School started this week, so naturally something had to go wrong with the car. On Monday, I was enjoying time at the park with friends and all seven kids came along, a rare event indeed. When we went to leave, the car wouldn't start. It wouldn't even make a noise. Some nice people there, who ended up to be members of the church in Sachse ward, helped me out. They took Travis and Eliza to Cooper Junior High to pick up their chromebooks. They got their family patriarch who knows about cars to come and take a look. And they took the kids home with Caleb while I waited in the 98+ degree heat for AAA to come and test my battery. Westley's friend Dekan drove him to In-N-Out to get Corey's car so that he could help out with any driving later on. I waited. Finally AAA came and tested the battery. Westley brought me lunch from Braum's. And the AAA guy said that it wasn't the battery but the key fob. But he was able to get the car started, so I drove it home thinking I'd take it in the next morning. But, alas, the car would not start again. Thankfully, I had left in on the driveway so it was easier to access. I called a key fob guy who came out to the house and he told me it wasn't the key fob, but the battery. So I called AAA and set up an appointment for him to come get the car from the dreveway and take it to our mechanic a few blocks away. The soonest he could come was the next morning. So that's what happened and guess what...it did turn out to be the battery, which I had only replaced last August. They did have to reset the key fobs too though.
School started on Thursday. Westley is a senior, Caleb a sophomore,
Travis 8th grade, Eliza 7th grade, Jonah 4th and Annmarie 2nd. We were
fortunate that school actually started here in Wylie ISD. A lot of
schools across the country aren't starting in person but online,
virtually, sort of like we did it in the spring. But our district
offered parents a choice--to send students to campus or keep them home
and do online. Our family chose campus. We aren't worried about
covid19 and the district has all these measures in place for "safety".
So 5th grade and up are required to wear masks and they have
(supposedly) smaller class sizes and plans in place for quarantining if
there are positive cases of covid19. I'm so tired of all the covid
stuff. But I won't get into that in this book. We are just very glad
to be in one of the few districts across the country, it seems, to get
to start school on campus and on the same start day that was planned
from last year. So hopefully they have a decent school year and no long
closures or quarantines! And hopefully covid fade into obscurity.
Nathan is home with me now. We are doing preschool this year but only with a few students and those students aren't even paying me! We are doing exchanges instead. Eliza will have violin lessons and I'll do preschool for her violin teacher's son and Nathan will get to be babysat several times a week in exchange for teaching this other woman's daughter. It will all be fine. I'm also cutting way back on piano lessons and only retaining five of my students. It's going to be tight financially, but I'm looking forward to being able to devote more time to being a mom!
And Westley's letter jacket finally came! He earned it last year and was able to put the order in and when he got home from school on the first day, he had it! I'm so proud of him for earning it and just love how it turned out!
