Since the wonderful Monday luck that I had a little over a week ago, many things have changed. Mostly our luck...but we'll start with the first big event. Trevor had a well-check for being 9 years old. Not really surprisingly, the kid is growing up, literally, quite fast. I was asking if he would please start to slow down, at which the doctor explained that no...he goes faster before finally slowing down. So he's now less than a foot away from over taking me. 92nd percentile for height and 76th percentile for weight. Not exactly a string bean, but he's leaned out over the years. We had a little conversation about how he'll probably be the tallest one in our immediate family and I don't think the idea really makes sense to him. I'm guessing its one of those things you can't really imagine what it would be like to be that big. I don't know that I ever really thought about it. I was usually one of the tallest girls in my class. Anyway....it was a good appointment and we had some good conversations about what is expected for his age.
Then, this past week, the kids have been pretty pumped to get close enough to Christmas to see it coming within a week. Unfortunately, Gwen got a bad cold starting on Monday night. She had a low grade fever, and didn't have any energy on Tuesday. So I explained she wouldn't be going to school. She was SO mad at me. She was crying "Mommy, PLEASE can I go to school. I REALLY want to!" Man, if I could have recorded that conversation to play for her later. It really gives me a peace of mind that we made the right choice for her this year. She got better that day and night so she was able to go to school the next day. So on Wednesday when she went to school so was so happy.
As a side note to all of this: Russ and I volunteered to help with the winter party in class on Thursday. They were playing a game that put the kids in a line to hand the game to the player sitting behind them. The class spontaneously chanted "cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-CHA" while sitting down and their teacher remarked...."this class is so fun...they will be remembered as the class that spontaneously breaks out to cha-cha." Russ and I see it too. The kids get along very well as a class, have fun and still know how to get down to business and do what is expected of them.
So on Wednesday, our traditionally busy day, we went from school to swimming to religion class. Trevor reported that he got two rocket rewards that day...at the beginning of the school day. The kids got their last day of swimming classes in, and we had to run to church after eating a quick dinner in the car so they could practice for Christmas Eve mass: bringing the nativity characters up to the manger. We made it just in time to practice and then get back home for a half hour before religion. This religion class was really just their Christmas party, which I volunteered to help for. When I got to his class, it turned out that they had more than enough people to help organize the snacks for the party. So we tried to get as much done as we could, but there was a lot of waiting around. Then my special time happened. The religion leader came in looking for someone to help drive a person that came in for confession, but broke their key off in their car lock and needed a ride back home to get their spare set of keys. I jumped at the chance. It was a perfect opportunity to pay it forward since I was the one in need just a week prior. The woman offered to pay me for gas, but I declined. She then said that she would pray for me and my family, and that was something I could accept. She needed a ride about 5 miles away and back, but we got back in plenty of time to do what was needed to help for the party.
I had a chat with Trevor about how lucky I felt to be able to pay my help back to someone that needed it. Because of his day of rocket rewards, and my luck he thought maybe it was just a lucky day for the Johnson family. I said that because of Gwen being able to get back to school that day, I knew she would agree that it was a great day for her as well. We decided that because Russ was in town to enjoy the day, that would be his lucky day as well.
So the kids are now off of school until next year. It started off with Gwen having a difficult sleeping night last night with her cough but she seems to be handling it ok. Trevor has been playing Ninjago/Lego Friends with her nicely for most of the morning and we have activities to get them through most of the next week. Christmas will be here quick! Happy Holidays everyone!
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