Random Updates

It's Monday and the kids are finally back at school after being off for spring break for a week and a half (two weeks for Ben, if you count his Washington DC trip with the 8th grade). I'm happy to have the house back to myself for the majority of my work day, but a bit grumpy at the 6:15 alarm I have to set again. Two more months of school left, so we're into the home stretch!

Our front yard got dug up last week and our plumber put in a new water line from the house to the edge of the driveway. The leak they said, was in the yard somewhere. The next day it was apparent that the leak was NOT in the yard, as the leak was not even a little bit better. The city came out (I think the plumber called them because I didn't) and replaced the rest of the pipe between the yard and the meter. And behold, no more water leak. So as far as I believe the leak was never in the yard to begin with, so when the plumber sends me the bill for that I may have a thing or two to say to them about it. But at the moment no one has asked for any money, and considering that it took 2 and a half months to fix the leak, I'm not inclined to pay anyone in a hurry.

We enrolled Caroline at our local Kumon center for math enrichment, and she started last week. She goes on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons for about 45 minutes, and has around 20-30 minutes of math worksheets on the other 5 days of the week. So we are just about done our first week. The first few days were a little rough, as they intentionally start kids below their level so that the work is easy at first. Of course, easy math is not what makes Caroline happy so she was very grumpy at first. It gradually gets harder of course, but there's a lot of repetition especially with basic math facts as part of their teaching method. So we'll see how it goes. They recommend sticking with the program for two years. Wish us luck with that ;)