Friday: power outage

At 6:30pm, all the lights went out.  After the first moment of "what's going on?" I quickly realized the power was out.  The boys were all confused though, as they haven't experienced many.  Luckily, it wasn't pitch black out so we could still see a little bit. 

Also, phones now have flashlights, which is rather awesome.  We got the little lanterns from the basement, along with some candles.  The boys still finished their chores.  Then we had a little bit of extra screen time because I was ready for the day to be done and it's hard to do some of the other things (i.e., Legos) with the lanterns.

I like this picture.  There are candles for light (and a lantern) like the olden days, but then he's using a phone as a calculator.

The power came back on at 8:30, right after I had fixed Joshua's lights for the 10th time and was about to crawl under a blanket.  It really was perfect timing.

Thursday: Valentines and sparring

This morning I got to my office and there were some Valentines on the outside.  The Women In Science and Engineering made valentines for the women around the building.  They didn't forget me.  I was a bit surprised as I'm kind of on the sidelines, but it was super nice.

This evening Isaac and I had sparring at karate.  I'm usually rather intimidated by it, and today was no exception.  I'm usually put with the adults and high schoolers and am always the lowest belt rank (by quite a bit).  We were playing one point matches.  I won the first one, although it was against someone I know so it was a bit easier.  Then I was put against a large high schooler black belt who has a lot of experience.  But I won!  The teacher gave some good advice ahead of time.  I lost the last match.  I watched Isaac a bit too and he did well.  He isn't the most aggressive, but he still puts himself out there and gets a lot of kicks and punches in.

Wednesday: Lego Duck

The LUG (Lego User Group) that I'm a part of is having its members make the Lego duck.  We were given the instructions, but could then make it our own.

I chose blue.  But then I didn't want to make it all blue so I added grey and now it is a winter duck.  It's reading because I like to read.

Tuesday: writing

I was looking through Aunt Sue's book of memories today when I came upon this picture.

It's one of those pictures that I've seen several times throughout my life.  I looked on the back to see if there was a date.

There was.  In Mom's handwriting.  I don't run across her handwriting very often anymore, but it's nice when it happens.

Monday: Pokeball's birthday

This morning Joshua and I made good guy towers and bad guy towers.

I noticed this warning on a new cat toy.  "Adult supervision is recommended for children under 12 years of age."   Really?  For a little cat toy?

Also, it was Pokeball's birthday.  We sang to him and everything.

Saturday: escape room

Spoilers...there are some pictures of an escape room at Out of the Box.

We went to an escape room today.  It was Isaac's birthday present, but he had completely forgotten about it.  It was a rather nice one, in that it was a bit different than your normal escape room.  You just needed to solve a bunch of puzzles (like normal) to find doubloons but they weren't all interlinked.  There were also some doubloons hidden around the room, so it was easy for the boys to find some too.  (Not that they couldn't help with some of the puzzles, but finding the doubloons in between the puzzles was fun.)

Friday: a walk

Joshua and I were on the south side of town for some errands today, so we went to a different spot for a walk/sled ride.  There was just enough snow for the sled...any less and it wouldn't have worked out very well.