Sleepless Nights

The week after Daylight Savings has been a fun one in K3.  Two kids cried every morning and through their tears I made out, I'm tired.  I know.  Me, too.  Another friend celebrated a birthday, which brightened our Thursday.  When we celebrate in K3, we do mini-cupcakes.  That's for the sanity of all in the room.  She brought in beautiful full-size princess cupcakes with two inches of icing on top.  The kids were very excited to try them.  They were eaten with glee and we could not get out to the playground fast enough to run off that sugar.  

Our big three are in the midst of a pickleball tournament in gym class.  To encourage his partner, Josiah drew him a picture. 

Daylight Savings was not the only reason we missed out on some sleep this week.  Josiah's science teacher told us about the lunar eclipse.  At 2:15 a.m. Friday morning, Todd, Josiah, and I were up to watch the moon.  The full coverage was said to be from 2:30 - 3:30 a.m.  I was expecting a bright red color.  It was somewhat dull, so we could never tell if it was fully covered.  However, when I took Benson out at 4:30 a.m. and saw a fully white, bright moon, it was quite the contrast.  My pictures make it look much brighter than it did in real life.

We went to school and work a bit tired, but Friday was Pi Day and the Upper School celebrated with all sorts of pies.  We contributed a cherry, but the kids informed me that the Oreo and chocolate pies were the most popular.  Next year.  We got a pizza pie for dinner to continue the celebration.  

This is the boys' math teacher

Friday was a good day because report cards came out and the kids impressed us again with their effort.  We celebrated this weekend at the Mexican restaurant near our place.  We must have always eaten Tex-Mex in Texas because we've been to two Mexican restaurants here and they both brought out a bean dip with their chips.  We never had bean dip in Texas.  It's good.  Henry and Caroline both got chicken and steak fajitas.  Josiah makes his own meal of a beef burrito in queso.  

Saturday night, we hunkered down and all 'slept' on couches.  Henry took the air mattress.  There was bad weather expected with wind gusts and potential for tornadoes.  With the big trees in the yard, and after having one fall last year, we didn't want to take any chances.  And sleep we did not.  At 2:30 a.m., I gave up on trying to get comfortable and went back upstairs to my own bed.  Josiah got in my face at 4 a.m. and asked why I was putting myself in harm's way.  There was a big thunderstorm at 3:00 a.m., but it was not nearly as bad as we were expecting.  So, Sunday has been a tired sort of day.  Caroline somehow found the energy to vacuum out our cars this evening.  A new car vacuum was my birthday gift (I left mine in Texas) and having a vacuum Cleaner is the gift that just keeps on giving.  

This guy is trying to catch up on his sleep.  When we're up, he's up, so he's had a rough few nights this week as well.