Thursday: last day - sort of

Today was the last day of classes!  I'll still see everyone for the final exam, but I said "happy summer" to my TAs.  (Which felt odd because it was cold and rainy, not really summer weather at all.)   The end is in sight.

Finally.

Wednesday: things

I put the new bed quilt on the bed today.  Although it doesn't look like it much, it is Minecraft inspired from a floor pattern Ben made a long time ago.  It fits the theme of this household lately.

Isaac had to go to school for some testing today.  (He got in the car and was so excited to tell me he found someone else that played Minecraft and that they had both finished early and had the same mechanical pencil so they wrote notes to each other about Minecraft while they waited.)  I needed to get out of the house a bit before picking Isaac up, so Joshua and I stopped by the library.  We got a lot of books.

I found this surprise in the garage this afternoon!  A strawberry plant, in a pot, from Aunt C.  I'm not completely sure how she slipped it in there without me noticing but it was fun to find.  I'm excited for strawberries this summer!

Tuesday: work

I was so thankful to go to work today.  Joshua had just cried for a half hour because his cheek hurt.  He said his cheek hurt because he was crying.  So basically, he had no idea why he was crying for a half hour.  I was glad to hand him over to Carly and leave.  My guess is he was a bit more tired than normal and going back to reality can be hard.

I think he calmed down fairly quickly and they finished a lot of school work in the afternoon.  Isaac also finished a lot of work, and is almost caught up from vacation.

I made porcupine meatballs for dinner.  It's been a while since I've put any effort into dinner.  Ben and I liked it, Joshua didn't.  I know that Joshua doesn't like many things, but he often likes meatballs.  Porcupine meatballs have rice in them too, so the texture was quite a bit different.  It was almost a rice and ground beef stew.

Monday: home

Everybody got home safely this afternoon.  I felt a little bad because I put the kids to school work promptly, but there was little complaining.  (The little complaining that did happen was after they had worked hard for a while too.)

Ben and Isaac greeted me first; Joshua went right to Horizon.

They needed to leave the house at 8am this morning to make the flight, but Ben got up early so they could all go in the pool one last time.

Sunday: stuff

Today was my last day alone.  While I'm not lonely, the evenings are getting a little long.  Tomorrow morning I'm planning on trying to get more work done than the rest of the weekend.  (Although I did finish the few things on my "really do this" list.)

I brought some more bottles back to Meijer.  This time I focused on the bags of bottles because they don't stack as well in the garage.  I had about the same volume of returns but got $10 less.  Afterwards I went for a walk in a park.  It wasn't as fun alone, but I also didn't get asked "how much longer?" at all.

It was a beautiful day, so after nap time I put up the hammock and read for a bit.

I'm also about to finish the binding on a new bed quilt, which was one of my non-work goals for the weekend.

I just heard that the boys managed to go in the pool four times today, so they achieved their goal too.

Friday: stuff

Today went by quickly.  I did a mix of fun and work, as expected.  I returned $24.90 worth of pop cans...quite a bit, but really only a small dent from a years worth of pop cans (and fizzy waters).

Tornado rested oddly on my legs for a bit.  He was still, but his tail was always moving so he didn't really settle.  (It's good, because it was rather uncomfortable.)

I exercised.

The boys spent over six hours in the pool today.  They only went in three times though, so I guess they haven't quite hit their goal of four times.

Thursday: and they're off!

 All the boys left today for a long weekend in Florida.  There were some plane problems and so they sat in the plane for an extra two hours before they actually took off.  But they made it and were excited to get to Florida and swim in the pool.

As for me, I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend at home.  Well, the seagulls were rather loud this afternoon so I guess it hasn't been too quiet yet.

I have several errands to run tomorrow, including returning at least a few of the pop cans we've accumulated over the last year.  Our garage is really too full of pop cans.  There's also some school work...I'm not really behind in grading but almost.  The other work thing I want to get done is to deal with the game closet.  It's hard to get in and out of it right now based on how the school room is set up, and so games have been getting put outside of it instead.

Of course, there are some fun things I want to do too!  There's quite a bit of quilting and reading and we'll see what else happens.  In the past I've done a good job putzing...a little work, a little play and I'm hoping that happens again this weekend.