For once I can report that the weather was lovely this past week in our neck of the woods. There was sun, not too much heat, and only one day where it rained.
Today, however, the weather is going to get cold again, but not as cold as it was in early April, so I’ll take it. I don’t mind a few days of cuddling under a blanket with a good book and a cup of tea.
Last week I had one day where I could have tea but otherwise, it was cooler drinks like lemon in water, juices, and anything that would help keep us hydrated as the temperatures rose.
I mentioned last week that The Husband’s truck fell apart a bit and that it is in the shop, probably for quite a while, so we were without a car here at the house. That meant we found things to do in our yard instead of going to the playground. Little Miss was able to go to the playground at least one evening and also found a way to ride her bike down the grassy hill behind our house which was fun for her.
I spent more than one night on the back porch reading the cozy mystery I’ve been reading and that was very relaxing and nice. I plan to have the book finished today.
The Boy had a bit of a weird week. I forgot to mention in my post last week when I was talking about all the weird stuff happening in our family that The Boy was zapped with an electric current while working on installing a light at my parents. A switch accidentally got left on. He was fine but hadn’t been feeling well that week already and thought he was coming down with a cold.
On Saturday afternoon when The Husband called about his truck catching fire under the tire (we now know the ball bearing broke), I let The Boy know he’d need to watch his sister while I drove up to get a car to The Husband so he could continue on to his job. He said, “Oh, well, that’s a lot more serious than what I was going to tell you, which is that I can’t hear out of my right ear.”
We decided to wait it out a couple of days and see if the ear opened and drained on its own or if it was definitely an ear infection. I felt it probably was, but he wasn’t in a lot of pain. By Tuesday he was in more pain, so it was off to the doctor. The Husband took him, and it was about to become a full-blown ear infection so he was placed on an antibiotic.
The antibiotic isn’t making him feel very good at all – he’s extremely dragged out on it, so he hasn’t had the best week. His ear really hurt at the trade school he attends when they had a fire drill one day and he was standing near the fire alarm. In the end he missed a couple days of school and is just looking forward to when he’s done with the antibiotic.
I feel for the kid. In one week, he was electrocuted, developed an ear infection and then a side effect from the antibiotic. Despite all that he was fairly perky most of the week, so I was grateful he wasn’t completely knocked down.
School is almost over for the kids, and they are certainly looking forward to that.
We are taking it fairly easy for the last month by focusing on the arts – such as art and music and then some history and English.
We will have to finish up some math, but for the most we are done with science and math for the school year.
I am as excited about that as the kids.
We will be homeschooling next year as well, and I have to admit I’m already making plans for what we will study and hope to start some of it in July – easing our way into full-time school by mid-August. The Boy will be a senior next year. I haven’t yet wrapped my mind around that.
Today Little Miss is having some friends over to play. They’ve been looking forward to seeing each other in person after chatting with each other online most of the time since we live 45 minutes from them.
Tomorrow we will most likely have lunch with my parents like we do most Sundays. So far, I don’t have a ton on tap for next week. I’m hoping to work on my book, write a couple blog posts and book reviews, and hopefully have the sinus pressure I developed yesterday goes away and I’m not the next one on an antibiotic.
How was your week? Let me know in the comments or if you have a weekly catch up type post you can leave a link in the link up. You don’t have to share about your week the same way I do to link up, of course.
