Tuesday: office

We finished cleaning out the office for painting.  Some of it I just threw in boxes to deal with later, but some of it I went through more closely as part of O:CtH.  I got rid of a surprising amount of nursery schedules...dating back to 2012.  Ben has a surprising amount of empty phone boxes.

Here's a close up of the wall paper.  I wonder if it started as a white, textured wall paper and they colored it some way.

Anyway, it's all gone now!  The desks were rather easy to move too, especially since we had removed everything from them.  It was easy for two of us to do it.  The kids were excited to go down and see the progress after school.

Horizon was quite sure that he wanted to sit in my lap tonight.  Usually he goes to Ben, but Ben is sitting in a temporary place too and it might not be as comfortable.  I even moved quite a bit and Horizon just stayed on the red blanket.

Monday: painting prep

I started moving everything out of the office today because we're getting it painted tomorrow.  While I like the purple, the blue wall paper looks like someone just did a poor paint job.  We're also going with a light grey to lighten up the room a little bit.  It won't be as colorful as any of the other rooms in the house, but I think the end result will be nice.

I'm a little worried about moving the desks, but we'll see what happens tomorrow.  Worse case we can take them apart a little bit.

Sunday: vaccinated & Nutcracker

 The boys are fully vaccinated today!  We celebrated with cinnamon rolls.

Isaac and I went with some family to see the Nutcracker Ballet.  I've never seen a ballet before, and it's been years since I've seen the Nutcracker play.  We both enjoyed it, although the first part was more enjoyable because it had more of a storyline.

Saturday: a good day

Isaac finally finished this year's advent calendar...we're going to go past Christmas.  He made some nice insides for each square.

Joshua made a cup game for some Pokemon that he had made.  What he didn't realize is that all the cups were different, so it was especially easy to find the Pokemon that I wanted.

While we were making lunch Isaac pointed a rubber band gun at Joshua...
Isaac: Surrender!

Joshua: Why?

Joshua: Ouch!
Isaac insists that the rubber band didn't hit Joshua, but everyone was laughing at the whole exchange so it didn't really matter.

Friday: video call

 As we do many Fridays, we played Kodenames with some friends this evening.

Then we watched an airplane tracker for way too long.  It was a bit interesting, but really mainly due to the comments as we all watched it together.   (In other news, it was tracked by 264 people at the end...it was #1!)

Thursday: Grocery surprises

Dad sent me a text this morning that said there was a present in my mailbox.  It's nice working in the same building as him because it's easy to get things...a birthday card for Ben, some Halloween candy for the kids, etc.

So I went up right before classes and found some bouillon for me.  I laughed.  It was a weird and unexpected but thoughtful present. :)

Wednesday: grocery adventures

I asked the kids if there was anything they needed from the grocery store today.  Lemon yogurt and potato chips was Joshua's response.  Potato chips?  He proceeded to tell me that he just prayed that I would get potato chips at the store, so how could I not?  I did compromise and get the baked kind though; we'll see if he likes them.

In other grocery news, there's still no chicken bouillon.  I didn't get it last week because there were no cubes, and this week the granules were gone too.  There looked like there was still some fancy bouillon, but I just wanted the boring stuff.  I'll probably regret not getting the fancy stuff next week when that is gone too.  Spicy peanut butter cracker packs are still gone, canned lemonade is still gone, and I don't know to where they moved the canned pineapple juice (assuming they still have it).  I finally decided to get a different laundry detergent than the one I wanted, but I don't care about that too much.

It snowed today!  The birds came to the feeders for the first time; Tornado enjoyed watching them.

Tornado also climbed all over me while I was doing some work at the computer.  He rested here but never really settled that much.

O:CtH is still in progress.  Today I cleaned out a few drawers.  Ok, ok.  Two half drawers.  But I also dealt with some of the stuff that needed to moved somewhere else.