Glad Monday is Almost Over!

We went to Jason's parents this past weekend. We spent quite a bit of time in the pool and just hanging out. We didn't get home until 10:30 last night. When we walked in the front door I thought that it felt pretty warm in the house, but didn't think much of it because Jason had turned the air down while we were gone. Well, after resetting the thermostat and waiting for awhile it still wasn't getting any cooler. Air was blowing out, but it wasn't cold air. Turns out our A/C is broken. It wasn't unbearably hot last night, but was pretty humid and everything just felt sticky. We opened the windows and turned on the ceiling fans and attic fan. Early this morning we woke up to strong winds and pouring down rain, which meant that we had to turn off the attic fan and close the windows. I was watching the trees blow around and we turned the TV on to see if there were any warnings. Well, there was. There was a tornado warning. Usually tornadoes don't come into Peoria. It must be something about the river valley or something like that, but I'm not usually too worried about it. Then we heard the tornado sirens go off. I really didn't want to wake the kids up and take them downstairs, but it felt pretty irresponsible to ignore it so we each got a sleeping kid and headed for the basement. We still haven't cleaned or arranged the basement and there really isn't any furniture down there, just boxes. I stood down there holding Henry for about 30 sec. and decided I would take my chances and went back up to the living room. By this point it was obvious that neither Audrey nor Henry were going back to sleep, so we had a pretty early start to the day. There were a lot of tree branches down around town, but no tornado touchdowns. So, we didn't have air today. Someone is supposed to be coming out first thing tomorrow morning to look at it. Henry had shots this morning at 9:30. He did pretty well. It didn't take him long to calm down. Audrey, on the other hand, gets pretty worked up about Henry getting shots! She has now proclaimed that she isn't going to go to kindergarten because she isn't going to get shots! She said that she wanted to go to home school. I told her that she would still have to have shots even if she was home schooled, and then she said that she was going to skip kindergarten and go straight to 1st grade. She talks about wanting to go to home school because her good friend Emma is being home schooled starting this fall. We have started to look into schools for Audrey. It seems really crazy that she is going to be starting school next year. We are checking on tuition at a couple of private schools because we don't feel comfortable with the public schools in our area. I also just found out about a good public school a few miles away that takes out of district student for a tuition fee. I seems to be cheaper than private school but you don't know if there will be open spots until last minute. I think they wait and see how many kids from the district are enrolled before they open enrollment to other students. Anyway, it is thunder storming again, and we are sitting here with the windows closed, steaming. I think it is supposed to be cooler the next couple of days. It probably will cool off and be nice as soon as the A/C is fixed :)