Sunday, December 27, 2020
Friday, December 25, 2020
Christmas
Peace.
This Christmas, as the Prince of Peace appeared to the world, my heart was peaceful. I'm sure the things around me contributed: snow on the ground, not going anywhere, and a happy family. But there was a deeper peace too. The world is rather crazy right now, but God is not.
Anyway, the boys had to do two things today before we opened presents: play outside and play with Mario Kart before the floor got messy. Joshua wasn't really excited about either, but then finally started to enjoy sledding...until he tipped over to not hit a tree and face planted in the snow. Isaac proceeded to actually hit the tree a minute later, but there were no real issues. Isaac and I stayed out a little longer and cracked a bunch of ice. There were many air bubbles under the ice and I wasn't expecting that. We let a whole bunch go free.
Time to play! The boys got out their Lego sets. (Ben ended up doing more troubleshooting than normal though. In an odd change of pace, my back was hurting more than his. Once I started moving it was ok-ish, but I was moving slowly.)
I set up my Lego puzzle (still Lego themed!) at the table. Joshua was super cute with his. It took a bit to get the instructions up, but he looked thoroughly at the box and bags and told us everything. Then he looked at the first pages of the instructions and called out what bag when to what building. Then any time there was a completed part or just an interesting single part it showed it to everyone and explained why it was interesting. He was a chatterbox, but in a fun way.
Thursday, December 24, 2020
Thursday: Christmas eve
Isaac made some more Christmas decorations. I was quite impressed.
It snowed! We're going to have a white Christmas! I feel like it's been quite a while since we've had a white Christmas. There have been a few white Thanksgivings, but no white Christmases. A bird finally found the bird feeder that Isaac built in cadets last year.
We moved the Lego building back down to the basement because the tent was put away. It meant we could turn on the fireplace, which we haven't really done much of.
We also watched Into the Spiderverse with the boys. Ben and I remembered the movie as being more scary that we thought it was this viewing. The boys really liked it.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Wednesday: this and that
I found a 29 year old letter while I was looking through my stationary that had never been mailed. Since I finished it and kept it this long I finally mailed it. She just got it yesterday. Oh! The date was even perfect. I didn't do that on purpose.
Isaac wrote a spirograph program. Oh! It changed. It's still a spirograph program but he experimented with different colors and sizes. https://studio.code.org/projects/artist/ejF24xBP8BZqXdDp9a6Q-cXwC7nn76OwQ0WDpyuUeUk
I had several bad dreams today. (The second involved Ben putting broken Rock Band guitars in the toilet and then wondering why I was mad. Then Liz told me their new mask wearing plan, which didn't really work at all. Something like if they were exposed to the virus they waited two days before wearing a mask because they weren't contagious yet, wore a mask for one day, and decided they weren't contagious on day four.) (I have a lot of dreams about mask wearing.) Anyway, Joshua made me this rocket with rockets to keep the bad dreams away. The whole thing spins.
Monday, December 21, 2020
Monday: no school
The boys did an awesome job today, but I still found myself done at 4pm. I think it might have been the assumption that I wanted to play one too many make-believe games. I said "later" several times, but it annoys me. (I annoy myself and I'm annoyed by the games.) I finally played one with Joshua right before karate. It wasn't bad as Joshua tends to progress the games along much better than Isaac, but it was also nice to have a firm stopping point.
Sunday, December 20, 2020
Saturday: Christmas 1, piano recital
We had Christmas with Larry and Cheryl today. It was lovely to see them.
Friday, December 18, 2020
Friday
Why does he have tape on his mouth? I had no idea.
The boys are now on Christmas break! Hopefully we don't drive each other crazy over the next two weeks.