Weekly Wrap Up - Week of the Hurricane

These weekly posts seem to come faster and faster.   It's hard to believe we've finished up our fourth week of the "new" school year.  I guess it's not new at this point, but it sure feels like it.

Our church hosts a huge children's/teens consignment sale twice a year, and this week is the "Winter" sale.   Lindsey put in 8 hours of childcare time on Sunday, and I worked a couple of hours in the evening inspecting items and getting things moved out to the sale floor.

Monday Olivia provided childcare from 9am - 2pm.   Lindsey and I dropped her off and then hit the grocery store to stock up on extra bottled water, allergy medicines and dog food in preparation for the hurricane.   That doesn't sound like a lot of preparation, but I typically keep 3 months worth of supplies on hand (canned foods, bottled water, hygiene items and toilet paper).   I just rotate through so nothing gets wasted/expires, but we've always got extra on hand, just in case.    We came home from stocking up and Lindsey knocked out her school work.   She took over the child care at 2pm to allow Olivia time to get home and get ready for her volleyball game.  Although this was the 5th game of the season, it was the first game in their division.   They dropped the match by a hair for their first "official" loss.   The official Hurricane Florence hullabaloo began for our area.  At the end of today we were being told by forecasters there would be "catastrophic flooding and damage" in our area.

Tuesday we were home all day with the exception of volleyball in the evening.   Olivia's volleyball team played her old team.   This was one of the best volleyball matches!!   Varsity plays best 3 our of 5.   We took game 1 and 3, the other team took games 2 and 4.   Game 5 only plays to 15 and it was a real nail biter.   Our girls were able to hold on and win in the end.  It was especially gratifying for Olivia to beat her old team (sorry if you think that's wrong, but there were reasons she decided not to play there again this year.)   I continued to monitor the weather situation.   At the end of today we were being told 10-12 inches of rain instead of the 24-30 inches predicted yesterday..

Wednesday we awoke to find that the storm had "shifted" and now our area is looking at "only" 2-4 inches of rain instead of the original 30+ inches they were saying.     Homeschool day at the museum was officially rescheduled to later in the week and workshops for the JLS kids for Saturday have been cancelled.  Our washing machine (less than 3 years old) decided to go wonky on me.  The sensor that tells it when the water level has been reached stopped working.  Thankfully I was home and working in the basement on something when I realized the water should have cut off and hadn't.   Crisis averted!   The repairman I called researched and said he thinks it'll be too expensive to fix.  I disagree, since I've had it less than 3 years. I'll be researching how to fix it myself.   Volleyball practice was from 4-6pm, then church at 7pm.    Things are looking up with the storm, we're down to 6-10 inches of water in our forecast.

Thursday morning the husband called to tell me that his work is closed Friday-Sunday and possibly Monday because of the storm.   Two hours later he called back to say they are working Friday now, and Monday won't be decided until Sunday night.  Crazy.     We headed out to the chiropractor then picked up regular groceries.     The outing put us behind on getting school work started.  Lindsey was still able to finish pretty early.   Olivia had to break for volleyball practice and then finish up when she got home.  I took Lindsey to her practice, then sat to read for a while.   Now they are saying we may only get 2-4 inches of rain from the hurricane....we shall see.

Friday Lindsey will be at the museum.   Homeschool day was scheduled for the day, but that got postponed due to the predictions for the storm.   Olivia has a regular day of school then she'll be off to volleyball.  After volleyball Olivia will be doing some babysitting for a Bible study group.    Today they've lifted most of our warnings as we all see that Florence isn't going to be  a threat to us.    I'm very thankful for that, and praying for those who are getting hit.

Here's to a safe weekend!