Goodbye Mrs. Courteny

Despite the amazingly cold night and icy precipitation last night, we still had school this morning - this was a surprise that we weren't even going in later.  It just warmed up this morning, just enough to get us all to school for the day.  The temperature was 35, and that was hard to argue with.  Driving out to school, we could see there wasn't really a problem with the roads whatsoever.

So early we rose, and early we started, spending the day cleaning up.  Madison had fun returning to school today, and meanwhile Mommy and Daddy were inside mostly, moving things about the house, cleaning up, and writing messages for the upcoming Star Wars series.  This is taking a long time to do, which is surprising, as this is the sort of theme that should have been easy.  The problem, I think, is that there is so much to write about.  Also, it's always a bit of a process.  Sometimes, a thing is easy but it doesn't feel exactly right.  And so it gets tweaked over and over again until at last there is a flow we can walk away from.  So far, we have about six messages written, and have two to go.  Also, there's a devotional that needs to get finished - lots to do still along those lines.

Madison had speech therapy again today, and for today, it was the last appointment with Mrs. Courtney, who Madison has loved all this time.  They really enjoy time together, so much that Madison was very sad to hear this would be their last time together.  Still, she understands what's going on, how Mrs. Courtney has just gotten married and needs to find a new home.  That explanation from Mrs. Courtney worked well, and the two happily parted this afternoon, after a longer visitation than usual.  And yes, there was a nice picture for us to look back upon later.

It was a good night tonight, with homework to do, more reading about the Constitution, and a little bit of piano practice as always.  There was a bit of Disney Infinity 3.0 as well, and leftovers from the food this week for dinner.

But the end of the night was a surprise.  Madison was already in bed - and we had no idea this was going to happen - there's no school tomorrow!  Yes, there's supposed to be ice and snow in the forecast.  It must really going to happen, if they've already called the day off.  You think it'll snow tomorrow?  We'll find out soon enough... right now, Madison doesn't know.  We left a note over her alarm clock, the one we turned off, one that reads:  "NO SCHOOL TODAY!"