Divide and Conquer

Well, I don't know about the conquering part, but we did divide up yesterday.  In fact, we were so divided that it made for a long day and a lot of tired people.  So we are thankful for this quiet weekend to recover.  That is also why I am a day late blogging about our Friday experiences.


We started out at the crack of dawn trying to get everyone up and out the door.  Michael was off to the regional VA clinic to have some suspicious skin markings on his face.  He had a long drive with possible delays due to morning traffic so he left the house around 6am.

Then the rest of us began our morning routine of breakfast and getting dressed for the day.  We hurried out the door by 7:45am in order to head north up the road.  We were meeting a friend of ours who was in the same art classes with Henry.  Henry had his second week of art this week and was happy to have this time in nature with other art lovers.  The instructor has even agreed to take on more students from our homeschool group for additional weeks.  I am so excited that this is working out for Henry and helps our other homeschoolers as well.

After dropping Henry off, we headed back south to our local VA clinic to serve sandwiches to the veterans. This is one of our regular community service projects with our 4H group.  Normally, we have too many 4Hers helping us but this time it worked out that NO ONE could come help!  YIKES!  I was a little worried about going alone but it all worked out.  A short blog post about this can be found on my 4H blog.

This task was completed just in time to get a phone call from Henry saying that the art class was cancelled due to rain (outside class).  I gathered up children and supplies and headed for the door.  Just about he time we were on the road, he called again to say the class found an indoor location!  UGH!!!  That's OK...we continued on to the class location so we could sit and enjoy the nature center ourselves.

Then headed home for a quiet afternoon.  We heard from Michael as he was coming home to tell us that only one of the spots on his face were of concern.  Thankfully, the spot was only a precancerous inflammation.  The doctor was able to spray a little liquid nitrogen on the area and it should be better.  Of course, he will need to watch the location to make sure it does not return.

Then Michael stopped at Lowes to purchase new kitchen lights.  The room was getting pretty dark with only one flickering fluorescent light instead of the normal three.  The ballister had gone out in the two lights so we had to replace them all to have the same style.  I knew it was getting bad but we were all amazed to see how bright it was once he changed them all out for the new ones.  I am so glad he has the know how to change the lights out without hiring an electrician.
   
So, the day went fairly well.  We had been given a full course meal from our friends so an easy dinner with dessert.  I can not thank them enough for such a great end to an exhausting day.

I know it does not seem like much of a day compared to our normal activities but we were all quick to bed  last night.


AND...we all slept in this morning...LOL!  When Brendan walked in to our bedroom at 8:30am, Michael told him that it was not time to wake up.  Brendan looked out the window and said the lights were on outside.  So, Micheal told him we were having a lazy day and he needed to let us sleep longer.  Brendan said, "Fine!  I am just going to leave you alone!"  LOL...sounded like a good plan to us!

We did finally get out of bed and enjoyed out lazy day.  One way we enjoyed the morning was watching Edward read books to Zaira and Brendan.  Don't let Edward fool you...he really is a push over...he came up to me and said, "Mom, I think Zaira wants to hear a story and she would be able to do that best in my lap."  So sweet!

Michael went into town long enough to purchase Zaira's next pampering device...well maybe it will pamper us also...a RECLINER!!!!  We thought it would be ready for tonight's late night feeding but we will have to pick it up on Monday.