Friday Update #16 (4/24/15)

There are some months that we just can’t ever catch our breaths, and April has been one of those months. Nothing particularly dreadful has happened, it’s just been busy busy busy. The Fine Arts Night preparations are consuming.

The weekend was mostly spent at home I let Ezra use a real knife to help me cut up rhubarb and he was so very careful and so very proud.

He also found bluebells and picked them for me.

When we were at my parents, Ezra disappeared to listen to more Hobbit stories from Uncle David. He's getting really excited about the story.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday I had a lot of lessons. Well, my usual amount, but a bit more spread out, so it ended up taking up a lot more time than it does most weeks. Until we find the time to decide what to do about the van (necessary repairs? Sell it and buy a new vehicle?) we’re sharing the car, so we’ve had to be a bit creative about our schedules. It’s actually worked out really really well, considering how busy this last half of the month is. And we’ve actually seen each other this week, because we’ve been driving each other places. That sounds a bit Pollyanna (ridiculously optimistic) but it’s been really nice. If we had our own vehicles this week we probably wouldn’t have really seen each other. And Seth definitely wouldn’t have seen the boys. So this way we’ve been able to chat and Seth has told the boys lots of Superhero stories.

Isaac bumped his head this week and asked for an ice pack. He didn't hold the ice pack on his head in the correct location, nor would he let me, but it was still cute.

My allergies were really bothering me Wednesday, but I muddled through lessons. I hadn’t thought to take my allergy medicine because I usually don’t, but my body really didn’t take well to whatever plant started blooming. When I got home and looked up the pollen index it was a “very high alert”. Thursday, however, I couldn’t even get off the couch! My sinuses were so congested and my eyes so irritated that I would have been miserable enough, but I also had one of the most relentless headaches I’ve ever had. Thankfully we didn’t have anything scheduled that day (except for trying to make a dent in the laundry and dishes that had accumulated through the first part of the week – ha!) and the boys were so very sensitive and thoughtful. They watched a lot of TV and played Duplos and did puzzles and PlayDoh and were especially kind to each other. Ezra even got snacks and juice for them! When Seth got home at like 9pm, he had to do quite a lot of cleaning to just even pick up all of used tissues and wrapped up dirty diapers piled up next to me on the couch. And then he put Isaac to sleep and took Ezra to the grocery store (because I also hadn’t had time to go shopping all week). If that weren’t enough, they came home with food for me and a dozen roses! Ezra said that the roses were “the best headache medicine” and apparently convinced Seth of their necessity. He is so thoughtful and particularly protective of me. It was a very sweet ending to an otherwise hard day.

Once it started raining Thursday evening my allergies drastically cleared up, so today I was finally able to get up and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned! It felt amazing to be up and about, but even more amazing to get so much cleaning done after a full week of total neglect.

This coming week doesn’t look much easier, but after Thursday we’re all going to take a big sigh of relief and then take a day off and do nothing. And then, the week after that Ezra turns FOUR YEARS OLD!!