Thursday, May 13, 2021

Thursday: finished

I finished several things today.

*I finished giving an exam.  There was a computer issue for one student that was annoying, but otherwise it went fine.
*I finished most of my grading for lab.  I just need to wait for two labs from someone who received an extension and for the grader to finish her part to put grades in.

I also didn't finish several things today
*I didn't fold the basket of clean laundry from the last two weeks.
*I didn't finish freezing the chicken, but I did at least start it.



Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Wednesday: exam week

It's exam week.  I feel like usually exam week is a little bit easier, but this time it feels a little crazier.  I think in part because there's more grading than last semester and the boys are at home.  

If you ask me what I did this morning, I'm not sure where the time went.  I exercised, had a short on-line meeting, took a shower, did a little grading, and ... I'm not sure what else.  Probably I answered a bunch of questions from the boys.  Oh!  Joshua read me a book and then trapped me.  I still feel like there's at least an hour and a half unaccounted for.  I'm sure I was doing something productive, but still...

Monday, May 10, 2021

Monday: in pictures

 



Ben was looking especially cute as Isaac was trapping him.


I ended up ordering my tea from Amazon because it was cheaper than the grocery store.  I'm set for quite a while now.

We're still doing karate at home and so I need to improvise a lot with Joshua.  They were crawling under somethings and then jumping over some things.  Joshua apparently really enjoyed the crawling because he wanted a picture.


Sunday, May 9, 2021

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, May 7, 2021

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, May 6, 2021

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, May 5, 2021

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!