end of the week! Woo Hoo!!!

Steven and I had a blast today with our science experiment. We finally had a lovely day outside today, so we were able to play with warm diet coke and mentos. Warm diet coke works much better than cold. And we made a lot of mess and a lot of pop geysers out in the backyard. We varied the number of mentos and then measured how much pop would be left after the explosion. The only problem we had was at the point of dropping four mentos into the bottles of pop - the explosion was so extreme that it would blow the mentos right back out at us!

We've also been loving every minute of the Ken Burns documentary mini series The Civil War. We are watching it as a supplement to his history readings.

Tomorrow we are heading down to Muncie to try to visit with Bill for the long weekend. We will be camping in a state park on a lake to the south of town. He is having a hard time adjusting to college thus far, and sounds very tired and very grouchy in most of his emails and phone calls. Hopefully getting his new ipod will cheer him up a little bit.

This week at work has been difficult. There has been short staffing, and it seemed like we walked into a new (or worse) mess every day. You spend half of your shift just trying to clean up the mess that got dropped off in your lap the minute you walk in the door, and your own work just gets all backed up, and it has just been stressful and bad. I am very glad that it is over, and that I can have four days off to relax (though if Bill is extremely grouchy it might not be relaxing and I will be trying to get ahead in lesson plans for Steven all weekend). Ah well. Part of life. I lived through this week. And even if the weekend is awful, I will live through that, too.