Monday: meh

 It was just a meh day.  Nothing really bad, nothing really good.  I'm trying to get remote desktop into a PC set up for a Mac and I couldn't figure it out.  It's a bit awkward because everyone I work with has little experience with Macs and almost all the students have macs.  To make the class work with COVID isolation and quarantine in a few weeks I need to have it up and running, but I couldn't get it and CIT was surprisingly unhelpful.  (They're usually great.)  I have the request in to someone else, but feel like a bother.

Isaac had a dentist appointment.  Joshua had karate.  Several of the observers didn't have masks or weren't wearing them correctly and it makes me feel unsafe.  If it continues I'll mention it, but don't really feel like I have the authority to say something.  I just moved to a different location. (People are spread out well, but...)

I feel about two steps behind and that I'm missing something major.  I think rather than that actually being the case it is just how the semester is going to feel.  Multi-tasking is hard.  I'm trying to accomplish teaching-work, house-work, Isaac's school, Joshua's school, and remembering miscellaneous things all at the same time (often very literally).  It's usually more compartmentalized.  If I remind myself of this sometimes maybe it'll help.

Sunday: play

 I moved Isaac's bed into Joshua's room this morning.  I put it at a 90º angle under Joshua's loft.  I was immediately reprimanded by the boys because it wasn't good for jumping.  After being annoyed at them because moving the bed would take up so much floor space I let them do it anyway.  Jumping commenced.

Joshua tried a new recipe today: Crispex with tasty water.  He didn't like it.

We helped Larry and Cheryl move some things from the boat to their house today.  The boys especially loved the wagon.

Saturday: the day

 I started by doing some work around the house.  I'm slowly getting rid of some of the planters on the back deck because they're heavy and they only grow weeds.  I found out today that one of them had three huge rocks in it.  Why?  It made the thing SO heavy when it needed to be moved.  And it was large enough that it wasn't in danger of tipping over.

I then pretended that as long as the washing machine/dryer was running I was doing work and read my book.

We briefly went to the dojang for promotions.  We all got new colors for our belts.  I've heard red is hard...there are a lot of levels in it, but it is the last one before black.

Isaac and I are now Christmas trees for a short while until the red uniforms come in.

We had a rainbow of belts when we got home.

Tonight Isaac and Joshua told me, in stereo, that they both sleep better when the other person is in the room.  This has been the case for Joshua for a long time, but apparently Isaac has been having some bad dreams lately.  (It's apparently going around.  Ben complained of it a few days ago and I woke up three times last night due to bad dreams.  I'll sometimes wake up once, but three is a bit much.)  I think we're going to move Isaac's bed into Joshua's room and see how that goes for a bit.  I don't want to be continually moving the bed, but I also see no reason not to let them sleep together as long as they can get good sleep. 

Friday: absurd

On the only slightly absurd end of the spectrum today, Joshua made a s'more.  Except that it only had two mini marshmellows and a tiny amount of Nutella, so calling it a s'more was a stretch.  He enjoyed it though.

On the more absurd side, Isaac was making a small cup out of Legos.  He put some tape over the Legos to make it water-proof, but it had a small drip in it.  The tape was in his bedroom, so he went into his bedroom to fix it and realized he didn't want water in the cup anymore.  So he poured it on his carpet.  We have been having several water issues with Isaac lately, and every time I say that spilled water is going to ruin something if it isn't cleaned up.  Every time.  Sometimes I yell it.  This time I laughed it.  But I have said it over and over and over again.  His only saving grace was that he told me without me having to pull it out of him. 

Thursday: school

 Joshua had some reading on Epic today.  That is on the Ipad, so he finally got to use the comfy cozy spot in the classroom.

Isaac had a writing assignment that included places that he could write.  He really wanted to do it on the floor, so I let him this time.  Most of the time I've been making him sit at the desk, but there are always times to 'break' the rules.

Tornado (and Horizon) both felt the need to check out the chip cabinet this morning too.

Besides that, the rest of the day went fine.  The normal craziness, but it was a controlled chaos.  I even managed to trim a bush-tree that was hitting the house during windstorms after accusing Dad of not giving our tree cutters back.  He had.  I took them out of the car and put them in the wrong place.  I trimmed the bush-tree in time for yard waste pick up tomorrow, and then realized that due to Labor Day pick up isn't actually until Saturday.

Wednesday: creeper

 There was a creeper at school today.

We also had karate back inside today, since gyms opened back up.  It was busy, but not too busy.  They did a pretty good job of keeping people distanced.  It is much easier to spin on bare feet on the mat than in shoes on asphalt.

Tuesday: survived

 Well, I felt a low level of stress all day.

We were running a minute or two late and then Isaac's computer was SOO slow and then it wouldn't let us join his morning video call.  He had several other technology problems throughout the morning too.  I'm pretty sure once we figure out all the places to put stuff and get stuff we'll be fine, but getting started is difficult.  He also had to post a picture of his spelling before he was allowed to leave a video call, but the instructions needed access approval for some reason so I had no idea how to do it.  The teacher walked us through it (and I realized I had the app on my phone), but ugg.

Joshua's stuff went smoothly.  I'm totally on board with how she organizes stuff, but again, there aren't quite as many different websites that Joshua needs.  So it isn't quite comparing apples to apples.

At 'real' work I gave a small exam.  It went much better than last time, at least in the number of questions during it.  There was one student who stressed me out a little bit for some odd reasons, but we managed.

Isaac did some spelling tonight, after we reviewed some rules for long A and short a yesterday.  He spelled all the words correctly!  I'm not sure I've ever seen him spell so many correctly in a row.  I know it isn't a huge deal, but they also had a spelling assessment today and it was not so good.  (I don't know how many he was expected to get right though, as they seemed to get pretty long near the end.)  I'll take the little victories.