3rd one down

Zari felt well enough to go to school this morning. Since it was a chilly 12 F (-11 C), I drove her and Dio to school.

But poor Dio...apparently he started feeling terrible during school. He went to the nurse but since he wasn't registering a fever, she sent him back to class. When I picked him up from school, he was shivering and shaking and almost crying. He promptly went to bed and has stayed in a sleep coma most of the day.

Ivy and Inga are outside playing in the snow. It's almost 10 pm. I told them, "Sure, you can go for 5 minutes." Several reminders and probably 20 minutes later, they are still outside. It's hard to say no when kids ask to play outside!

I have about 5 hours of Zoom meetings tomorrow. Need to gear up for the meeting marathon!

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Cold and sick

We'll only have one day in the next week where the temperatures will get above freezing! I'm ready to leave winter behind.

Zari woke up extremely sick with the same thing Ivy had on Thanksgiving. She was in bed all day, sleeping for much of the time.

I worked on her storm window frame this weekend. It randomly started rotting even though it's not really exposed to any consistent moisture. It even had mushrooms growing on parts! On Friday I soaked the rotten areas in a mildew remover (I figured it couldn't hurt). On Saturday I removed the completely rotton parts, drilled holes to help the wood hardener soak in, and then applied epoxy hardener to all of the soft areas. Today I mixed up the epoxy wood putty and rebuilt the frame. It's clamped and weighed down. Tomorrow I'll sand and get it ready for painting.

We finished Season 1 of Only Murders in the Building. It's been really fun although it has the occasional jokes that are a bit inappropriate for children. Eric clucks disapprovingly every time someone says an F-bomb, which actually draws more attention to it! We all know he doesn't like that word.

We left Zari resting in bed after dinner and went to the indoor track. The track itself was taken over by the baseball team, but the basketball court was empty. I walked the halls of the athletic center while the others played Horse and juggled soccer balls.

It's Christmas carol season. Ivy loves singing with Eric. I caught them at the tail end of a song, unfortunately.

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