Once home they will grab a snack and we will continue our school day with Botany & History. Then while I make their lunch, one will begin piano while the other is on the computer doing Latin & Greek root words and typing. After lunch they switch, then school is done. Sometimes we'll go out and throw the ball for the pups until our arms are tired or the pups get tired. Sometimes the boy's may build contraptions with Legos or use my camera to make Lego movies. Sometimes we will go to the river for a bit or watch a movie until it's time for me to start cooking dinner. Then we eagerly await Dad getting home, we all greet him with kisses and help him by taking his lunch box so he can get he's boots off and get to the shower.
That's a typical day in the Corbett home!
On the way home from the gym one day we stopped at the river with our fish trap and caught a mess of Shiners for the boys new fish tank. We also picked up some really neat drift wood, plants and a few tadpoles and crawfish to put in it so it really looks like the river. It turned out great! I'm sure the Shiners don't know what to think of the two HUGE gold fish in the tank but they all get along so it's all good. Flap Jack (a soft shelled pancake turtle) got a new piece of driftwood for his tank too. Keegan caught a baby fence lizard and wanted to bring it home but we decided it would be too hard to catch food small enough to sustain him so we let him loose.
Unfortunately we had some excitement as the remnants of hurricane Ike rolled through late on the 13th and ended up being without power for a couple of days. The boys lost all the beautiful "Shiners" they'd just brought home. We just got our power back on late last night. It had been out since the wee of hours Sunday morning. We had to miss church which was a bummer! We had a pretty bad storm roll through late Saturday night into Sunday but it must have been worse just a few miles south in Cherryville because that's where all the power poles got snapped in half. We were on that power grid so we were roughing it for a couple days. Thank goodness we didn't drain the pool last week because we were bailing water out of it for flushing toilets! We finally broke down about 3 pm yesterday and went to the gym and let the kids swim while we sat in the hot tub just so we could take showers there and then get a hot meal in town. All the way home the kids were praying the power would come back on. Just as we were pulling into the driveway we saw the outside lights come on! Halleluiah!!!!! Nothing like trying to grind coffee beans in a ziploc bag by candle light with a rolling pin! Thankfully all of our freezers and refrigerators held up and didn't unthaw. That would have been very, very bad! They were all completely full. We only lost some ice cream sandwiches = ) Now to finish a TON of laundry! I bet Ed and hubby go shopping for a house generator before winter. They couldn't stand it, it was funny to watch. The boys kept saying things like "wow, so this is what it was like in the middle ages." Too funny!!! It's beautiful today though, the suns out and it's nice and cool. I just got back from the gym and we are headed out to the patio for our math lesson.
Have a blessed day and pray for all the victims of hurricane Ike!!!
