Tuesday: O:CtH - kitchen

 I finished more of the kitchen today!

I started with the cabinet above the microwave.  I threw out a ton of plasticware and straws.

Next I cleaned the drawer with the kids' plastic dishes.  I got rid of several things from here too, and arranged it so everything actually fits...and should easily fit with limited upkeep.

I finished the towel drawer too.  There was a surprising amount of random stuff in the drawer that has now been placed in (hopefully) better locations.

So there's only one spot left!  It does have a pile of random stuff to deal with though, so I'm not looking forward to it.

Monday: O:CtH

My goal was (and possibly still is) to finish cleaning the kitchen before the end of school: 3.5 more days.  I'm not sure I'm going to make it as a few other things need to take priority near the end of the week.

I did work on it some today and got through several locations.  I really thought that I had cleaned under the oven recently but that was obviously not the case.  It did make for gratifying cleaning though!  I still have four more spots: a cabinet, two drawers, and part of a counter to finish before I can call it done.

Sunday: related to cats

I woke up to find Horizon on a quilt I was giving away today.  That wasn't were I wanted him to be.

It was Joshua's turn to choose the family activity, so he choose Lego challenge: "related to cats".

I made a cat toy.  I really tried to get it attached to a motor and spinning, but I just don't have enough experience with gears/technic to make it work correctly in the allotted time.  Tornado played with it for about thirty seconds.

Ben also made a toy.  It used a laser pointer on a double pendulum+.  The cats played with it for about thirty seconds.

Joshua made some scenes.  One is a cat bathroom with food, sinks, and a scratching post.  The other was a minecraft-like environment where all the different biomes were called cat related things.

And Isaac made a cat in a cat.

Saturday: a Saturday

'Twas a pretty normal Saturday.  We did go rock climbing this morning with one of Joshua's friends.  We did some housework, played some games, took a nap.  The kids laughed together a lot...it's my favorite sound.

Memorial Day Weekend

It's taken me a while to get this posted, but I did want to briefly remember the weekend.

The weather was lovely.  Cool, but not cold, in the mornings and it warmed up to a pleasant/hot temp in the afternoons.  The normal crew was all there, including several people that we only see on Memorial Day weekend.  Joshua's friend's family also joined us this year!  They weren't quite attached at the hip, but they did spend quite a bit of time together.

The kids did the fun run in the morning.

Sunday we normally play a family game and frisbee golf, but Ben wasn't feeling well at all.  He actually ended up going home Sunday afternoon.  He didn't want to, but he was dragging.  The kids didn't handle this as well as I was expecting, but they got over it with minimal tears.

Monday I finally got the camera out since I realized I hadn't taken any pictures yet.  We took a peaceful walk on the beach in the morning.

We took pictures on the rock, which is apparently a tradition.

I pushed them on the merry-go-round a little bit.  The merry-go-round would out of order last year and there was much discussion prior to the trip as to whether or not it would be back.  The boys spent hours on it.  Joshua's poor legs are all bruised from it too.

I made the kids help me more with packing up this year.  Last year I volunteered to do all of it, and that was a mistake.  It just takes a little bit too long.  This year the kids helped pack up our stuff within the camper.  Isaac put packed everything into the car.  (This was in part possible because we had put some stuff into Ben's car, so my car wasn't quite as full.)  Isaac also helped to wash down the floor as I was vacuuming.  I was so excited at the end; Isaac had been so helpful and it went so much faster this year.

Friday: Bears

 Yesterday Joshua found out that Snowfoot and Grey Bear were planning to go on an adventure today.  So when he got home from school, he found out that they grabbed a few other bears and had a bear-rel adventure!

(Root beer was in the little barrels.  These are not drunk bears.)

Thursday: the day

Today was mainly a normal day.  I biked to the library instead of driving.  I did two loads of laundry and finally got it all cleaned.  (It's always a project after camping.)  It isn't sorted, let alone put away, but it's at least clean.

Grey Bear was waiting for me for nap time.

Giraffe hung out in the giraffe holder during the day.  During screen time Tornado jumped up on Isaac's lap so I got a picture of all of them.

It's been a bit of a boring week, once we got home from camping, I'll admit.  Putting the desks together was fun, but there has just been a lot of normal/boring things filling the days too.