Monday – AGAIN with the MONDAY THING????

It comes every week, doesn’t it?

Today I woke up encouraged that Nolan didn’t have a fever, had NO VOICE but wasn't complaining of any pain. I took that as a double blessing….feeling better and silent.

Then Zander threw up. If he is truly sick he is the most energetic sick person I’ve ever seen. He has run non-stop all day. I finally let him outside this afternoon. He has no fever, hasn’t gotten ill again, and isn’t complaining of any aches or pains. Thanks for the prayers, ya’ all.

We were invited to the park this afternoon but I wanted to keep the boys home…I thought maybe Josiah could take Arielle and Jared over to visit with their friends. Josiah mentioned that he had a headache and felt nauseated – as do I; we all stayed home.

We are studying the Crimean War and Florence Nightingale this week. The older boys are reading Tom Sawyer and Uncle Tom’s Cabin. When I make it to the library Jared will be reading The Slave Dancer. The younger ones asked me to “please, please, PLEASE mother dearest” (yes – girls THEY DID! {G}) read them the next Little House book. We are reading On the Banks of Plum Creek. (So it hasn't got a thing to do with the Crimean War (this week) or the Civil War (next three weeks) but it fit into the Western Expansion and we sort of got stuck. We'll stay stuck there until our OR trail trip, I think, and progress ahead as well. I had found some great picture book type biographies of Laura Ingalls Wilder at the library to read to them too. Of course, we’re now thinking when we drive the OR trail we’ll need to stop off and briefly trace the Ingalls migration, as well as the Pony Express route, and maybe the Santa Fe Trail….maybe we could drive down through the north – go visit the CA Gold Rush camps and drive back through the southern trail…we’ll see.

Mike came home, ate dinner, ironed a fresh uniform and went back to work. The ORI is coming, the ORI is coming…..

I plan to finish up this week’s Bible study, read another chapter in my “serious” book and then several more chapters in the next Penn Dutch Inn book. Tomorrow is bound to be a more energetic day around here….except, dare I admit, I was hoping that being sick might slow Zander down a day or two.