Tuesday: morning surprise

When I woke up this morning, I found that the boys had cleaned off the table.  It was a part I told them they didn't have to clean up because they were still working on a project, but apparently they decided that they were done with the project and just cleaned it up.

I reciprocated their kindness by not making them clean as long for their evening chores.

Monday: photos of nothing

Over the summer Isaac colored water, froze it, and then froze it in bigger chunks.  It was getting in the way in the freezer, so I melted it today.

The tooth fairy keeps forgetting to give Joshua money for his tooth, so he finally left a note to remind me to tell the tooth fairy.

It poured around noon!  We've really needed the rain, so that was good.  It was a lovely sound.

I found Tornado camouflaged as laundry.

I was looking through my old blog pictures for my new digital picture frame, and there are a lot of Flurry.  It's a good thing the kids aren't around as much so that I get more pictures of Tornado and Horizon.

Sunday: imagination

 The boys played their imagination game...most of the day today.  Here is Isaac telling a little bit about the different things in it.

Saturday: happy

At naptime I was startled awake because in my dream I was too happy.  I've been often scared awake, and periodically sad/mad awake, but never awakened because of happiness.

In my dream I was having a dream and I was talking to an angel (who looked a lot like a normal business man).  He was talking about the amazing party that happens when you get to heaven and how happy God is to see you and I couldn't stay asleep I was so happy.

In other news, Joshua finally lost the tooth that's been bothering him.  That was happy too.  He's pretty cute.

In sad news, Isaac got completely squished by pillows.

Friday: around the house

I continued O:CtH today.  I finished decluttering the white bookshelf and most of the piano.  Part of this involved putting all the lost game pieces back in their boxes.  There was really only one game piece that was critically missing and that was found.  (Usually what happens is we find the piece but are too lazy to deal with it so it goes in a pile.  Next time the game comes out, we just get it from the pile.  The pile is actually mostly made up of instructions.)  So all that is left with this room now is actually making the bed, dusting the piano and the shelves, quickly finishing up the piano, and the game closet.  The game closet is going to take a bit of work because I really need to add some more shelves.  But the end is in sight!

I also froze some raspberries.  I labeled them "frozen raspberries" as though my future self wouldn't realize they're frozen as I find them in the freezer. :p

Thursday: opposites

This afternoon I had a few sets of opposites.

I was giving a quiz to a person who gets extended time, but she finished much earlier than expected.  I was able to get a last minute ortho appointment to reglue my retainer.  The whole process took about three minutes, so I went back to work for 20 minutes.  It was close to work, so I was very glad that I didn't have to make the trip on Monday just for three minutes.

But then...I was on my way to pick the boys up from school and ran into two trains.  TWO.  I'm not sure I've ever had such bad luck.  The second one wasn't moving (although honestly, I couldn't really see it), but I ended up having to find an alternate route.  It was so slow.

At home, I received my new phone!  It doesn't feel like that long since I've gotten my old phone, but apparently it has been.  It does have some issues and apparently it needs to be replaced because they're going to stop the updates too.  Anyway, I transferred all the stuff from the old phone to the new phone, marveling at how wonderful it is to be able to do that.  (There have been a few phone changes where it wasn't possible, and that was so sad.)

But at the same time, there are still some passwords and accounts that need to be logged into.  That is annoying.  It seems like it should just be able to work.

Wednesday: not much done

It didn't feel like I got a lot done today.  I'm not sure that's actually true; it's just how it felt.

I mean, I cleaned the kitchen (twice!), got groceries, put the groceries away (not a given), made dinner, did some school work, and assorted miscellaneous things in between.

O:CtH didn't get a lot of love today, but between Monday and today I did go through two of the cubby drawers.  I'm putting the stuff I don't think we need in a small box and letting the kids each pick out about three things they really want to keep when the box is full.  I also have a box with things that I want to keep, but that the kids don't really play with anymore.  I'll just put those in the basement for...whenever I'm ready to get rid of them.  I'm just not at that point yet.

Tornado did a wonderful job of snuggling with me during nap time.