Pained glass Part II

Sorry I didn’t finish my original story last time, Kelcy dumped a large glass of water all over the desk I was working on, so I was unavoidably delayed.

Back to our story: We had a snow day! School was canceled on January 4, the first day back from Christmas break. Jerry stayed home with the girls while I went into work.

The first day back to school was good. All the kids were pretty well behaved. It was Tuesday and we had chapel that morning. Miss Springer had the lesson and led the singing. She taught about resolutions and how we could all resolve to be better people. Certainly something we all need to hear! We didn’t have library that Tuesday.

I taught my firs art class that Thursday afternoon. It was a lot of fun for me and I hope the whole class. The class consisted of all of the kids from third through eighth grade. We stated off learning about the kinds of lines and how to find them in our physical world. The kids all did really well and proved willing to answer questions and draw examples on the board for everyone to see.

Saturday we went to Flagstaff to do our semimonthly visit to Sam’s to stock up on lunch snacks and frozen foods. We also did some Christmas shopping for the girls with the Christmas money they received. We had a nice trip, no snow or scary wind this time. We also purchased a “Mad Lib” book. Jerry had asked me to find one. His class was beginning grammar and diagramming and he thought it would be a fun way to learn about the parts of speech.

Sunday morning, we had church at Red Sands and Dilkon . We had I think sixteen at church on Sunday? I had two in my Sunday School class. They were good kids and we learned about Daniel , Paul and Peter and where they found the strength to face the oppositions.

Sunday night we drove to Dilkon for the pot luck meal there. I took potato salad, Mr. Bill made hamburgers and hot dogs, Miss Springer brought dessert and the Navajo ladies brought fry bread and baked beans and a wonderful chocolate cake. While I was driving over to Dilkon, Jerry was doing the Mad Libs with Abby and Kelcy. At one point, I was laughing so hard I could not see to drive. Of course right after that, my window fell down inside the door. As you may recall, last week the passenger side window fell down in the door. Well, this time it was the driver’s side door. I was just driving along and “poof”, it disappeared down into the door. It was pretty cold outside. We stopped at the Little Painted Desert to see if we could get the window up, but we didn’t have tools with us, so we headed on to Dilkon—about 10 to 15 miles with the window down. It got pretty cold on the girls, but we didn’t have to worry about the potato salad getting too warm!

We got the Dilkon at dusk and Jerry and Mr. Bill were able to get the window back up. It was a little irritating, but I tried to keep it in perspective. It is not like someone is sick or something bad has happened, it is just going to take time and money to get it fixed. On top of our windows, the front windshield in our truck was going to be replaced on Tuesday. The truck windshield had been hit by a rock out on I-40 and the hit began to crack the windshield. Hence the name of the blog—the glass issue is getting a little crazy.

To get to more serious matter, we lost four students over Christmas break. Three students moved away. I talked to the mother of the three who moved away and I am sure that she is doing what is best for her family, but we sure will miss that whole family. One student transferred to another school. It is hard to adjust to so many changes. I started elementary school in one school system and completed high school in the same school system. It is very difficult for me to imagine changing school like that as a child

Abby and Kelcy have had a hard time adjusting to coming back to Arizona. They ask every day when we are going back to Kentucky. They miss their friends and their “red” house as they call it. I really didn’t think that leaving would be this hard on the kids.