Fridays are always test days at our little schoolhouse.  Personally, I tell the boys get them done quick and enjoy the rest of the day!  In fact, I try to have fun activities planned for Friday afternoons.  But, my boys have not fully grasped this idea.  We spent much of the morning wrestling this big bear of a school day until I had almost given up!

I had hoped we would go to the library in the afternoon.  I wanted to return the much overdue books (we had not to the library since before Zaira's birth) we had  at home.  Also, my goal to start Brendan's pre-school program was dependent on finding FARM books!

Now I have to admit we had a little bit of a distraction this morning.  Seeing that hurricane hit so close to our path made me convince Michael to find a company to fix our generator.  I really did not want our generator busted if the power went out again.  We did not know exactly what was wrong with it but knew the battery did not look good.  So, we had a man come check out the damage (praying it would not be completely ruined.  He arrived right as we were really getting into the school day.  And, knowing our boys, they could not concentrate on school with a man and tools at work.

Come to find out the battery in our generator required water to be added to it regularly (Why don't people tell you these things when you buy a house!?!).  When we did not do this, the battery exploded inside the generator.  It took almost an hour just to clean out all the pieces of battery out of the generator.  Then the residue from the acid had to be cleaned out.  Once the clean up was done, a new battery was installed and the generator started up.  It did sound rough so we chose to have tune up done as well.  An expensive maintenance call but worth every penny should we need the generator.

Once the man was on his way, the boys' progress improved exponentially.  We could then plan for that library trip.  We arrived just in time to enjoy the lull in patrons.  We had the librarians almost completely to ourselves.  The children's librarian (Chantel) helped me find the farm books.  The juvenile librarian (Nelda) helped Sean find his book report book (The Yearling).  They all gushed over Zaira!  They were also having a bake sale to aid a local girl's cancer treatment.  We bought the last of their treats.  A great midnight snack for Michael and I.

We made a quick stop at the store for last minute items for tomorrow's celebration.  Then home again, home again...just in time for the pour down rain!  Right after the rain, the sky took on a weird yellow hue.  By the time we got some photos and came back inside the sky had turned black!  Very odd!

I cannot end this post without telling a little story about Brendan.  He helped me make biscuits for dinner tonight.  When it came time to cut the biscuits, he ran over to the cookie cutter drawer and pulled out a butterfly cookie cutter!  He told me he wanted to make butterfly biscuits for Zaira!  Is that not too sweet?!