It’s been a busy one already, and it’s only Wednesday.\u00a0 Monday morning we had no appointment scheduled other than taking the Jezek kids back to their house on the north side and returning with our Geneva.\u00a0 I was getting ready to prepare to begin to tell people to start thinking about maybe putting their shoes on (these things must never be approached precipitously, you understand) when I got a phone call from my dear Lisa asking if I could pick her up at the hospital so she wouldn’t have to walk home. Well, I mean, OBVIOUSLY I was on the way in two minutes.\u00a0 My God-daughter needs your prayers – she’s plagued by a stress related ailment that is pretty severe.\u00a0 Anyway, after picking her up and stopping by CVS to drop off her prescriptions I got her to her house, then back to my house, then loaded up all the kids and headed north.\u00a0 I think we ended up getting back home before noon, but that part is a blur.<\/p>\n
Afternoon was schooling, and I didn’t quite get supper on the table in time – Paul had to leave for his Monday night Gonzales pick-ups right before we sat down. \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Must. Plan. Better.\u00a0 Jake and Laurent left for ROC just before 6pm and Jeff (who spent the evening here) and I were intrigued to hear about their evening when they returned.\u00a0 It was a “teaching Mass” for the middle schoolers, and when they got home around 9, Jacob was positively effervescing.\u00a0 Father Lankeit is an excellent teacher – I wish I could have attended.\u00a0 In addition to a question and answer time about the parts of the mass, the children were enriched by learning about the differences between ad orientem<\/em><\/strong> and versus populum<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It is a delight to my soul when I see my children passionately grabbing hold of their faith and eagerly participating in their catechesis.<\/p>\n ~*~*~*~*~*~*~<\/p>\n Tuesday was another Car-School day as we were off to therapy with mom.\u00a0 I printed out several math worksheets for Jacob, but a) he got away without his glasses, which never helps, and b) for some reason the printer decided to print everything half size, so it was doubly hard to read the numbers.\u00a0 He didn’t get a lot done in the two hours we were there.\u00a0 Geneva did manage to get some science work done, despite her brother’s antics.<\/p>\n On the way home I stopped by and picked up Lisa so she could come over and spend a few hours chillaxing.\u00a0 I made her a pot of non-spicy rice pilau that she was able to nibble on throughout the day.\u00a0 Her bland diet is going to be a drag for her, but I can usually find ways to make something like rice a little more interesting without veering into the gastronomic danger zone.<\/p>\n