What? Aren't the banks and Post Office closed?

Well today had an interesting start. For weeks now, I've had on Malachy's calendar that today was a school holiday (Columbus Day). Steve's daughter spent the weekend with us and had no school today as well, although she lives in a different city. However, a neighbor whose children go to the local school here, told Steve that there was school in Fremont. I thought that was strange.

Upon awakening this morning, I decided to log into Malachy's online school just to double check. The school was logging attendance. I shot off a quick email to his teacher to see if today was a school day or a holiday. She informed me that it was indeed a school day. I looked back at the scheduled days off and noticed that it's 11/11 that he has off, not today which happens to be 10/11. Gerrrr-ate! Now to break the news to my boy who was still lounging around in bed, watching an iCarly repeat.

After a brief bout of verbal disappointment (fancy way of saying he threw a little tantrum), he had his breakfast and we settled in at his desk to begin the day. I figured I would keep it easy today since I am the one that initially screwed up.

We went through his French class, spelling class and math. We also did his language arts. Then we took a break, had some Halloween costume shopping to do (fun, fun!) and enjoyed a rare lunch out to celebrate his ten star days. We came home, put away the shopping bags and are finishing up on the last of his classes today.

In the end, not too bad of a day, both school and personal. Phew! That was a close call!