Friday: Lunar eclipse, operation: clean the house

We all woke up in the middle of the night to see the lunar eclipse.  We went outside a bit before totality and stayed until a few minutes after totality started.  The weather was nice.  Cool, in the high 40s, but that's actually pretty warm for us right now.  I thought getting up was worthwhile, but Joshua was more on the fence.  Anyway, I enjoyed it and had a nice time.

The biggest problem is that Ben and I had a hard time getting back to sleep.  Still worth it.

I worked on the basement for a few hours this morning, finally getting a few locations vacuumed and stuff in its "final storage spot".  It doesn't really look much cleaner, but progress is being made.  I think I need to make a trip to get rid of the donations - it will free up some space in the basement and just make it look cleaner.

Also, happy Pi day!  Joshua was the only one of us that had real pie, but we had a lot of circle foods.

Thursday: rather boring

Today was rather boring.  That's not all bad, but not really fun either.

All the students show up for the exam.  I think there were a few other big exams that weren't allowing make-ups, so they had to be around.  Then they might as well come to my class too.

Wednesday: unexpected

We had some electricians come today.  They added a bunch of lights to the storage room, changed the light fixtures in the main area, and added a few plugs throughout the house.  I've been excited about the lights every time I've turned them on.  Also, the old housing were almond and the new ones are white and look so much better.

However, it seemed like someone was always in the location that I needed to be in.  But even with that I managed to finish a ton of things on my to-do list.  It was rather surprising.

Monday: mostly back to normal

Things were mostly back to normal today: Ben went to work, Joshua went to school, and I did my chores.  Isaac has been normal, or as normal as he ever gets, this whole time.

That all being said, it wasn't a very interesting day.  The weather is starting to warm up (low 50s today) so I didn't wear a coat.  I got my winter tires taken off and my all-season tires put on.  I didn't go to karate just to give myself a bit longer to get better - I'm close, but I'm not sure I'm exercise close.

Due to the snow day, my class ended up with a test the day before spring break.  I normally only have 1/2-2/3 of the students in class, and about half of the students that are gone are gone for reasons that they can't really control.  ("The baseball team is leaving early."  "My ride home is leaving two days early."  We won't talk about my feelings with this, because no one really cares.)  Anyway, I gave two alternate times for students to take the test so that we don't have to worry about it after break.  Well, I had one....one!...student sign up to take advantage of this.  I'm fluctuating now between wondering if the students completely ignored my communication attempts and will be gone or if everyone will actually be in class.  Stay tuned.

Saturday: still recovering

 The morning was pretty good.  I was feeling pretty good and Joshua didn't have a fever and was moving around more like normal.  We had an almost normal morning.

Late afternoon though, I started feeling gross.  Just tired and yucky, but annoying.  The days always start out so good and end so yucky.

In the morning we were building Lego and we watched Tornado slowly steal Ben's screwdriver.  Tornado always likes it a lot, but then whenever Ben would look at Tornado he would stop playing with the screwdriver and act all nonchalant.  It was pretty funny.

Friday: even better

 I actually did stuff today.  Sure, I've done stuff the past few days I've been home, but this was the first time I enjoyed doing the stuff and got more finished than just the minimum amount.  I'm still not 100%, but I'm probably at a good 85%.

We thought Joshua was on the mend but he had a fever again in the morning, about an hour after waking up.  He did, however, have a few dance moves after dinner so he was feeling at least a little better. He is still only whispering which is rather annoying.

vacation: Vespa ride

Vespa rides were one of the highlights of the week.  I glossed over them because I wasn't part of the riding, but the kids loved them.  And Ben let both boys drive by themselves for a little bit, which was *the best*.