on record isn't really recommended.  I mean, we can melt snow for water, but there isn't much we can do for no heat.  The Kerosene heater is great, but not something we want to run non-stop for days at a time.

Getting ready to go swimming, I notice Savannah has a ton of random blotches like Mosquito bites all over her skin that are just suddenly appearing.  She had croup last week, and was given meds that she is clearly allergic to.  So, my poor girl is covered in hives that seem to come and go as soon as her benedryl and steroid prescription start to wear off.  It's tough to see her itching.  :(

On the upside, this is a review week and Trevor is covering again, so even though we have missed a few days of our normal school week, we can make up for it relatively quickly.  With Trev covering shifts, we will do school for the next 8 days straight, then take a 3-day weekend before returning to our normal weekly schedule.  Next week was supposed to be our Spring break, but with the weather being so iffy, and Trev having to work, I think we will push our break back just a bit longer...it's hard to believe that school will be done in just another 8ish weeks, which means we really need to start deciding what we want to do for next year.

I am still leaning towards doing some school throughout the summer.  Take a month off, maybe six weeks, then start back up for four weeks, take a week or two off, then do it again.  We will be able to take more time off throughout the year, and I think it will be good for the kids over all.  It might mean that we will finish more like two years in the span of one average "school year" but it would give us even more flexibility in our schedule and allow us to plan even more extracurricular activities.