Change of plans and stormy weather

Friday didn't go as we planned. I wasn't terribly surprised. The truck with the candy and nuts that was supposed to be at Archery Mom's house by 10am still hadn't arrived by noon. (The mom who is our Fall Product Chair also taught archery at day camp.) So helping her wasn't working out and she was stuck making her kids do it. (Actually she said her high school age daughter and two of her friends were huge helps, so that's good.)

But our day was thrown off. I did what any self-respecting mom would do and offered to take Violet out for ice cream. I was actually going to take her out to lunch since Archery Mom lives right by Arby's. But we got frozen custard at Culver's instead.

We did get a little school work done. I had Violet try Brainish for the first time and she liked it. It is a math worksheet site. We also did more history. We tried one of the Sequential Spelling samples and it looks promising. And we had a huge fight over Easy Grammar. How can you fight over Easy Grammar? I don't know, we were both having an off day.

Saturday we got hit by the storm. Mr. Incredible took Violet to her Code Cracking class at a nearby science lab (not so nearby, it is about an hour away). During the class it started snowing, then the temperatures increased and by the time they left the freezing rain and sleet was starting up. It took them almost 2 hours to get home and they didn't get to stop for lunch like they'd planned. Two days, two canceled lunches.

Turns out her class didn't go smoothly either. First she couldn't sleep the night before because she was so anxious about going. Then our right-brained, highly sensitive perfectionist had a melt down when she couldn't get one of her projects just right. They had to remove her from the class and take her into another room because she was crying so hard she was heaving. Mr. Incredible and the instructor talked to her about how everyone has to do things more than once to get it right sometimes. The instructor said something about Edison needing 300 tries to make the light bulb. (This may not be entirely accurate, Mr. Incredible said the instructor's story changed a couple of times). She is signed up for another class next Saturday, and we'll try that one, but after that we're going to think long and hard before signing up for the next.

Sigh. They got back home just as the weather turned really, really bad. But we were in for the night and just watched the ice accumulate.

This morning was warmer so things were melting and the roads were passable again. In the afternoon I went to Archery Mom's house to pick up Violet's orders. The Double Dipped Chocolate Covered Peanuts are as good as I remembered from last year. Violet got to sort her own orders out and made thank you cards for her customers. She got her incentives for selling: a patch, a stuffed dolphin, a stuffed seal, a t-shirt, a light up pen and a sparkle clock. She had a lot of sales. And we had my favorite meal for dinner: Super Nachos.

And once again, tomorrow starts a new week and we start all over again. I told Violet we'd be hitting the books again tomorrow and she said she was looking forward to trying the math website again. I had been thinking we'd do Miquon, but I'll take any math practice I can get from her.

Tuesday Pump It Up has homeschool day again, so we'll go and hope other kids come this time. And Thursday we're back to the theater for our school day performance of The Nutcracker. Have a good week everyone!