Thursday: grading

Grades are almost done.

I was hoping to finish by 4pm today.  It's now 12:49am and I'm done.  There are still a few little parts to deal with (after multiple reminders, the wrong files still got uploaded), and I actually have to put in the grades, but it's mostly done.

Hooray.

Wednesday: cupcakes vs. muffins

Isaac gets muffins and cupcakes mixed up all the time.  So as we were talking about them today, I said that muffins are usually a bit healthier and cupcakes have frosting on them.  Isaac wanted to know what would happen if you put frosting on a muffin.  An excellent question.

He has also realized that 6 and 9 are the same, only upside-down from each other.  So there have been assorted comments, usually rather insightful and funny, because of that.

Tuesday: book

Every year our church recommends a book for the church to read around this time.  At first I didn't pick it up.  Then last year I read it because our Bible Study was reading it.  This year I read it on my own.  I usually only read fiction in my free reading time, so, I'll admit, I felt pretty proud of myself.

I read this book in a slightly different way from normal, and it really worked well for me.  Instead of trying to read a large chunk once every other week I read a little bit every day or so.  This helped me think about what was in the book a lot more and it didn't feel like such a daunting task.

I'll have to do it that way next time too.

Old news: legos

I never gave a summary of our Lego creations.

I made a robot army.

Isaac played with a bunch of things, but also made assorted creations out of banana pipes.

Ben made a cool boat.

And we had dumped out all the bins this time and found a lot of non-Lego items.  It surprised me, because last year we made a point of taking out all the non-Lego items.  And there were still a ton left.

Sunday: last day

Today was our last day with family.  It was sad to leave, but I'll also get to see Nathan before too long so it wasn't as bad as normal.

After a yummy breakfast we went to a playground and to see the original fort of Fort Wayne.

Saturday: presents

Today started out with bagels and eggs.  Afterwards we opened presents...so many wonderful things!  It's fun to fund things under the tree that I had forgotten I had put in the list for me and the kids.

We played with the toys quite a bit.  A cash register was popular with both boys.  Isaac really liked a circuit building toy and Joshua really liked his remote.  Some of the other toys just stayed out away...they will be a lot of fun another day.

Joshua was a bit out of it, so he took an early nap.  After everyone was up from naps we went for a walk because it was about 70 degrees out.

We frosted our cookies, ate dinner, and played with the toys again.  A lovely and relaxing day.

Friday: family

Today we were with our family.  We got good donuts, played, took naps, and went to a playground because it was rather warm.  In the evening dad and pat showed up and we cut out cookies.