Our school district did away with half days (for the most part) this year, which I think is great. However, this has caused some confusion with the calendar. Most of the schools decided to make this Thursday a teacher in-service day (it was a half-day in the past years’ calendars) which means my kids now have 3 days off school, and a 5-day weekend.
Part of me feels like we should have tried to travel somewhere, as 5-day weekends during the school year are rare, but we just got back from the epic trip over Christmas and my 16-year-old and I are taking another epic trip over spring break. We just put the deposit down and bought flights for our Christmas trip at the end of this year and I am feeling a bit…over-indexed on trip planning and spending.
So we are not going anywhere. But there is still a reasonable amount going on, and the kids would likely not have wanted to miss various parties (including a Galentine’s Day sleepover that I am…kind of jealous of!). My husband and I will also be celebrating our 23rd anniversary of meeting and our 22nd anniversary of getting engaged. I will be hosting some special visitors – more on that after it happens! I will likely be visiting my parents on Monday to celebrate my dad’s 80th birthday.
I planned this weekend lightly during last week’s weekly planning. I’ll plan it more tightly tomorrow. I decided to get the kids little Valentine’s day baskets because…why not. It’s cold and icy and we need a little levity around here. No one has any early tournaments on Saturday — the first weekend this has happened in a while. And the last as robotics starts back up again…
I just got back from the elementary school where they had the kindergarten “Habitat museum.” All the kids made projects showing where an animal would live in the winter. We walked around and saw the projects. The children said words like “torpor hibernation” with straight faces. So cute. I did an interview from 2-2:26 p.m., ran out to my car, and was there in the classroom at 2:36, only six minutes late. I’d warned my little guy, so he was fine with it. I love it when things work out like that!
Photo: The habitat. The blue is not actually water, in case you, like me, would have made that grievously wrong assumption.
