Rough Week

Whew, I'm glad it's Friday! The boys have just all been on edge this week. Literally, it's something in the air! Caleb's asthma is always really bad in September, so I've been having to give him his albuterol "puffer". When he takes this, he is just so emotionally fragile, and he also doesn't sleep as late as he normally does. Nathan also has seasonal allergies, although nothing like Caleb's. Luke has no excuse, I guess, but he has really been fragile too--maybe it's just contagious! There's been a lot of bickering that doesn't usually happen, and Luke actually burst into tears during school on Wednesday when I told him that he was going to have to do a better job writing his spelling words out. To be honest, they looked like those "word verification" things--the letters were all jumbled on top of each other. VERY sloppy, and not like he usually writes, but he cried about it for the rest of the morning. Good grief! And today he did poorly on his spelling test, which is also very unlike him, and which also upset him greatly. Sigh. I felt like I was dealing with an emotional, pregnant woman! LOL! So I really don't know why this week was so hard for him, except maybe that everyone else was just so grumpy that he felt he needed to do something to be included! I'm just glad the week is over, and next week will be a fresh start. I'm thinking we might even do a field trip next week, just for a nice change. I read about the Potomac Overlook Regional Park in the paper a little while ago, and it looks like a very interesting place. It looks like it has a nice nature center with some rescued birds of prey, lots of taxidermy exhibits, and even a glass-sided bee hive so you can see what goes on inside a hive. Since the weather has been so beautiful, we should definitely take advantage of it!

As an update to our prenatal saga, Bob just called. We went out to lunch today with him and another co-worker to celebrate their passing of the fitness run (praise the Lord again!). Of course, we went to an all-you-can-eat pizza place, so maybe that was a wash, LOL! But while he was gone, Tricare (the office that determines the waivers) called and left a message. The message didn't actually say anything, just to call back, so he did. Well, the lady who called had just left, and no one else was willing to find the paper saying whether or not the waiver was denied. So we don't know anything more now, but hopefully we should know something on Monday. I should just be thankful the lady didn't leave a nasty rejection message on Bob's machine!

And this last note is for Dy--I just saw your comment about the Trailblazer books. It's probably too late for you now, but I wanted to tell you that Nathan really loves them. They are exciting and interesting, and he is certainly learning about great Christians who don't really get a lot of press nowadays! His favorite was something about a Drummer Boy--I can't remember the exact title--but the Christian character was Florence Nightengale. The reason he liked it so much though was because it takes place during the Crimean War and so involves a lot of battle scenes. He's also read about John Bunyan, the Judsons, John Wesley, and Samuel Morris. If I ever found any of these books used, I would snatch them up!