Monday Sept. 21

Today was pretty good for a Monday. I think it’s because I felt more prepared for this new week with a good weekend behind me. My kids were good today and there were a few times I was like wow you are being really quiet and attentive right now. The only exception was in our last hour of spelling they kept talking. Therefore, I didn’t let them play a game to study for the test tomorrow; they had to write out their lists over and over instead. Sometimes I wonder if I’m too strict, but I think that if they want to be able to play games to learn, they need to be able to listen and they weren’t. Anyways, it was also Laura Beth’s birthday today, so she got a lot of Happy birthdays from her music classes and her 6th grade gave her a birthday party the last hour of school. It was fun to see the kids get really into it. We headed down to town on the school bus after school because we wanted to have a celebratory dinner for Laura Beth and Julia’s belated birthdays. We arrived in town and Kirsty called us to let us know that Zelaya was supposedly back in the country so there was a 4pm curfew in the entire country. Now granted we’re in Gracias, in the mountains and the curfew won’t be as strictly enforced as it would be in Teguc or SPS. But to be safe we started making plans to head back up the mountain. Thanks Zelaya you picked great day to “come back in the country.” It wasn’t even confirmed he was actually there, but a curfew was out just in case to keep riots at bay. Most of the stores were closing anyway so we probably couldn’t have found anywhere to eat. So we headed back up the mountain! We made a dinner for LB here and then we got a call that because of the curfew, we don’t have school tomorrow!! The curfew is from 4pm til 7am Tuesday morning so the kids can’t come to school. Crazy…it feels like a snow day except there’s no snow! So we enjoyed our night and watched ‘What about Bob’, which was hilarious and just what I needed.