Today we woke up to no water on the boat - plenty of water outside the boat but no "running" water in the boat. Rather frustrating as this has been a problem off and on for a few weeks. So, instead of the usual routine of school we had to make other plans.
After I had a good melt down in true tantrum style, throwing the coffee container into the sink (it is plastic but it broke when I put it in the sink with a little force, oops and more to clean up now). I am at my wits end here with 4 years of waiting to be on our big boat and have space to swing a cat, I got Aaron to help me with the dishes. We toted them up the dock to a faucet/tap in our wagon and washed everything there. There was also no water last night on the boat so we hadn't got those dishes done from dinner, and there was quite a pile of em. We came back to discover that Abi's clothing that was left on the floor after her shower yesterday morning, was coated in something rather curry smelling. Apparently the curried chillies we brought back from England without having a single drop leak in our baggage decided to leak out of our fridge and onto her clothes which were on the floor outside the fridge. Turns out, Abi had actually put the curried chillies in the fridge on their side, big mistake. And why her clothes were there instead of in the laundry, only Abi knows. Those curried chillis will leak at the best of times. I hand washed and soaked her clothes (favourite things from England) then handwashed and soaked my shirt I was wearing when I cleaned her things because it also got curry on it.
Eventually the kids got their breakfast around 10.30am. Aaron was in a hurry today so that he could go play with Ashton. He got through his Math, Reading Skills and some spelling but once again we didn't do History since it seemed cruel to make him after all his help with dishes this morning had delayed our day.
Abi started her work after lunch and eventually got done around 5pm. She mangaged 2 lessons of math - hoorah! I don't know how she would keep up with 11 subjects in the UK. Reading skills and spelling work she also got through.
Tomorrow we will do Latin and History - I am probably being a bit ambitious but we have to catch up a bit.
This evening it is storming and we need to go to the stuff mart as we seem to be out of everything plus we need something for dinner. Justin replaced the water pump around 2.30 this afternoon. I got to have a shower so can now actually be seen in public and bettter get moving. I am starving. There wasn't enough bread or mayo for mom to have lunch so I have just had 3 coffees. I wish we could go out to eat as it is already so late.
Hoping tomorrow goes more smoothly than today.
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