What an interesting and busy couple of days I have had!
Monday we woke up to no heat or hot water...with ice covering the ground this is a really bad thing! The boys who all had to skip showers were consistently at each others throats and I have to admit I was a little glad to not have to deal with them all day after that! Well the day just kept rolling in that not so wonderful way...I had to take my car into the shop to have the brakes looked at...not that this is ever an easy or pleasant experience but when you live in one country and your car is from another country this can become downright painful. So I had to take in every paper this car has, and drive to the other side of the next county to a dealership where they had to keep the car until the warranty department could tell us if it was covered by them or not...AUGH! Well my friend who was going with me was nowhere to be found and on top of that I now was also waiting for maintenance to come and fix our heat, hot water, front porch light, bathroom sink and dishwasher..WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS!!! Anyways, Terri finally showed up, the maintenance people said they couldn't do anything but the heat until the next day so I waited for it to be fixed and left to take the car in. Well the good news is the brakes were covered by insurance but they also checked and fixed the nonworking air conditioner and it wasn't covered so I have to pay 50pds ($74) for that and on top of that one piece of our brakes aren't in so I have been without a car for the past few days...God provides though and Terri has driven us to the bus stop the past two mornings and ran to the commissary for me! AMEN!
So on to yesterday. The guys finally came to fix my bathroom sink, still no front porch light or dishwasher though...the car still isn't back...and we get an official message stating we have to move house! Now there are so many pieces to this. First of all we have been in this area for a year and a half and we have already lived in three places...temporary housing for two months, an awesome old school house for almost a year, and then into this house on base last April! We are in debt to the military for all these moves and that debt will be paid off in April, the older kids school bus leaves from this base and my daughter graduates her GCSE's this year (the end of required schooling in the U.K. and had planned on doing her A Levels (college type classes or university prep) at the same school. Anyways, this base is going to minimal manning and our division is being reassigned to a base an hour away so we don't have to leave the area but we have to leave our HUGE beautiful house on base and move to the economy. So we are dealing with that. Where do we want to live? How can we move again without putting ourselves further in debt? etc etc etc..
Now on the good side of it all Brandon's paycheck for his movie should be coming in soon so we should be able to pay off the military debt and catch up any loose bills we have, and its income tax season and we usually get a pretty decent return so we could use that to actually do the move but still my daughter can't really move or switch schools until she takes her GCSE's at the end of this school year. We have until August 1st to be out but at the same time our family is the largest on the base and out of the 11 families that have to move our housing allowance is among the lowest so finding a suitable house is really going to take faith in God!! So being open to anytime is rather important.
On the good side I have gotten in three hours at the shop this week (I manage a teeny tiny little shop on the base that is only open 8 hours a week) and will do another three today. I am testing Chris and Chelsea in math so I know where they are in case we have to or decide to homeschool one or both of them with this move, and I made our homeschool schedule!
I also have figured out my plan for the boys math this term. We are using Mammoth Math as our spine with Gnome Math or Living math on Fridays. Gryphen is going to be using MM light blue 1Aand 2A(1A appears to be mosty review so we should fly right through it, Phoenix will be using MM Blue time, money, european money, measurement and school express story problems and some UK money sheets I have found online. My reasoning is that I want the boys to start year 2 together so they can learn together and so I figured I would work on Phoenix's weaknesses while I work on Gryphen's general knowledge and then start 2A together in September and can add in the extra stuff for Gryphen as he needs it. (He may do some UK money this year when he does US money). Tristan is going to be using the MM Blue workbooks on his trouble areas and then work through 5A in light blue and 5B in gold.
So that is where we are now. I need to clean the house a bit and hopefully maintenance will come and fix my dishwasher. I will wait around the house until Brandon calls to let me know about the updates on the moving thing (meeting this morning yay!) and then open the shop. Boring Boring Boring (how I love a boring day)!!!
