The boys and I did social studies and Bible this morning. They’ve been leading up to David and Goliath for about a week and today they finally got to the part when he kills him. After that David cuts off his head and takes the head of Goliath to Jerusalem. They were wondering what he would’ve done with it there. Well it was supposed to be a sign for the inhabitants that the frightening Philistine warrior was dead and that God had delivered Israel from the hands of their enemies.

But I don’t know what they would’ve done with it. Earlier Dad took our high school aged son to drivers ed to meet the instructor in the parking lot at 7:10. Because we are a private school they have to do driver’s ed through the public school. The instructors can be a little sour about this, or so I’ve heard from some meeting where there were trying to get driver’s ed set up with the new school location. There was another school board meeting tonight that said they will need about 20 million dollars to rebuild.

That includes athletic fields and parking. I have yet to drive by the demolished building. I told the boys after school that we could bring up the Christmas bin and start to decorate some things but that didn’t happen. We played with Zorro outside for a while and took videos to send to Elianna. She said she thinks he’s bigger already and it looks to me like he definitely is, but still small enough to have that very cute puppy look. I feel like I love him and am feeling a bond.

But it’s the boys who are doing most of the work with him. I take that back, Dad is too. He will take him for walks and hang out outside. I will do “down” and “sit” with him for treats but Elianna said she didn’t want us training him too much. It’s fun training dogs because you feel like they’re listening and then you get to shower them with ruffles and praise. I still think it’s funny that we have all these cats and just tonight again there were four in the living room. They just hang out and chill and don’t ask for much.

I slept instead of doing any Christmas things. The boys watched Youtube videos for a while until Dad took them both to pick up their brother. Zorro went with them. The housekeeper knocked on the door a few minutes later saying the power was out in the kitchen at main camp. The fridge and the freezers had started to warm. I called Josh and told him and Josh called Tim and Tim came out and saw a fuse had been blown. The electrician guys came later and did something to fix it.