This Week at Our House # 3

1. It was a cold week that ended in the first big storm of the winter on the East Coast. Though, we've gotten more rain than snow. I dragged the family to Washington D.C. on Wednesday to visit the Air and Space museum. John came along and was mostly happy until we got a $100 parking ticket for being a half hour too late to move our car and then he was grumpy, but still drove us through a large traffic jam and a snow storm before handing the driving back over to me.
2. I had been thinking about how Ruth is the next one to have a birthday, and she will be 18. (Just typing that makes me gasp.) Ruth had Friday of last week through Wednesday off from school and we had only done a bunch of cleaning and unpacking. That is why I made a quick decision to just take off and have a family day, even if it meant driving 4.5 hours there, spending 4.5 hours at a museum, and driving 5.5 hours home. I think it was worth it. We had a really nice time, and we won't all be here next year. 
3. Ruth had a lot of time off from school. She is applying for jobs and it is hard. The online stuff hardly works. I hope she does get hired soon. She is so good and such a hard worker. I may gasp when I think of Ruth turning 18, but she is more adult now than child, and I am very proud of the adult she has become. Ruth may not have thought the Air and Space Museum was the greatest, but there were a bunch of young men in ties and suit jackets on a field trip there, so she at least had something she liked to look at.
4. Kate had her first week of homeschool. She works very hard and spends many hours on her studies. I don't think I will ever have to tell Kate to work. Instead, I'll have to tell her to take a break.
5. Johnny is a very independent homeschooler, and that it nice. He mostly does all of his work without any reminders. He definitely enjoyed the Air and Space museum.
6. Adam loved the Air and Space Museum. He even read the descriptions of the displays and then would come over to me and tell me about them.
7. Rachel really quite enjoyed the museum. Her favorite part, though, was the gift shop. Now she is begging to go back to Washington DC to do and see more. I am now having Rachel work more closely with me, so I can help her with reading and math. 
8. Anya walked or ran like an airplane most of the way through the Air and Space museum. 
9. Joseph ran as an airplane, but he thought it was fun to crash into his other siblings and be a crashing airplane. Joseph obviously really loved the museum too. He even read some of the description and would tell me about them.
10. Josh was a cute little airplane through the museum, and he was in little Joshy heaven with all of the things that go. 
11. Arwen's favorite part of the Air and Space museum was a brass statue of a dog in the boat and gps display. I thought that fit her quite well. 
12. Suzy was the only kid to have any behavioral issues in the museum. But she is a baby, so she is excused. 

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