Tuesday: maskless

Today was the first time we were allowed to go without masks at Hope in two years!  

For the record, I've been on-board with all the masking decisions.  They seem to make appropriate decisions at the right time.  I'm sure not everyone agrees with that assessment, but I've been happy.  There's also been some autonomy within classrooms.  I could have required N95/K95/surgical masks at the peak or even now could require students to continue masking.

Anyway, I'm going to have to relearn everyone's name because they all look different now.  The good thing is that they all sit in the same seats, so I can go by that instead.

Monday: O:CtH - quilting area

Today I started cleaning the quilting area.  I didn't spend a lot of time on it, trying to get some of the big and obvious things, but it does already feel a bit better.  There was still some trash from when we got the new freezer last summer, so that's all been taken care of now.

I got a bunch of other stuff done on the to-do list too.  It was a pretty productive day.

Sunday: morning

The boys woke up over an hour before they were supposed to.  This meant that our fan wasn't on and I could hear them and woke up.  I rested a bit after that, but never got back to sleep.  We had a good morning, but it started so much earlier than I was hoping.

Saturday: pictures

The cats were cute today.

I took Isaac's quilt picture and couldn't bear to move Horizon.

Isaac then decided he needed to take quilt pictures of me.

Isaac was helping me find some blue LEGO pieces and noticed there were lots of blue chairs.  We've been watching Phineas and Ferb, so he proceeded to make a blue-chair-inator.  If the item is a chair, it turns it blue.  If the item is blue, it turns it into a chair.

This afternoon we hit an amazing 65F!  There was still ice on the pond, so the boys crushed some of it.  Snack time was also outside.  Tonight it's supposed to cool back off though.

Friday: blood

 I tried giving blood again today and my iron was still too low. :(  I'll try again in a month and add an iron supplement in the meantime.

Wednesday: minifig me

I made a minifig of myself today, looking all professional and stuff.

Tuesday: grocery adventures

I didn't have many groceries to get this week, so I thought I'd do it after work instead of tomorrow morning.  I'll probably really appreciate it tomorrow, but doing it today was just a tad annoying...I didn't get my nap.

Frozen cubed potatoes are still not on the shelves.  Neither are orange cinnamon rolls, although those don't surprise me quite as much.

I also stopped wearing my mask again!  The CDC risk level for the county suddenly dropped from high to low, so I don't feel the need to wear it (for now.)  I've been expecting the level to drop, although I wasn't expecting it to drop so suddenly.  I think there was a backlog of positive tests that just dropped off the 7-day average which in turn dropped the 7-day average.  It was nice to not wear it to karate too.