Earthquake!
So we had finished in record time, having pre-completed Algebra I and a 25 minute technology video. We are trying to follow the schedule set in the lesson manual and start at 8:30 and finish by 2:30. Our neighbor came to the door so her little sister could use the potty ( it's a hardship to have just one bathroom when you have more than four children) and she no sooner shut the door when the room started shaking.
"Sweetie (not her real name), is there shaking outside, too?"
"No!" she exclaimed. So I sent Hannah upstairs to turn off the washer, which must be a whopper out of balance!! The whole house was shaking, things were coming off the walls, and it felt like the washer would explode. Hannah did not want to go upstairs, but I was holding the sleeping baby, and she must've realized it would be better to stop it before something worse happened. By then the shaking had stopped and I tried to get the five yr. old to use the bathroom. Her big sister questioned the sanity of this instruction: "Is it safe?" I tried, but did not communicate well, that if it was not safe, it was best to get the bathroom needs out of the way before we started panicking.
Then the phone rang, and I was informed that it had to be an earthquake, which news reports did confirm. We were on edge the rest of the day, starting at each sudden noise, thinking we'd have an aftershock.
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