Monday: O:CtH - filing cabinet

Today I finished the filing cabinet!

I know, it really isn't that big of a deal.  But I bet I got rid of at least two feet worth of paperwork.  I sorted paperwork.  Everything is now in its correct place.

The top drawer now* looks like this.  It was so stuffed that you could barely get anything in it.

I recycled a lot of statements, bills, and other non-important items from years 1998-2012.  It was actually a little sad.  We've gone through several credit cards and banks that I had completely forgotten about.  I had forgotten that we got postcard bills from Hanbury Sanitation in NY.  

I did figure out where I got my filing system from though, as the file folders Mom made for me looked quite similar to my current ones.  She even stapled like-documents together for easy recycling.

Next I think I'll clean under my desk because there's a bit more sorting of stuff that needs to be done.  Then maybe start at the top and slowly work downwards?  Stay tuned...it won't be that exciting.

*I did add some folders to it that really belong in the top drawer but had been moved down to drawer two for space reasons.  So it doesn't look quite that empty any more.

Saturday and Sunday: normal

It was a pretty normal weekend for us.  We did a bunch of Legos.  We played a few games.  Tornado won the Olympics.  Same ol' same ol'.

Friday: no school

The boys had the day off of school today.

We started the day by watching the Wizard of Oz (while taking apart Lego sets).  We recently read the book, so I thought it would be a fun activity to see how the movie is different.  They mentioned several things during the movie, but then they mentioned things throughout the day too.  So it was interesting to see how they were thinking about it.  Isaac said he liked the book better.  Joshua wasn't really sure; I think we wanted to like the movie better, but the book had some things he liked too.

Then Joshua had made a festival out of Lego.  It's the same fishing over the banister and ring toss that we did not that long ago, although the drinks and fishing poles were made out of Lego.  I thought I was going to have to be the fish, but instead I got to fish and do the ring toss!  He even used candy from his treat box so I didn't need to supply that either.  It was pretty fun, and he seemed quite proud of himself to help me have fun instead of work.

After rest time we quickly went to the library and then to a playground.  Isaac tried to climb on top of everything!  We left just before it started raining...about two hours earlier than expected.

Lastly, Joshua finally lost his other front tooth!  He's at the extra cute tooth spot right now.

Thursday: flower

One flower was still blooming.  Aunt C trimmed down the rest of the flowers for us, but kindly left that one.

Wednesday: chores

Today a lot of things were finished.  Someone came to fix the toilet.  We finished changing over our insurance.  I did several small chores.

It meant I had a bit of time to work on O:CtH.  Unfortunately, I just continued to work on the top drawer of the filing cabinet.  I sorted a lot of old insurance paperwork.  I also found a savings bond that had matured, so I cashed that today.

We got Joshua a TV tray so that he can eat on a couch instead of on the floor.  He's old enough and was having a hard time eating over his old tray.  I think it'll mean we need to change the furniture around, but I'm not sure what the best way is yet.  For dinner I made the annual fall meal of ham and squash.  However, I decided to air fry squash cubes instead of cook and mash it.  It was an excellent choice!  They almost tasted like sweet potato fries.  (Joshua, of course, barely ate them.  Everyone else enjoyed them though.)

Tuesday: Joshua

 This morning Joshua had a minor meltdown because his legs weren't working.  It was a bit surprising...in the past this has only happened at night and it hasn't happened for a while due to changes with how we run stuff at night.  Anyway, I  told him to make sure his Mickey Mouse mask was all the way in his pocket and he scowled at me.  Thirty minutes later I got a message from his teacher wondering if it had fallen out in the car because Joshua didn't have it and was worried about it.  (It was in the car.)  Silly boy, he should have listened to me.

He also wrote this for writing: "That is a weird pumpkin totally weird so so so weird."  At least he didn't lack for words.

I also got the picture from a few weeks ago when Isaac and Joshua found each other on the playground.

Monday: O:CtH

I put the boats in the garage today.  I had been planning on cleaning the garage at the same time, but let's be honest...cleaning the garage just doesn't sound like fun.

I worked on the office instead.  At one point it almost looked like it was starting to get clean.  I had cleaned a few things off the floor and filed ...er, stuffed...things in the filing cabinet that needed to be filed.  Then I decided it was time to deal with the filing cabinet.  I used to do it on a yearly basis, but it's been about four since I've cleaned it out.  I know that a lot of it is just moving paper from one place to another to store for seven years until I officially don't need (most) of it any more, but it still makes everything more organized.  Anyway, I'm still mostly at the beginning of that process and so there are a ton of papers back on the floor.