Busy Week (Sept 23-28)

We had a crazy week again since Wed. I think the kids had been sleep deprived since Wed. We got home after church (YW activity and the cubscout) around 9:00pm and helped the kids with homework. It was probably 11:00pm when we sent them to bed. Then on Thursday night, we attended Jeannie's school open house. This kid is taking two AP courses (Bio and Euro), as well as other honors classes this semester. We wanted to meet with her teachers and make sure she is not killing herself. Once again, she went to bed around 11:00pm because dad needed to check her math homework when we were done with the Open House around 9:00pm.

Jeannie always wanted to play sports for the school. Although she did not make it to the school tennis team, she came home about a week ago and expressed interest of joining the school ice hockey club. The team practices and have games on every Sat. from Sept to March. It was a 4-hour commitment and the fees was more than US$1,400 excluding the gears and uniform (which is another $1,000+). Thank goodness that she decided to withdraw after finding out the cost and fees for the club.

Waking up at 5:00am everyday and taking full loaded courses... I just pray that her health would not be jeopardized by the overloaded schedule. The kids started having allergy, both having stuffy nose, and sore throat for Jeannie. I hope she did not get Swine flu like one of her best friends.

On Sat (Sept 26), we took Evna and Jeannie for an acupunture session. It was Evan's first time ever to the acupunturist. According to the Dr., Jeannie has better health than Evan, so Evan ended up having more needles poked into his body - one on each elbow, four on the back, one on each side behind the ears, and two on the lower back. I don't think Evan enjoy it at all. Hopefully, we don't have to go back next week! The Dr. gave them some herbal medicine as part of the treatment, and if their situation doesn't improve in a week, the kids will have to see her a second session. I was totally exhasted by the time we got home, but had to get to the stake center for the General Relief Society broadcast. I especially enjoyed the talk by Sister Thompson. It was a great evening.

Then on Sunday, we got to the church half an hour early because the Young Women were performing a song during sacrament meeting. I also taught the YW a lesson on Raising Above Peer Pressure during the third hour. Church wasn't done for the day. We rushed home, grabbed something to eat while I baked cookies for the visiting teachers and home teachers. Their appointments were scheduled back to back and we were not done until 6:00pm.

Thank goodness, the kids had Monday off, and they got some rest before Sister Cook and the missionary came over for Family Home Evening. It was the start of our busy week again...