catching up

This is going to be a nice long catch up post...so sit back and relax while I fill you in on events of the past week or so...

First, some non-school related SaG violations that I saw recently in Smalltown, USA on the way to a baby shower. Please let me know if these spellings are actually acceptable and I'm just ignorant.
1.) A car repair shop advertising "wheel alinement"
2.) the Smalltown Dinor
The best (worst?) part is that both signs were definitely permanent signs attached to the building, we aren't talking hand-lettered cardboard here, folks.

And now, school.
To begin with, it was a crazy, long week because the accreditation committee was here for the first few days, which reminded me of a first date because we all had to be on our best behavior, the school had to be spotless, etc, etc... I think that overall it went well, though we won't hear for sure until May. The guy who's sort of in charge of the whole thing told us that he's been in the private school arena for a long time and he really envies the community we have at our school. That was neat to hear.

Other things that happened recently...

I spent some time proofreading yet again...
“For example, the ‘Great Parables of Good Samaritan,’ Jesus continually shows an extraordinary concern for the outcast (such as leopards, blind, public sinners).”

I drove some kids to golf after school.
FS (riding shotgun): What are you doing now, Ms. Book?
me: I'm going to run some errands.
FS: Aaron? Who's Aaron?
me: Noooo, ERRANDS, as in e-r-r-a-n-d-s, like I have to stop at a few different places to do stuff.
FS: Oh. Why didn't you just say you have to go out?

I spent a couple of hours on the phone with Emily as we shopped for plane tickets to New Orleans. Shopping for a large block of tickets when prices keep drastically changing is not a fun activity.

I played my first game of basketball ever (okay, maybe I played in gym class at some point in elementary school?) in the student-faculty game. The students won. It was really fun though! (even though I had no idea what I was doing...)

We met at the school at 6 this morning to go to the airport to go to New Orleans. Halfway to the airport the van's transmission tapped out, causing us to coast to a stop at the edge of the highway during rush hour. We frantically made phone calls to people (no one from school answered at 6:45am...presumably they were sleeping in on their first day of spring break) to find rides for 7 of us plus luggage. Thank goodness for my pastor who was able to borrow another family's fifteen passenger van and come to our rescue at 7:20...we piled in, hoping to make it to the airport in time for our 8:40 flight.

We herded all of the kids and luggage inside at the airport...only to find out that our flight had just been cancelled due to the ice storms that hit the east coast this past weekend (where our connecting flight was). The next available flight was tomorrow morning, meaning that we had to call David to come back for us, drive home, drop kids off, and figure out how to get to the airport tomorrow. Thank goodness the van got fixed this afternoon! (the transmission fluid line came off and we lost all of the transmission fluid...so it's a good thing we pulled over quickly) So, tomorrow morning, at 4:45, I will be driving a van of kids and luggage back to the airport for round two.

The kids were good about it though, obviously it was a bummer...but no major complaining, just some disappointment...and hopefulness that everything will go well tomorrow!

Prayers are appreciated!
:)