The Week in Review

It was a pretty busy week at our household. On Monday Kara went into the hospital and had a C-section. Evan was finally born! Matt stayed at the hospital with Kara and the baby. The older three children and opa and I met Evan for the first time. Kara and Evan came home on Wednesday. Lincoln and great-grandma met Evan. We are now a household of ten: five adults and five young children. 

Even though it was a week of major changes, we were able to keep our homeschool schedule. That's a benefit of living in a multi-generational home. Well, Kara would say it's a benefit, the children might have preferred to take the week off or the month or maybe even the rest of the semester. I've known homeschool families who do that when a new baby joins the family. Not our household. We run a very tight ship.

LOL That's a bit of an exaggeration. We do manage to keep moving forward at a good clip, but tight ship is definitely not our style. We're dedicated to our educational goals, but we are flexible, too. Usually we study in the morning, but Bentley was an all afternoon student with Kara the past months while she was on bed rest. Now he's back to mornings with a little bit in the afternoons.

We held our monthly game night on Friday night. We had decided last week to keep it on the schedule even when Kara was scheduled for a Thursday C-section. When Evan was born Monday, that made entertaining on Friday much easier. The children love game night because they get to hide out upstairs and watch TV for hours. That's quite the treat at our house. Bentley went to Shrek (a play) with Grandma Karen and then spent the night at their house, so he missed game night, but he had a great time elsewhere.

How are the children adjusting to the new addition? Viva begs us to hold Evan every time she's in the same room with him. Jake and Bentley give him some attention, but not as much. Lincoln has to be watched when he's near Evan because his form of love is a little too rough. (The cat knows all about that.) Lincoln has not gone to bed easily the last two nights. It could be the new baby or the Friday night party and Saturday night family movie after his bedtime that he was protesting missing. We shall see how it goes this coming week. Getting a new baby in the house when you are still a baby yourself is a Major Major Life Change--how many points on the stress scale is that?