Today is one of those days where I’d love to just sit by the fire and stay warm and dry. We’ve mostly had the computers off because of the big storm we have been having here. Electricity went out twice, but it came back quickly, so that was good.

On the down side, the older kids do their core curriculum kinds of things on computers using the SOS curriculum for their grades. I printed off a few things so we could feel like we were doing something educational. As usual, though, we got a lot of education just by living life.

Today, life sent us a big ol’ storm. We had one chicken shelter flip. Out of 200 or so laying hens, we only lost one. When we saw that shelter flipping, I was thinking we lost more than that, but amazingly enough, there was little damage inside the yard.

So we got to go out in the sideways rain and fix things up for the chickens.

The funny thing is, it was a dreadful task but everyone did well and we laughed and talked and got through it.

What is not so fun is that 3 of the smaller children are sick right now. So we have the combination of can’t go out to play along with whiny and fussy. They still have all the energy, they just tire sooner so they get whinier faster. 

I’m trying to stay positive. To that end, Bella made cookie bars. I guess that is the silver lining to my cloudy day.

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