Thursday, May 26, 2022
Thursday: Operation: Clean the house - quilting area
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Wednesday: back at it
I've decided to start wearing a mask in public again, at least for a little bit. I know that Ottawa county currently is classified as "low risk", but I'm not sure if I agree. I feel like many people I know are getting it and people are probably taking home tests and not reporting the results.
Furthermore, I've been a close contact and not been notified properly. I understand that people don't seem to care much anymore, but... (I did not get COVID from the close contact. It's been several weeks now.)
I also scheduled the boys' booster shots. I know they're in a good position since they've been vaccinated and had COVID, but they're eligible so we're going to get them. I was a little mean and scheduled them on a Friday after school, so if they don't feel good it's going to fall on a Saturday. But they're doing so many fun things in school right now that I didn't want to schedule it on a school day.
This came home from school yesterday. I'm not sure Joshua completely got the point. "I will show integrity like Rosa Parks by not giving up my seat."
Tuesday, May 24, 2022
Tuesday: a day in the life
Monday, May 23, 2022
Monday: productive
Well, it ended up being a productive day. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to pull it off, but I just kept checking things off the to-do list. I brought Grandma to her doctor's appointment and then "made" her go fabric shopping with me. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip.
Joshua gave his animal report at school today. He was the only penguin (which he's holding). There were apparently a lot of giraffes.
Sunday, May 22, 2022
Thursday, May 19, 2022
Thursday: field trip
This was a class picture, but I zoomed in on a small part.
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Wednesday: productive
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Tuesday: sleepy
Monday, May 16, 2022
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Weekend
Friday Ben stayed home from work and we celebrated our 18th anniversary. We mostly did normal things, but we did them together.
Saturday we started the sprinklers. It's always a fun time for the boys, but by the last zone Joshua was cold and they don't enjoy the stationary ones as well as the ones that move. So Isaac ended up finding several of the hidden sprinklers in the last zone by himself! It felt like a milestone, even though it's something we only need to do once a year. The sprinklers went really smoothly this year...until the last one. Isaac and I spent about 10 minutes looking for it before we finally found it. I was about to give up, but really didn't want to call the sprinkler people just for one silly one.
Today Joshua and I finished a 300 piece puzzle that we've been working on for a few weeks. It was the hardest puzzle I've done in a while, and it was only 300 pieces! I ended up finding pieces that fit and giving them to Joshua one at a time. I usually didn't even need to tell him what region it went to, but it was otherwise rather overwhelming.
Friday, May 13, 2022
Thursday: the day
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Wednesday: Happy birthday!
Tuesday: weather
Friday Joshua wore fleece-lined jeans to school.
Today, Tuesday, Joshua wore shorts and told me he still got too hot.
What happened to spring???
Monday, May 9, 2022
Monday: Tulips
It was the first beautiful day of summer, so after school the boys and I went to the food stalls downtown and walked around the tulips.
Isaac got a carmel apple and Joshua got carmel corn. I was disappointed in their choices because they weren't things I wanted to share, but they were both really happy with their choices. I know I could have gotten my own thing, but no getting something for myself was probably the wiser choice.
We had a fun time looking at the tulips. Joshua found all three orange tulips in the park and got a picture with them.
Isaac found the windmill in the tulips. I had to put Joshua on my shoulders in order to get a picture and there was a lot of laughter.
And I found my favorite bright red tulips.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Sunday: Mother's Day
My mom's name is Amada.
She is 39 years old.
Her hair color is brown.
Her eye color is blue brown.
(A picture of me with a frying pan.)
Her favorite color is blue.
Her favorite food is almost all
Her favorite place with me and my brother
She laughs when she hears Joshua as a joke. ("Want to hear a silly joke?" "Sure" "Joshua")
She is really good at making dinner
I love when she brings us on a trip.
She says ----/\----. (He didn't know, so just wrote a squiggly line.)
Overall he was pretty accurate. I don't like "almost all" food, but I only make what I like. I also don't think I'm all that great at making dinner, but I do make it consistantly.
Friday, May 6, 2022
Friday: pass
Thursday, May 5, 2022
Thursday: work
I went in this morning to grade for a bit before a department lunch. Well, that bit ended up being shorter than I expected because people kept coming in to talk to me. I didn't mind, it was much more fun to talk to people than to grade. Everything is more fun than grading. Except that I still need to grade and I didn't finish what I had been hoping to do today.
There was a short meeting after school for band for Isaac next year. He'd like to do drums, but that is one of the instruments they can't start until sixth grade. (It seems a bit silly to me, but I'm sure there are reasons.) So he's chosen flute for at least a year; we'll see what happens after that.
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Wednesday: grocery shopping adventures
Monday, May 2, 2022
Monday: dominion
Isaac and I played an interesting game of Dominion today. There were several "when you gain a card, gain at least one more card". I finished the game right before Isaac's crazy turn, but we determined he could have ended up with 10 additional cards. Surprisingly, while the decks were large they didn't feel all that bogged down with annoying cards.