Friday: still grading

I had both my exams today.  The day didn't drag quite as much as I was expecting though, so that was pleasant.  I had two students show up late but not too late and since I knew a different class wasn't coming early for the next exam I still let them have the whole two hours.  Really, I could grade in the classroom or grade in my office, so it was easy enough to do.

During the second exam I got an email from Isaac's teacher that he wasn't feeling well.  There was no fever so he could stay at school, but was looking miserable.  Ben had meetings all day so I tried my other options first.  Aunt C was able to bring him home and he was just snuggled in bed when I got there.  I was rather proud of how he dealt with it, honestly.  It was a weird sickness...no fever, but he was acting like he should have had one.  He finally complained about a headache so I gave him medicine for that.  He perked up a bit after that, but was never 100% and wasn't hungry.

We called off our evening plans.  We didn't need to participate in them so it wasn't a big deal.  The boys played Zelda with Ben and I - you guessed it - graded.  I'm finished with the non-final exam stuff and 1/8 through the final exam.

Thursday: still grading

I did a little grading this morning, then a few things around the house that needed to be done.  I had lunch with co-workers and then was planning on getting a lot of grading done.  However, people actually came to my office hours for some help!  It doesn't happen very often, probably because there are student-run help sessions at better times, so I was oddly excited.  I didn't get the grading done that I was hoping to get done, but there's still plenty of time.

We went to rock climbing after school.  Isaac had a great time because there were a bunch of new routes, but Joshua had a hard time for some reason.  He was in a mood.  At the end he bought himself a cookie and it helped a lot.

Karate was fine.  We worked on forms for the first part, which I enjoy.  Then self-defense, which I don't enjoy.  I understand it's important, but I just don't enjoy it.  At the very end there were a few minutes of dodgeball and it seemed like none of the kids actually went out when they got hit.  It made me more annoyed than it probably should have.

It was pizza pick-up at work today too; they have fun signs.

Wednesday: yesterday

On the way home from piano, Isaac and I were discussing what to have for dinner.  It had to be a little easy because I had karate later that night.  He said fish sticks sounded good, but those don't work for the whole family.  Then I thought we could have scrambled eggs, because that's his skip meal and he could have the fish sticks.

But!  Only if we had at least five eggs.  I was pretty sure we had used at least six, but I wasn't sure if we had used six, seven, or more.

When we got home I sent Isaac to check.  A bit later, after he was taking way too long to find out, I looked.  We had four normal eggs and suddenly there was a purple egg too.

We had scrambled eggs for dinner.

Monday: stuff from school, cats

 Isaac brought this home from school and I couldn't love it more.  I should probably frame it.  Not only does it say nice stuff, he said that it was easy to write and fill up all the lines.  I know he often struggles with writing enough so this made me especially happy.

Joshua came home with this gem!  "I am thankful for my 2nd grad teacher 'cus she is the best teacher in the multi-verse."

I was trying to take a few pictures of a quilt, but right after I put it down Horizon got on it.

Of course, he sent a cat-gram to his brother so he would come up the stairs to investigate right at that moment.

I dumped Horizon in the bedroom just in time for Tornado to sit in the middle.

I dumped him in the bedroom too and finally got my pictures. It turned out pretty nicely...I had so many dumb problems with this one though!  It should have been done about three months ago but I kept having to make giant fixes.

The weekend

 Ben and Joshua finished their Bowser.  Joshua is bringing it to school for show and tell tomorrow and is so excited.

We got a big box (because it's that time of year) and so yesterday I had a pet box for most of the day.  The pet box produced an egg.  It all got to be a bit much for me, but at the same time I could mostly pet the box and give instructions to the kids as to my desires for the box and it would happen.

Friday: the normal

I wasn't planning on writing a post tonight.  But then I was looking through the old posts and realize how many little things I forget.  (I was mainly trying to figure out what little stories I need to tell Joshua about when he was younger, because he has been bringing up Isaac putting an apple on his head and forgetting about it.  I've decided on the wall, because I think I've mentioned it to him a few times.  He ended up being ok with his door open.)

Ok, so the little things.  I told the boys it was going to snow out today and Isaac elected to bring boots and Joshua didn't.  Isaac enjoyed first recess, but it got his hat all wet and so he didn't enjoy second recess as much.

I had lunch with Betsy, and we went to Buffalo Wild Wings.  I got the lemon pepper (sauce) boneless chicken and it was an excellent choice.  I also stopped at the library.  A few weeks ago Joshua told me he likes chapter books with colored pictures.  There aren't many of those, although graphic novels work too.  I remember going through this with Isaac a few years ago too, so I'm going to hope that Joshua's just in the same place.  And in the meantime the librarian and I will try to cater to his desires.

We had Jets for dinner.  I tried the text to order because I could get a 20% off coupon, but it really was terrible.  I copied and pasted our normal order from the website into the text and it missed a pizza topping and the breadsticks.  I rated it 4/10, just because of the coupon.

We played Quadropolis tonight.  Joshua managed to win.  The game he played seemed to be somewhat different than the game everyone else played.  His strategy was to remain as the mayor and get a lot of apartments and retail locations, but it worked.  I didn't think it would.

Thursday: o

For dinner we were having taquitos and potatoes, so I also made apple-os because it made me smile.

Today was the last day of classes.  I don't love final review day.  We reviewed as a class for a bit and then I had some review for them to work on on their own.  The students that should have stayed longer left right away* and the students that didn't really need to stay stayed.  The first class actually had a bunch of questions and the TA and I were busy for a lot of the time, and then in the second class everyone left 20 minutes before normal.

*The final exam isn't until next Friday though, so in some ways I get it...it might be more beneficial to study closer to the exam time.