For the second time this semester,
Mike went back out to a very warm California and left Hallie with the kids. To
complicate matters, everyone, it seems, is battling a cold Hallie brought with
her from her last trip. This cold has been with Hallie nearly two weeks, and
she is nervous what she and the kids will pick up when they go to California at
the end of the month.
This was in most other respect just another one of those routine weeks at home in contrast with so much tragedy and turmoil outside our walls. The kids had gymnastics, and the parents had work and home responsibilities.
Eliza participated in Westside Elementary's Fun Run fundraiser activities on Monday while Landon flew like a bird at gymnastics.
Mike has found that the good folks at the university will get him to come to their meetings if they provide him lunch. Doing so has both filled his tummy and given him valuable teaching, research, and grant-writing insights.
Meanwhile, in Hallie’s world, she battled a cold and cough and extended period of poor sleep. Landon joined her in her suffering from Wednesday through Friday: No school or gymnastics for Landon during those periods. You know he must be pretty sick if he was willing to give up gymnastics.
Christmas came early to our household, or at least to Mike, when Hallie found a deal on a desk built into a stationary bike for his home office. Maybe Mike’s bowl full of jelly will be a bit smaller by the time St. Nick shows up.
On Wednesday night, we got "booed" by a neighbor who left ghost balloons and bottled water with ghoulish fruit-flavored potion to mix in. Later in the week, the kids tried to return the favor with their own ding-dong-ditch-styled "boo," but they got caught!
Mike left for California late Thursday, spending time working from Grandma and Grandpa O.’s on Friday before doing a little tutoring in the evening and helping EdD students through their dissertation data analysis on Saturday before visiting with Grandma and Papa M. before tutoring some more. We ended the weekend with church on Sunday.
Hallie held things together at home with a little help from ice cream. She and Landon soothed their sore throats at SOS.
They also built blanket forts to make watching TV even more fun. This meant stealing Fergus's favorite blanket. He managed to get it back eventually.
Hallie is a newly called Primary teacher. This year she is teaching six boys. Today she had four, and they all have or will have turned 10 by the end of the year. This happens to be the same age group as Landon, but we have so many kids in our Primary that Landon is in another class with another six or eight kids. Hallie has a boy on the autism spectrum in her class, and he seemed to warm up to her quickly. During Singing and Sharing Time, our young friend took to laying his head on Hallie’s lap.
This was in most other respect just another one of those routine weeks at home in contrast with so much tragedy and turmoil outside our walls. The kids had gymnastics, and the parents had work and home responsibilities.
Eliza participated in Westside Elementary's Fun Run fundraiser activities on Monday while Landon flew like a bird at gymnastics.
Mike has found that the good folks at the university will get him to come to their meetings if they provide him lunch. Doing so has both filled his tummy and given him valuable teaching, research, and grant-writing insights.
Meanwhile, in Hallie’s world, she battled a cold and cough and extended period of poor sleep. Landon joined her in her suffering from Wednesday through Friday: No school or gymnastics for Landon during those periods. You know he must be pretty sick if he was willing to give up gymnastics.
Christmas came early to our household, or at least to Mike, when Hallie found a deal on a desk built into a stationary bike for his home office. Maybe Mike’s bowl full of jelly will be a bit smaller by the time St. Nick shows up.
On Wednesday night, we got "booed" by a neighbor who left ghost balloons and bottled water with ghoulish fruit-flavored potion to mix in. Later in the week, the kids tried to return the favor with their own ding-dong-ditch-styled "boo," but they got caught!
Mike left for California late Thursday, spending time working from Grandma and Grandpa O.’s on Friday before doing a little tutoring in the evening and helping EdD students through their dissertation data analysis on Saturday before visiting with Grandma and Papa M. before tutoring some more. We ended the weekend with church on Sunday.
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| Donuts on the way home from the airport = yummy! |
Hallie held things together at home with a little help from ice cream. She and Landon soothed their sore throats at SOS.
They also built blanket forts to make watching TV even more fun. This meant stealing Fergus's favorite blanket. He managed to get it back eventually.
Hallie is a newly called Primary teacher. This year she is teaching six boys. Today she had four, and they all have or will have turned 10 by the end of the year. This happens to be the same age group as Landon, but we have so many kids in our Primary that Landon is in another class with another six or eight kids. Hallie has a boy on the autism spectrum in her class, and he seemed to warm up to her quickly. During Singing and Sharing Time, our young friend took to laying his head on Hallie’s lap.
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