Ups and Downs

We have been planning our trip to Hawaii since last summer.  The condo was paid for then.  The rental car taken care of then.  The only thing remaining beforehand was the airline tickets.  Last year those tickets were in the $700 range.  Yeah....not doing that.  I have been waiting all this time for the flights to become a bit cheaper.  This spring they started nudging downward.   A little at a time.  Great prices to fly at times other than when our condo is rented.  Patience.  And more patience.
The tickets finally came in under $500.  I would have preferred under $400, but at this point I think it is the best we are going to get.  I went to the airline to see how full the flight was that we wanted and it was getting full.  So I bought the tickets.  The money had been set aside for that for a long time.  And while I maybe should  not do it being as how our circumstances are changing....I did it anyway.  We will make do in other areas.  This could be our last big trip for awhile.
I had invited Cassie to come out.  I need a babysitter just before our trip and my brother will already be gone as he is going a day earlier than we are.  I wanted the littles to get some nice one on one time also with their mommy.  They have been questioning the living situations and feeling a lot left out.
Naturally I planned and God laughed.  Now the whole family is coming which means my littles just got a back burner. But I remind myself that anything they get is more than they had and they will be happy about it.  So we coordinated and bought tickets so their whole family flies together.  And the littles are excited for them to come.
We had therapy.  And she broke the news to us that she is leaving the Children's Center at the end of the month to move to Arizona.  Her husband got a job there.  It is another change.  Change just sucks in our world.  But we will get through it one day at a time like always.  The littles didn't seem to take it in or it is just more of the same for them.  I took it in and thought great.....another person to explain things to.  As I have stated before....I'm so tired of explaining all the time.
We talked about the school issue and she said if we can't get them to school the only option left is going to be homeschooling.  Yup.  I still can't see how that looks yet.  But I have started already in small ways.  The little man had to write out the shopping list.  We talked about rivers and why they rise.  We talked about protagonists and antagonists.  They liked that one.  They have noticed that all movies seem to have a bad guy. I love how their brains work especially when they share what they are thinking.  I showed the little man the tricks with multiplying nines.  He thought that was cool.