Today the kids are at the British School for the last time. The school year officially ends here on June 25th, so we're ditching early. Today is the last day of classes, but my kids are getting together with their classmates on Wednesday for some laser tag. So we will get to see everyone one more time.
I went downtown this morning to pick up a couple of things that I want to bring home. I blew through my list (and Myles' money) with no problem. We have five suitcases completely packed, closed up and ready to go. There are three suitcases sitting open on the living room floor. Each one has a specific job and NO ONE (but me) is allowed to add to, take away from or even look in the direction of these suitcases. It is going to be a delicate operation getting everything home. When we came here, we were each allowed to check two bags and take two carry ons. Now since the airline rules have changed, we are only allowed to check one bag each for free. So we are going to be paying a hefty fee to check the five additional bags we have. We weighed the options, and paying the $50/bag is much cheaper than shipping. We still don't like it, though.
So we're getting loose ends tied up here. As the kids and I are arriving in Olathe on Sunday, Myles will be leaving Gdansk for a conference in Denmark. He will arrive home on June 25th, probably the minute after I get everything up and running at home!
There is a school dad at home who is in the car business. We have contacted him by email and he is currently on the lookout for our dream, used, inexpensive, totally loaded minivan! Hmm, we'll see what he comes up with given those parameters. I have no doubt he will find the perfect van for our family!
Ben has one small section left of online geometry. We plan to get that submitted today or tomorrow. Then he has a couple of assignments left for English. Once those are finished we are done for our year of home schooling. We started the home school program in mid October so we made very nice progress.
Next week I have all kinds of people coming to our house in Olathe to restore order to our lives. The a/c guy is coming to check the unit. After living in Poland for nearly a year (the high temp today is 60), we are very unprepared for the wall of heat we are going to hit when we arrive in KC. The phone and tv people will be setting up service for us. We are having some other miscellaneous jobs done, so I will be having lots of traffic in the house.
Then there's the unpacking. I don't even want to think about it! But I'll get the essential things out of the attic first, and then I'll plow through the rest over the course of our short summer. Somehow it all gets done.
These last days are flying by in a hurry. We keep reminding ourselves that even though there is much to do, we need to enjoy this short time left.
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