‘Tis the season to look back on the past year (and take a few minutes to catch up on posting here since it’s been sooo long!) We’ve struggled through the usual sickness going around off and on this fall. With seven of us in the house, it’s pretty difficult to find a time when at least one of us isn’t under the weather at least a little bit.
Most recently Jo and Rob had quite the experience recently. On the way to take Robert to youth group, they hit a slick spot in the road and after a few twists and turns ended up in the ditch. The van didn’t have much noticable body damage and was able to be driven home, but has a coolant leak of some sort so can’t be driven to the shop for service. With the confusion of the holidays, we are still trying to figure out how this is all going to play out. We do have rental coverage, but finding rental vehicles that are available to hold 7 people is a job in and of itself. Luckily we didn’t have a lot of vacation plans here over break, but are still working on arrangements to get our travels arranged.
The kids are really enjoying school this year. Thomas and Jaclyn are in the same class again as their grade level has lost enough students that they are a single section grade. Avon is actively looking at options with neighboring districts, but more than likely any sort of reorganization is a few years away. Robert is up in Middle School now and is really enjoying the change of pace. As he put it last night, there is a lot more freedom.
Jo is still doing a fabulous job as church secretary (and organizing many other things around church), while balancing all the other activities of the kids and taking such good care of all of us (which is beyond a full time job in and of itself). She is also charged with trying to help me keep my sanity as I still keep adjusting to my position as a 7-12 principal. That poor woman deserves any awards and accolades given. Along with the constant trips to the doctor to keep everyone healthy, Ali has also started physical therapy to try and correct some muscle imbalance that they believe may have been there since the birth process. This muscle imbalance is causing some of the plates in her head to be slightly misplaced, and her spine is somewhat out of shape; however, she has made incredible progress through exercises over the past few weeks.
Outside of that, this time of year brings us the usual hustle and bustle of the holiday season like many of you. We look forward to getting any updates on how you and your family are doing. We are sorry if we don’t take enough time to keep in touch regularly, but we like many others sometimes get sidetracked in the day to day dealings of life.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to you and yours!