Just dropping in to fulfill my contractually obligated blog post. It's been crazy. Actually, it's been pretty crazy, as Joanna points out, since December 27th. (We took December 26th off to recover from the pre-Christmas craziness, you see.) On Wednesday the carpet got finished up and we spent the balance of the day putting the house back together. It looks fantastic, but we were wiped out.
But we were also faced with grumpy kids, more adjustments to be made, and a house that would be full of those heretofore unexpected carpet fumes. So we chucked the whole thing and went for a family vacation. We loaded up the van, agreed that no word of the house, home school, or any other pressing thing would be mentioned, and motored down to to San Diego.
We spent the night in a hotel (a bit strange with all the kids—Born Dancin' found the wall-length mirror at the Ramada the most entertaining thing she'd found in days and spent the evening posing, spinning, and giggling), and yesterday was spent at the San Diego Zoo, where I do believe we saw every animal ever created and rode the Skyride a handful of times. It was a fine day and helped out psyches a lot.
Today was back to the office for me for an all-out cram session to try to get everything ready for the semester starting on Monday. I'm nothing like prepared, but I still don't begrudge spending yesterday on more recuperative activities. And now it seems I've missed our staff in-service and other activities today, which I don't even remember hearing about. Not an auspicious start, but I'm hoping to get into the swing of things over the weekend in a somewhat normal home and start afresh next week.
Now it's off home to get ready for the grandparents to visit and prepare to show Grandma how to play the Wii...
2 comments:
What a delightful interlude! I have never been to the San Diego Zoo, but have it on my list of things to do someday. My aunt lives in San Diego (I only have the one left) and I have often thought I really should go visit her sometime. Maybe next year. This year seems pretty full of trips!
I do love reading your posts, Michael, I am glad you are fulfilling your contract with such verve.
TM
I'm so glad that you guys got away for a little bit and had a fun day in San Diego! I do love the San Diego Zoo, and have spent MANY a day there looking at it all and climbing the hills (we lived less than five minutes from it when Micah and I were first married). I can imagine the boys must have LOVED seeing all of those animals. The new semester will start just fine, don't feel guilty for a second about taking some time with the family.
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