Wednesday: spring cleaning

It has been a wonderful rainy week, Isaac was playing well by himself, and I was feeling in a cleaning mood. (A rare occurrence, so I thought I should take advantage of it.)

So I cleaned the laundry room.  There was lint all over and stuff piling up on the dryer.  It wasn't a super deep clean, but I did move the dryer so I could get under it.

It might be another year before it gets cleaned again.  I hope the room is happy; I am.

Tuesday: in rememberance

Today was the 11th anniversary of Mom's death.

I remembered her.  I thought about her more than normal.  I missed her.  I loved her.  But I wasn't overly sad today.  There are times were the grief still hits really hard.  Today was not one of those, and I decided that I was ok with that.

Monday: RIP balloon

We got a balloon in October when we went to a birthday party.  It headed to the basement, where it got played with a medium amount.  Yesterday it managed to come up the stairs and was played with a lot.  Today it shrank.  It must have been a very tiny leak because it took most of the day for the balloon to get to half its previous size, but shrink it did.

We'll miss you, green balloon.

Saturday: friends

Hanneke and Abby came over for dinner and to just hang out.  It was really nice to see them again.  (And they oohed and aahhed over Isaac. :)

Yeah, it was really nice to see them.

Friday: cold

I still have my cold, but I think I'm slowly on the mend. This has been one of the worst colds that I've had in a long time. I went through two mostly full boxes of Kleenex, so we took an emergency trip to the store today. But at least my nose only needs to be blown about once an hour versus the once every fifteen minutes that it was last weekend.

Thursday: theme day - monkeys

Isaac has really been enjoying his monkeys (and he knows the word), so I thought today would be a good day for a monkey theme day.

He wore his monkey pjs.

After reading some monkey books, he took a nap with green monkey.  Then it was time to wake up and have lunch!  I hear monkeys like bananas, so he had some of that.  (Notice he's also wearing monkeys.)

Later in the afternoon I put on a movie about monkeys.  He was excited at the beginning, but it did not hold his attention at all.  However, the Curious George show that we watched while waiting for an oil change captured his attention very well.

Wednesday: curry and light

I made another batch of curry today.  It turned out nice and thick.  I don't know why.  Every batch seems to turn out so differently and (most of the time) I have no idea why.

Dad came over for the curry and then helped us replace the light in the office.  There was a fan/light combo that had spotlights for lights.  It meant that the lighting in the office was really bad.  So now we have a a nice diffuse light.  Hurray!