Sunday: Mother's Day

 While we didn't do too much special for Mother's Day, the boys did go out and get some donuts and a Lego set.  Isaac made me a donut man out of two of them.

(Ben also took my picture with the kids, but neglected to send it to me.  Hint. Hint.)

We worked on Lego sets.

In an effort to be an equal mother to both lovies, I took a picture of the Lego set giraffe with Giraffe.  Giraffe didn't become the lovie of choice until slightly later in Isaac's life, and I never had to keep track of him during errands, so I don't have the same attachment with him as I do with Grey Bear.

Joshua made a card during his school time.

Tornado kept me company while I worked on some lab grading.  Most things have been turned in for this class, so really the only thing holding me back from wrapping it all up is the grading.  I'm not super far behind, but I also wasn't as on top of it as I was at the beginning of the semester.

Friday: downtown

 I completely ran out of tea for spice tea.  I couldn't believe I'd do something like that.  I finally found it on-line at the grocery store.  (It was under tea, not iced tea.)  The store texted and said they were out.  I "almost" panicked and was trying to figure out when to look at Meijer.  But one jar showed up!  I was relieved.

We went downtown for snack time.  The boys selected cotton candy and I selected pop corn.  Everyone ate a reasonable amount though.

I also picked my wedding rings.  Sadly, they had needed to be slightly resized to a larger size.  I just decided that keeping them the same size wasn't worth only being able to take them off once in a while.

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.