Tuesday: cheese, nice!

Last night Isaac (and I) were working on his last page of math.  All the pages are self-checking: there is a riddle and by solving the math problems correctly you get the answer.  The question was "What did one cow say about the other cow?"

There were a few math issues to fix, but those were taken care of easily because the answer wasn't in the answer bank.  We still ended up with CHSNIC.  Well, that seems wrong.  After a bit more searching we found that Isaac had removed all the Es when he shouldn't have, so we ended up with Cheese, nice.  Hmm.  Well, those are two actually words.  Cheese comes from milk comes from cows.  Maybe it's right.  Isaac elected to just turn it in instead of asking Ben.

Isaac got all the points on the homework, so apparently "Cheese, nice" was correct.  We joked about it a few times and then were telling it to Ben after dinner.  

Ben,  immediately: Did you say, 'she's nice'?

Amanda: no, 'cheese, nice'

Ben: right, "She's nice"

Isaac and Amanda, minds blown: OOOH!

We should have talked to Ben, although now we have a joke.

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Our painter, Rene, is doing our deck soon.  He texted me today to say that he'd be power washing today.  I responded, no problem.  A bit later I get an apology from him: 

"Please forgive me Amanda I forgot to mention that my son is power washing right now so you see somebody out there that's not me it's my son thank you"

I snarkily responded: "I'll admit, since people so rarely just come to power wash my deck I would have assumed the person was sent by you. :). But thanks for the heads up."

He laughed at that.

Tuesday: waste

One of my chores today was to deal with the seaweed that has washed up on the edge of the lake.  This happens occasionally, especially right after they've sprayed.  I usually have about a bucket's worth, maybe two if it's really bad.

This time I had about seven buckets.  And a neighbor had pulled it out of the lake to dry, so I did two additional buckets for them.  The neighbor said there had been something weird about the lake, that there was a film on it.  Whatever happened, it was a little absurd.

Aunt C was here at the same time so I grabbed her clippings and then said

A: I'm going back inside but I'll leave the lard wa...  nope, that's wrong.

A:  the yawn wa...nope, still wrong the other way.

C: haha

A: the yard waste out.  Phew.  I talked correctly.

weekend: ups, downs, and little stuff

The snap dragons are flourishing.  They weren't doing so well most of the summer, and then suddenly they're thriving.  

Saturday was a bit busy.  Joshua had a birthday party and then we went straight to another get to together with friends.  Both were fun, but it made for a bit of a long day.

Sunday was a long day because it went somewhat poorly.  Joshua was "so tired" during church, but of course wasn't tired before or after.  Isaac had forgotten that he needed to do some math until Sunday afternoon and of course it is taking longer than hoped.  It isn't due until Tuesday so he still has some time, but ideally he would have started sooner over the weekend.  Joshua wasn't holding a glass of lemonade straight up and down in Ben's car and he got mad when I called him out on it.  Joshua recovered after dinner.  I don't bounce back as quickly.

(It does remind me a lot of when Dad would tell me to watch were I was going and I would say, "I am!"  In hindsight, he was probably correct.)

Friday: school pictures

 I spent some time today ordering new photos for the picture wall.  I had too many good ones, and so I just ordered some extras.  Once they get here I'll decide if they're really good enough for the wall or if they should just go in the book.

Thursday: little stuff

Well, I'm sure you're wondering what I ended up doing about the groceries.  I ended up ordering them first thing in the morning (before I brought the kids to school and right after I had finished prepping for my first class).  I picked them up after karate.  I put the cold stuff away but the rest of them are still in the car for the night.

I also used my new water bottle today.  It is a spout top instead of a straw.  This was nice because it didn't squeak.  And it was correctly insulated so the hot water stayed hot.

Wednesday: food

I'm not sure when I'm going to get groceries this week.  I probably should have dealt with it earlier, but here I am.  I've been ordering them lately, especially while I'm in between house cleaners, but I still haven't figured out when to do it this week.  I could get them after picking up the kids tomorrow, but then I'd have to order them soon and I don't want to order them tonight.  I could pick them up after karate, but then I have the same ordering problem.  I could get them Friday, but would prefer to get them before picking up the kids after school and that's the first thing on my calendar.

Oh, such problems I have.

Monday: life

Today was a slightly odd day.  Joshua came home from school.  He's had a pretty bad cough and was laying on the couch when I came out this morning, so I picked him up.  He probably could have stayed, but at the same time the kids try really hard to push through on days I'm working so I give them one or two days per school year that are on the edge.

Joshua took the cold and cough medicine and proceeded to throw it up.  Like normal.  We went out to get some of the orange cough syrup and he held that down better.  I did make the day pretty boring though.

I finished putting shelves up in the storage room.  I've started moving stuff around and you can actually walk in the room now.  Next I get to keep decluttering and putting stuff back in, both of which I'm excited about.

This afternoon I had a massage as part of a "black belt congratulations" from Ben.  It was lovely.

At karate Mr. Galli was explaining how, when preforming a low block, both arms should move with the same power.  The next time we were supposed to do a low block I was super slow.  I feel like I was thinking about something else and my movements were a bit off.  He commented that I did use the same amount of power with both arms and we laughed about it.