Wednesday: Donut Tour - Collin's bakery

 After swimming lessons, in which Joshua swam two lengths of the short pool all by himself!, we went to a new bakery for donuts.  They didn't actually have many donuts, but they did have many delicious looking baked goods.

Would we rather go to Donutville (last time) or this one?  The selection was actually so different that it would depend on what we were feeling like rather than on our favorite donuts.

Tuesday: life goal

Isaac seems to really be enjoying working on this puzzle with me.  He's been able to find his own pieces and (today at least) he didn't talk too much.  He talked an appropriate amount about appropriate things.

It was absolutely wonderful.

My next life goal is to be reading a book and have a child snuggle up next to me while reading their own book.

Monday

 It was on the cool and windy side this morning (at least after recent weather) so we stayed inside most of the morning.  Isaac and I are working on a hard puzzle and Joshua is working through the stash of puzzles.

In the afternoon we went to visit Grandma Hilldore.  The boys had brought along some things to do, so they made good things to talk about.

Sunday: Father's Day

 Happy Father's Day!

Joshua has been working really hard on creating a game that he's wanted us to play.  The rules were pretty good, but the balancing was not.  The bad guys hit for about 40% of the health each time and the good guys hit for about 10%.  It did make the game go pretty quickly though.

Tornado enjoyed some cuddles after church.

Saturday: Grandpa Spaulding

Grandpa Spaulding passed away in the middle of the COVID season, so the memorial was put on hold for a bit.  It was a lovely service pointing towards God. 

The pastor talked about his Bible, looking through it to find passages that were bracketed.  I realized that while I do have a Bible that has notes and highlights, I haven't used it in a while as I've switched to a Bible on my phone.  So, obviously, the next best thing would be to tell you the verses that have been important to me here.  I'll do that in a future post. [pause.] I just added it to my to-do list, so it won't be forgotten as easily.

The boys did an amazing job.  They knew Grandpa Spaulding, but not all that well.  They stayed calm until the service ended, at which point they went exploring with some cousins.

Speaking of not doing an amazing job though, I completely missed the boat on dress clothes.  We've had assorted hand-me-downs or actually gotten a polo or something for years.  For church I've only required the boys to wear shirts without pictures on them.  Well, they grew and we didn't go to church this past year so it was a bit of a scramble to find appropriate clothes.  Joshua ended up in a nice T-shirt.  Isaac ended up in a button down long sleeve shirt that was way, way too short on the arms.  So we cuffed them and said that was the style.  It worked.  But barely.  I also forgot to change my shoes on the way out the door.

Fry Friday

 We started with a Story Walk, but there was a playground there too!  Joshua: 6, Isaac: 5, Amanda: 3.5 for a total of 14.5/25.  It was a good playground, but was rather small and we don't expect a second time would be nearly as exciting.

Then we started the story walk.  We all took turns reading the page.  It was a bit short for me, but it was a fun way to engage the kids.  We walked for a bit on other trails afterwards, but it was rather buggy.

Isaac really wanted to make some fries.  They actually turned out really good...and the boys both like them.  So it'll need to come into rotation a bit more since it's a vegetable.

Two of the three radishes were ready to be picked.  The third one had more leaves, but wasn't radish shaped...so I put it back in the ground and we'll see what happens.

Thirsty Thursday

Today was Thirsty Thursday.  As part of our errands we stopped at a convenience store for some different drinks.

 

One of the children separately told Ben and me that the kids couldn't have any alcohol even though it was Thirsty Thursday.  I took it as "permission" to open a bottle of mead.