2 Weeks, Briefly (2/10/20 and 2/17/20)
We are recovering.
It felt like influenza, but it was shorter-lived.
Whatever it was, it was dreadful, and I'm glad to see the back of it . . . even if we are left with treating asthma flare-ups and boggling levels of sinus drainage.
I was knocked out flat the longest (thank goodness for Sir Walter Scott's PTO!), but Baymax has been by far the most ill--his fever sat at 105+ for over 18 hours despite every medication, every effort we made to cool him down. At the end of that worst day, he finally fell asleep sandwiched between ice packs. I am so grateful for the priesthood blessing that precipitated the decline of that fever!
He is, however, still quite ill.
Other than Morning Meeting, which we managed to have 4 times during our sick week, and one day of Academy reading, we didn't have any of our regular school. We did watch a lot of National Geographic documentaries/series and hours of a gardening show on Netflix.
Thus far, the teens have managed to avoid this illness. I asked them to do their independent school with a good will as long as they were healthy . . . but they took advantage of the lack of supervision. :(
On Thursday night, Sir Walter Scott was driving Belle and Nature Angel to the church for activities when they were the victims of a hit-and-run accident.
They are all okay.
Our van is not.
The two cars we have working do not have enough seats between them to get our family to the places we need to go.
We are exploring our options.
We'll be using rather a lot of math and critical thinking skills in the next weeks as we figure out how to get legally from point A to point B.
The teens headed to Book Club on Friday afternoon. It was a student-run event as neither I nor the hosting mom was able to attend. I have yet to see the teens this morning, so I don't know how it went. But this crew is never short on opinions, so I trust it was fine.
Jumping back in time to the first of these two weeks is hard as the illness week knocked everything out of my memory.
We also had a dance performance that went well. We got two particular compliments from the residents:
1. "It's so lovely to see young people modestly dressed and bright-eyed."
2. "When the children sang We Are the World, I found I was crying. It was very sweet."
Dance was cancelled the week we were sick, and we have another show next week!
We're trying to balance meeting the needs of kids with more energy with the needs of those who still need to recover . . . and I need to make the decision about whether or not Ladybug needs to go to urgent care for a breathing treatment or not.
Nature Angel made and served breakfast for 7 members of the family this morning, and in a few minutes she and I are going to go over the scale drawings she drew of our garden beds and back deck, so we can do a little seed catalogue browsing to see what we can plan for a garden this spring.
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| Little Princess was the last to succumb, so she still feels weak, and Baymax is still on constant bedrest. The rest of the kids are energetic enough to play games before I make them take naps. |
It felt like influenza, but it was shorter-lived.
Whatever it was, it was dreadful, and I'm glad to see the back of it . . . even if we are left with treating asthma flare-ups and boggling levels of sinus drainage.
I was knocked out flat the longest (thank goodness for Sir Walter Scott's PTO!), but Baymax has been by far the most ill--his fever sat at 105+ for over 18 hours despite every medication, every effort we made to cool him down. At the end of that worst day, he finally fell asleep sandwiched between ice packs. I am so grateful for the priesthood blessing that precipitated the decline of that fever!
He is, however, still quite ill.
Other than Morning Meeting, which we managed to have 4 times during our sick week, and one day of Academy reading, we didn't have any of our regular school. We did watch a lot of National Geographic documentaries/series and hours of a gardening show on Netflix.
Thus far, the teens have managed to avoid this illness. I asked them to do their independent school with a good will as long as they were healthy . . . but they took advantage of the lack of supervision. :(
On Thursday night, Sir Walter Scott was driving Belle and Nature Angel to the church for activities when they were the victims of a hit-and-run accident.
They are all okay.
Our van is not.
The two cars we have working do not have enough seats between them to get our family to the places we need to go.
We are exploring our options.
We'll be using rather a lot of math and critical thinking skills in the next weeks as we figure out how to get legally from point A to point B.
The teens headed to Book Club on Friday afternoon. It was a student-run event as neither I nor the hosting mom was able to attend. I have yet to see the teens this morning, so I don't know how it went. But this crew is never short on opinions, so I trust it was fine.
Jumping back in time to the first of these two weeks is hard as the illness week knocked everything out of my memory.
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| Mister Man finished the last of his Literature Studies for Grade 2. He's now immersing himself in his science study. |
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| He also finished book 3 of 5 books in Grade 2 Arithmetic. |
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| These two are completely finished with The Good and the Beautiful High School Language Arts 2. Before the epidemic struck, we picked our Omnibus I studies back up again, and we're about 2/3 the way through The Odyssey. |
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| Brother is super-duper proud of finishing Grade 1 Arithmetic. He's happily powering through Book 1 of Grade 2 Arithmetic now. |
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| We had our traditional Valentine's Day celebration that took a full week to prepare because we hand make Valentines for each family member. That's a whole lot of Valentine crafting!!! |
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| Clockwise from top left: Pixie and Brother being silly with treasure hung clues; Close up of one of Brother's pop-up cards; Little Princess reading a clue aloud to the other kids; Baymax is ready to open the drier door to find the treat! |
We also had a dance performance that went well. We got two particular compliments from the residents:
1. "It's so lovely to see young people modestly dressed and bright-eyed."
2. "When the children sang We Are the World, I found I was crying. It was very sweet."
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| Singing We Are the World--our closing number |
We're trying to balance meeting the needs of kids with more energy with the needs of those who still need to recover . . . and I need to make the decision about whether or not Ladybug needs to go to urgent care for a breathing treatment or not.
Nature Angel made and served breakfast for 7 members of the family this morning, and in a few minutes she and I are going to go over the scale drawings she drew of our garden beds and back deck, so we can do a little seed catalogue browsing to see what we can plan for a garden this spring.
I am so sorry for the illness and the hit and run. How horrible. I hope you all can work your way through the van issue. I know that is so hard. I am glad you all are okay and hope that the illness leaves you soon.
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What a week! Hold tight--it's just a wild ride!
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