Thursday: exams

Today I had two exams, back to back.  It wasn't quite as bad (i.e., boring) as I expected, but it wasn't really all that much fun either.  I was able to get a lot of grading done today though, both before and during the exams, but there's still more to do.

It makes for a tiring day.

On the upside, I realized that Hope doesn't start classes until the 10th.  The boys start on the 3rd, so I feel like I get an extra, unexpected week!

Wednesday: grocery adventures, again

Today's grocery adventures.

1. There was still no chicken bouillon cubes or granules, but there was a powder.  I probably would have grabbed it had I still needed some.

2. There were no soft pretzel bites this week.  I picked some up about two months ago thinking they were a one-time thing that would be at the store, but then they remained out every week.  I'm hoping they come back, but I'm not all that optimistic.

3. I saw more people with masks on at the store.  We still still a definite minority, but at least it was only uncommon instead of non-existent.

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!)