Saturday: travel

We flew to Orlando today.  As always, Ben makes traveling an adventure.

The first adventure was neat!  Larry was on our flight.

The second adventure was normal... The flight left about thirty minutes late.  Benand Joshua sat by Larry.

The third adventure was a new one!  We landed just as a lightning storm started.  We had dinner before looking for our bags.  When we finally got to baggage claim we learned that ground services was shut down.  We waited for an additional 1.5 hours as they slowly opened up.  We were the third flight to get our luggage out of about 10 in the queue.  We had small bags and so they came out quickly.  Ben had already gotten the car and so we zip zipped out of the airport.

We got to the hotel without too much effort and found our room.  It was huge!  There was an extra empty spot in the middle of the room.

Friday: last day of school

 2nd and 5th grade are in the books!

...but, for all the excitement of today Joshua had a rough afternoon.  He refuses to look at the (analog) clock to figure out if it is before or after 3pm, which is snack time.  Then he almost had a meltdown when a mess was made while he and Isaac were playing a game in the basement.  I absolutely said, "It's going to be a long summer." already.  Joshua did perk back up after dinner, so I think he was a bit hangry.

Thursday: almost done

School only has a half day left: 1 drop-off, 0 recesses, 0 more lunches to make, and 1 more pick up.  At one point I counted how many years I was going to need to deal with pick-ups, but then COVID hit and now I don't count things like that anymore.

Giraffe had an adventure today!  He was a Gir-inking Giraffe.  I crack myself up.  Good thing it's almost summer so they can stop having adventures.

Wednesday: Success!

O:CtH kitchen edition is a wrap!

I finished the last little bit today and dealt with the pile of stuff that was on the counter.  I know the puzzle is still there, but I need to start it after VBS and don't want to forget.

I'll also note that it took me so long that I probably need to start over at the beginning, but I'll just gloss over that.  It is also importation to remember to clean under things in the kitchen.  The bottoms of the cabinets and drawers were especially disgusting.  I absolutely could do a better job of keeping the drawers clean too, but if I think realistically I know that won't happen.

Next up is the little storage room off the office.  I'm going to see how summer goes though; I wouldn't be surprised if I do a minimal number of chores.  It can wait until fall.

In other news, the bears had a straw-bear-y adventure today.

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.