Thursday: stuff

I've almost finished the laundry.  I feel like that is all I've done for the last three days; I didn't do it last week and then we went camping and it rather exploded.

We're also in the middle of dealing with a bunch of things that require other people.  Assorted work on the house, meetings, etc.  Ben and I sent several emails to each other the last few days and then took a while when he got home to discuss everything else.  It's nothing all that major or stressful, but it feels like a lot of things to remember.

Therefore, it was especially funny when we had a conversation today that spanned about five hours.  Ben told me something when he got home.  After the kids went to bed I responded.  An hour later he responded.  (It wasn't a fight.  It was just one of those random things where the other person had information and it took a while to relate it.)

In other news, Joshua made a penguin giving a piggy-back ride to Ben.

Wednesday

 I took in the sleeping bags after airing them out and someone promptly claimed them.

Cheryl took us out to lunch.  Besides camping, it's the first time we've been out to eat since ...I can't remember when.  Probably about last May.

Tuesday: back at it.

I got a remote page turner for the kindle!  I've been looking for one for a while.  Either I didn't look very hard or it recently came on the market.  I am excited for warm hands and not having to move my hands when I'm comfy.

Our mattress was feeling sloped so I was taking a look.  (We recently raised the headboard and didn't support the slats properly.)  That's besides the point though.  The insides edges of the bed were ridiculously full of dust.  One more thing to put on the periodic cleaning list...

Joshua worked really hard on making an alien ship today.  He really did a great job.

This is how I found Isaac watching one of his videos today.  Giraffe has been sitting on his head a lot lately.

Memorial Day weekend

We went camping this weekend at the Conference Grounds.  It was a bit cold, but it didn't rain at all which was nice.  We go with some friends (and some family/friends of them).  It's nice to have some people to do things with, but there aren't many expectations and we can do our own things too.

We got there right around dinner on Friday.  I often try to get there a little earlier, but between the kids being at home and it being cold we waited to leave.  Not much was all that interesting about Friday night, but the kids enjoyed the playground and we had a fire.

Saturday we did the fun run.  It was a bit of a fun walk.  The boys completed the mile in 15 minutes while I showed up a few minutes later.

Afterwards we collected Ben and took a walk to the lake.  There's actually a bit of sand this year, which was nice.  ...not that we played in it though as it was also rather cold.

We went on the wagon ride.

And played mini-golf.  Joshua got his first hole-in-one on hole one.

Ben also participated in a game of dodgeball.  Sadly, the parents lost.

Sunday we did some frisbee golf.  Sometimes the boys were way too silly, sometimes they did a nice job.

A very old frisbee finally hit the dust.  This is rather unimportant, but I did like the juxtaposition of "life is good" on a broken frisbee.

The boys loved the merry-go-round.  I went over a few times to give them pushes and they would just stay on as long as I'd push.

Ben and I enjoyed our books quite a bit too!

Monday we slowly packed up, took a walk, the boys played on the playground, etc.  Nothing very special, but it still took us until about 2:15 to leave!  Packing up doesn't really take that long, but there were assorted talking, reading, and walking breaks.  Many people seemed to leave before lunch this year which was a bit surprising and it felt empty by the time we actually pulled out.

Thursday: home

Ben's home! Ben's home!

Wednesday: game

 Joshua's been playing a game around me these last few days.  It's one of those games where he follows me around while I work and I need to just say a few things here and there to progress the story.  (Usually.  Sometimes I need to be more involved.)

Part of the armor has also come with wrist-maps.  This map is a pretty simple one, but I've seen some more elaborate ones too.

Tuesday: sleep over

Since Ben is gone I said we could have a sleep over tonight.  Joshua was very excited.  I got the little mattress out in the morning and he got his bed all set up.

I think he might have been a bit disappointed in the execution though, because I didn't go to bed at the same time as the boys.