What a rollercoaster of a day!

Not sure exactly where to start. Homeschool this morning was rather uneventful. I find #1s lessons to be a bit boring and dare I say, dumb. She is pretty darn smart so the information is way too easy for her. After a long discussion with my parents last night, I decided to visit the private school in town today. I have been there a few times in the past, as this move has been 4 years in the making. I do love it. It's adorable. The classes are super small. I had a great convo with the admin lady, met the incredibly sexy 6th grade teacher (Um...Hello Sir), and saw another 6th grade girl pushing a micro pig around in a stroller. :) I left there feeling confused. It's a pretty neat school. Is it worth the money? Would it help us acclimate to the community? Oh, I forgot to mention before we even left the house today, the Love machine caught on fire. Yeah, so that was exciting. I'm not exactly sure what happened but I caught a glimpse of my dad running past the window. When I went outside I could smell the smoke. I corralled all the kids in the house, then ran as fast as I could to get a hose. The fire went out without any major incidents. The full extent of the damage to the van is unknown yet. I am just happy it didn't explode. Hooray for not starting a major forest fire today. Score one for us! Oh and of course, Hooray, no one was hurt. I had actually started today finding my dog eating an animal leg on the porch. Every morning he has been bringing home new treasures. ( I think I mentioned the possum?) This body part was relatively fresh. The neighbor across the street has a 100acre sheep/goat farm. The leg seemed goatish perhaps? It was actually kind of cute because we turned it into a homeschool lesson. Again, using the "scientific method" we decided to "investigate". We took a little walk over to her house. Apparently she had put one of her goats down, cut off its legs and fed them to her guardian dogs. I find it weird...why would you feed parts of the animal to the dogs trained to protect to them.  But ok...mystery solved. Anyway, the morning was hectic to say the least. After the Open house, we went to a children's resale shop about 40 minutes away. Then we went to Costco. It wasn't a complete nightmare but it wasn't pretty. By this time it was after 5pm.  We were all tired, hungry, and grumpy so it was less than pleasant. We got out of Costco after 7pm. The icing on the cake for today is my husbands phone call right about then.  Bad news, the buyer backed out on the house in SD. We were so close. We were almost all back together again. Back to square one! What a let down! What a rollercoaster of emotions. For as tired as I am, I cant believe how much I wrote....guess I had to get it out.