Change of plans.

Co-schooling today was pre-empted by a vomiting baby, in this case my vomiting 15-month-old.  All the worse because it was supposed to be the first co-schooling day after Easter break.  It was going to be the first "normal" day after Easter break.  It was going to set the tone for all of the spring trimester.  

Alas, it was not to be.

I really thought he was done with it.  He'd had various symptoms for well over a week -- it might even have been two weeks -- starting with a runny nose and fever, followed by more than a week of low appetite and frequent, watery stools.  Then yesterday, he went more than 24 hours without symptoms!  Hurray!   So I made plans.  And all was well until 5:50 this morning when he threw up a bellyful of breastmilk next to my head.

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As I wrote on FB this morning:

• Life would be easier for me if I didn't have to pass through the five stages of grief every time my plans had to change.

   

   
•  Stage one: that is not vomit. this is just a little spit-up.

   

   
•   Stage two: WHY DID YOU HAVE TO THROW UP TODAY YOU DID THAT ON PURPOSE

   
•  Stage three: If only you don't throw up any more, then maybe everything will actually turn out all right and I won't have to canc ARRRRGH STOP THAT! ON THE TOWEL! THE TOWEL!

   
• Stage four: My beautiful lunch was already made and in the crockpot. The kids will get behind in schoolwork. I'll be lonely ALL DAY

   
•  Stage five: Oh FINE we'll do school by email and we'll eat the lunch for dinner and I'll see you on Monday.

 

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H sent her English assignments by email:  

 

Today we were scheduled to start reading The Confessions by St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. (That's a place, not an animal, wise guys.) 

It is widely considered to be the first autobiography in the western tradition.  In beginning this reading, I would like you to consider the following questions. 

• What is the purpose of an autobiography in general?
• What do you guess may be the purpose of this particular autobiography?

Type out your answer to these questions and email me.

Your reading assignment is Book 1, Infancy and Boyhood. 

 

I sent my geometry assignments by email:

(1) read Lesson 8-7 on pages 310-311, "Locus and Construction."  If you have the teacher's edition I suggest you work through the two Classroom Exercises on pages 311 and 312; I was going to do them in class as part of the lecture.

 

(2) do written exercises 4--8 and 10 on pp. 312-313 -- all of them must be turned in for a grade.

 

(My assignments are much more prosaic than H's.)

 

(There was other work for the high schoolers too -- kicking off a week of Latin verb review, and work on a paper for modern world history.  But I didn't want to belabor the point.)

 

The younger kids had stuff too -- a map to draw, Latin flashcards to practice, poetry to recite, a story to retell in their own words (Belshazzar's Banquet, aka "The Writing on the Wall").  We got it all done, but it was much more boring.

 

 And now Mark is home, but he's going to spend the evening doing the taxes.  Sigh.  I mean, Yay!  I'm so glad he's doing them!  But... sigh.

Comments

[Kyra]

I'm right there with you. When one of the kids gets obviously, plan-shatteringly sick I go through the same stages. With an added level of "Oh no. Does this mean we'll ALL get (fill in the blank?). Why, God, WHY?!"

And then I go sulk for five minutes and recover.