Thursday: Tulip Immersion

 We went to the Tulip Immersion this afternoon with Cheryl.  The boys enjoy it more if they can take pictures, so we all took a bunch of them.

Wednesday: nap & O:CtH & tulips

I'm sure you're all curious: who joined me for my nap today?

Only Giraffe.  I only get two naps with Grey Bear every week and used them up already.

I finally had some time to work on the kitchen again.  I worked on the cabinet under the sink.  I cleaned the garbage cans.  I cleaned a lot of yuck up so I guess it was important to do, but I'm glad it's almost done.  I just want to put a cabinet protector down because the bottom of the cabinet is in rough shape.

After rock climbing we went downtown for some treats and to see the tulips.  They were beautiful.

Monday: this and that

 I brought Ben to his doctor's appointment today.  Usually this appointment is crazy long because they're so slow.  I got at text after an hour and assumed that it meant he was about to go to the room for the shot.  But actually, he was already done!  It was rather impressive.

Grading is finished!  Tornado attempted to help for a bit.  I still need to put grades in, but that doesn't take that long.

Helping out at karate classes is finished!  We had to do 15 classes.  It ended on a slightly crazy note, but it's one more thing checked off.

Sunday: done

Today had its ups and downs.  I didn't sleep well last night.  Joshua had several "it was an accident" issues that weren't done on purpose, but were completely avoidable.  The kitchen didn't get cleaned.  I was a bit grumpy.

But there were good things too.  We played Dominion.  The weather was lovely.  I actually got some time in on the quilter.  (Karate practice has often taken over my normal quilting time and I often forget or am tired in the late evening.)

Saturday: flowers and rice krispies

This afternoon we planted some of the flowers.  The boys are always so excited about them...but don't want to get their hands dirty.  It's a hard balance.  I still have my flowers to plant, but I'll do that another day.

After that Joshua was insistent that we make special rice krispie treats.  This is not really what I wanted to do, but he didn't ask me. He wanted to put all sorts of stuff in them: chocolate chips, strawberries, graham crackers, pretty much anything he could think of.  We ended up with chocolate chips and smarties.  In a circle pan.  They tasted pretty good.

Friday: progress? take 2

Today was another day that I made progress, but it doesn't really feel like it.

I graded, but still have half the final exams to go.

I took a nap, but Tornado meowed a lot and woke me up.  

I had black belt boot camp.  We did self-defense the whole time.  I already get self-defense mixed up really easily, and so by the last part my brain felt like mush.  And my wrists are sore.  I guess we'll see how it goes tomorrow when I make a child do it with me.  I am a bit overwhelmed with the whole thing though, as we apparently have only one more practice before testing.  (Note: I've heard rumors that they'll be pushing back the testing, but thought they'd say something tonight if that was the case.  Since I didn't hear anything, I need to assume we're still going with the posted schedule.)

Thursday: progress?

 Today felt rather unproductive...at least with the metrics that are easy to measure.

I sorted last week's laundry so that the kids could easily find their clothes.  (They ended up putting them away as a chore too.)  I started the dishwasher.  I worked on my next black belt form.

Then I went into Hope to grade.  While I had hoping to knock out a whole bunch of exams, they went really slowly.  I'm not really sure why for most of them.  There were a few that were poorly done and so hard to grade and there was one that involved a quick trip to the computer lab.  Anyway, hopefully they get faster.

I had lunch with the department and did take a nap.  The nap went well.

We bought our summer flowers after school.  It was a fun time as always.  The boys got into it too.  We're going to try watermelons (again) and Joshua found his snap dragons.  Isaac also picked out a sunflower and Joshua picked out an orange flower.

I graded a few more exams and emptied the dishwasher before karate.  There was at least room on the counter to put the dinner dishes, but the process is rather backed up.