Monday we woke up to no heat or hot water...with ice covering the ground this is a really bad thing! The boys who all had to skip showers were consistently at each others throats and I have to admit I was a little glad to not have to deal with them all day after that! Well the day just kept rolling in that not so wonderful way...I had to take my car into the shop to have the brakes looked at...not that this is ever an easy or pleasant experience but when you live in one country and your car is from another country this can become downright painful. So I had to take in every paper this car has, and drive to the other side of the next county to a dealership where they had to keep the car until the warranty department could tell us if it was covered by them or not...AUGH! Well my friend who was going with me was nowhere to be found and on top of that I now was also waiting for maintenance to come and fix our heat, hot water, front porch light, bathroom sink and dishwasher..WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS!!! Anyways, Terri finally showed up, the maintenance people said they couldn't do anything but the heat until the next day so I waited for it to be fixed and left to take the car in. Well the good news is the brakes were covered by insurance but they also checked and fixed the nonworking air conditioner and it wasn't covered so I have to pay 50pds ($74) for that and on top of that one piece of our brakes aren't in so I have been without a car for the past few days...God provides though and Terri has driven us to the bus stop the past two mornings and ran to the commissary for me! AMEN!
So on to yesterday. The guys finally came to fix my bathroom sink, still no front porch light or dishwasher though...the car still isn't back...and we get an official message stating we have to move house! Now there are so many pieces to this. First of all we have been in this area for a year and a half and we have already lived in three places...temporary housing for two months, an awesome old school house for almost a year, and then into this house on base last April! We are in debt to the military for all these moves and that debt will be paid off in April, the older kids school bus leaves from this base and my daughter graduates her GCSE's this year (the end of required schooling in the U.K. and had planned on doing her A Levels (college type classes or university prep) at the same school. Anyways, this base is going to minimal manning and our division is being reassigned to a base an hour away so we don't have to leave the area but we have to leave our HUGE beautiful house on base and move to the economy. So we are dealing with that. Where do we want to live? How can we move again without putting ourselves further in debt? etc etc etc..
Now on the good side of it all Brandon's paycheck for his movie should be coming in soon so we should be able to pay off the military debt and catch up any loose bills we have, and its income tax season and we usually get a pretty decent return so we could use that to actually do the move but still my daughter can't really move or switch schools until she takes her GCSE's at the end of this school year. We have until August 1st to be out but at the same time our family is the largest on the base and out of the 11 families that have to move our housing allowance is among the lowest so finding a suitable house is really going to take faith in God!! So being open to anytime is rather important.
On the good side I have gotten in three hours at the shop this week (I manage a teeny tiny little shop on the base that is only open 8 hours a week) and will do another three today. I am testing Chris and Chelsea in math so I know where they are in case we have to or decide to homeschool one or both of them with this move, and I made our homeschool schedule!
I also have figured out my plan for the boys math this term. We are using Mammoth Math as our spine with Gnome Math or Living math on Fridays. Gryphen is going to be using MM light blue 1Aand 2A(1A appears to be mosty review so we should fly right through it, Phoenix will be using MM Blue time, money, european money, measurement and school express story problems and some UK money sheets I have found online. My reasoning is that I want the boys to start year 2 together so they can learn together and so I figured I would work on Phoenix's weaknesses while I work on Gryphen's general knowledge and then start 2A together in September and can add in the extra stuff for Gryphen as he needs it. (He may do some UK money this year when he does US money). Tristan is going to be using the MM Blue workbooks on his trouble areas and then work through 5A in light blue and 5B in gold.So that is where we are now. I need to clean the house a bit and hopefully maintenance will come and fix my dishwasher. I will wait around the house until Brandon calls to let me know about the updates on the moving thing (meeting this morning yay!) and then open the shop. Boring Boring Boring (how I love a boring day)!!!
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My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Like you said, "When it rains, it pours!" WOW! Hopefully this is it for a loooooooooooong time! ((hugs))
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