Another busy week. Monday was supposed to be the day before school ... who knew. I don't remember much. On Sunday or Monday, Katsu gave all the boys and I blessings before starting the new school year. We had burgers and chips for Labor Day. And we got the yard ready for some big winds that were coming.
Monday night, the winds blew and blew and blew. The rattling windows woke us up throughout the night. Tuesday morning, we woke up and watched branches fall down, trash cans blow down the road. The temperature had dropped to feeling like freezing (although really in the 40s). Katsu prepared a delicious breakfast for the boys - two different kinds of omelets, grilled cheese sandwiches, everyone got dressed and ready. And then the power went off.
Which is somewhat of a difficulty when the first day of school is all virtual. And it was supposed to start in less than an hour. After some texts, the school day was finally cancelled right before it was supposed to begin. So, we spent the day watching the storm and the wind. We did a read aloud and almost read the whole book of "A Fourth Grade Nothing". Katsu went into work to deal with his freezers. We put refrigerator food into a cooler with dry ice to try to save it somewhat. Katsu went back into work. We remembered that we have an ejector pump that runs on electricity, so we might have sewage problems if we kept using the basement plumbing. The house got deliciously cool - 63 degrees. We had an early night to bed with candles and blankets.
Wednesday, still no power. And school was cancelled again. More of the same. Jack did the slowest roll over from his back to his tummy. Katsu went to work and came home. I went to work and did office hours - trying to furiously charge phones, get work done, talk to students, and get home to feed the baby. Jack took a bottle, though did not love it, while I was gone. And then the power came back on. For us, but not for everyone.
Seth went off with friends. Biking around the downed trees, he got stung by two bees. One on his hand and one on his ear. They swelled and swelled. His hand just about doubled in size.
The aftermath of the storm continued. Huge trees are down all over the city. Thankfully no huge ones in our yard, but in our neighborhood. A huge one in front of the elementary school.
Thursday morning, we got everyone ready and even a couple onto Zoom to start school, when they announced that school was again cancelled. Noah had already drawn a picture of how scared he was to start first grade and then had a short Zoom meeting.
Another day at home. Seth had soccer practice. Katsu had work. We picked up Seth's two new pairs of glasses, which he said he hated and didn't want to wear (much to the chagrin of the optical shop woman). I made him try them on at home and he realized how much better he can see, and now hasn't stopped wearing one of the new pairs. I picked up our farmer's box for the first time and we had tons of fruit. We got the boys headphones at Target and picked up a jumperoo for Jack from our Buy Nothing group. Andrew was thrilled that football restarted.
I spent the rest of the week playing catch up with work. Lots of stress trying to figure out how we are going to get it all worked out. It's too much money to hire someone to take care of all 5 boys plus digital learning, so we are pretty much stuck with having to do way more work than there are hours in the day.
Katsu and I started a new series on Netflix called Away which we are enjoying.
Seth had a soccer game on Saturday and Katsu managed to find new shoes for the older boys. Andrew now wears a size 12! Seth ended up having to get women's shoes, because they had no shoes in his size. We did get him some new snow boots off the Buy Nothing site. We picked up our library holds that we'd been planning to get on Tuesday, but the library was closed for hold pickup all week (I don't think they had electricity). We had about 30 holds. Logan has already read all but the last of the books I got him - all Geronimo Stilton. I put the next 10 on hold, at least the ones the library had.
Sunday, we went to the Red Butte and hiked up to the old quarry house. On the way down, Andrew got a bee stuck in his shoe and it stung him. It took quite a bit of effort to get the bee out of the shoe. Seth was experienced and helped Andrew get the stinger out. Andrew spent half the day in a Benadryl induced nap.
And so another week goes ...
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