Saturday: rock show

Isaac and I went to the local rock show today.  It was fun.  It's amazing how many colors and shapes rocks come in.  Isaac decided to buy a geode and have it cracked open in front of him.

We also had some friends over for games after dinner.  Isaac had a really bad first game but handled it ok.  He did well the second game.  Overall it was a fun time.

Friday: shelves and thieves

This morning I went for a walk with Cheryl.  The sun was surprisingly hot and there was a lot of wildlife movement because of that.

                              

Isaac helped me with the second shelf this afternoon.  I had marked the holes for drilling, so he did the drilling (the first time with the powered drill!), hammered in the anchors, and started putting the screws in.  I also suspended the shelf with rope, and that helped the whole process tremendously.

Last night Joshua came down because he had gotten scared of his audiobook.  This happens on a regular basis - the books at night need to have no scary elements.  This one surprised me a bit because he was about 95% done with the book, but it mentioned something about thieves trying to break in and that is definitely one of his scary topics.  So we talk a bit and then 

J: What are the different levels of thieves?

A: what?

J: the different levels.  Like robber, bandit, thief

...so then I try to explain the differences between them and that they aren't really different levels per se while trying to make it all really not scary.

Thursday: tired

The day was rather normal.  Classes went well.  Joshua's piano lesson got canceled, so the evening was less busy than expected.

I was so tired after I got home from dropping Isaac off for rock climbing.  Joshua kept talking to me and I kept trying to respond, but I'm not sure it worked all that well.

Yup.  That's about all for the day.

Wednesday: a shelf

Today was the first time in quite a while that I had nothing on the calendar.  So I started out the day finishing some chores, of course: clean the kitchen, finish Isaac's bike and clean up, clean the bathrooms, deal with some small items.

Then, instead of dealing with some of my list I continued working on O:CtH.  I put up a wire shelf.  It took a bit longer than I was hoping but not much longer than I was expecting.  I was going to take a picture but now I'm too lazy to go get one.  It looks nice.  I have two more to put up and I'm hoping to have the kids help at least a little bit.

Sometimes days are all about chores, so after nap time (with Grey Bear) I continued working on things on the list.  These items I wasn't really expecting to get to, so I'm feeling like the day was a success.  It's amazing how successful (or not) some days feel based on how much I finish.  It probably shouldn't be that way, but here I am.

Tuesday: the normal busy of a Tuesday

Tuesdays are pretty busy, but at the same time once I get home a little before dinner I'm home for the night and that's really nice.

Classes went fine.  I went for a walk at lunch time with a friend.  Isaac had PATH, and it seemed to go a bit better than last time.  Ben ended up picking up Joshua so I was able to take Isaac to rock climbing and let him stay a bit longer than normal.

There's a lot of things I want to do tomorrow (like normal), but I'm hoping that I can stop with those items mid-morning to work on O:CtH - small storage room.  

Monday: bike

We got Isaac a new bike that involved some putting together.  I worked on it on Friday, but couldn't get the brakes to be in the right place.  After fiddling with it for too long, I called Dad.

The underlying problem was that the wheel spokes were out of alignment.  So he used his fancy tool and got them straight again.  (This made me feel so much better by the way. This is a problem that I couldn't fix, no matter how hard I was going to try.)  He also noted that the instructions didn't match the bike and adjusted all the things that I had adjusted while trying to make it work.  So I had a lovely experience with a happy ending.

I paid him in with a cup of spice tea and we both continued our rainy day.  (It rained all day.  Sometimes hard, sometimes barely at all, but all day.)

Sunday: more or less fine

Today my cold was much better than yesterday, but I was still rather tired.  We took it pretty easy today.  We finished up the game Stuffed Fables, which is a campaign-like game that we've been working through for the last year or so.

Oh, I got some pictures of Joshua's micro desert town.  It's not finished yet, but at least it's something interesting to look at.