Monday: day off

The kids didn't have school today.  I forgot that fact several times, but managed to not send them to school this morning.  We went to the karate school this morning so the kids could play with the obstacle course.  They played with it for two hours, so it was a good morning activity.  I played with them a little bit and managed to pull a muscle in my neck.  It's already starting to get better.

Then we decided to get donuts.  I didn't want to go to Meijer because they don't have my favorite.  We went to one place and they were closed on Mondays.  We went to a second place and they were well picked over with just a few boring ones left.  We ended up making orange cinnamon rolls at home; they were delicious.

The rest of the day was pretty normal.  Screen time, rest time.  Last night I was reading to the kids and the story got pretty scary so we forwarded to the end of the chapter.  Today we backed up, read the scary part in the daylight, and then continued with the story a bit.

I got a few chores done throughout the day.  During laundry, Tornado 'hid' under the bed.  Horizon was nice to his brother and didn't pounce on his tail.

Thursday: pretty normal

 It was a rather normal day today.  I taught.  There was a lot of group work with pivot tables.  I very clearly stated something in a short lecture at the beginning, noting that students often forgot this thing.  Surprise surprise, several groups forgot it.  However, there were also several moments of "ah ha!" when they realized, so hopefully they'll remember in the future.

There was a short meeting after school for 6th grade camp.  I'm sure Isaac will have fun.  I'm glad to have a packing list.  It did make a busy day even busier though.  I know that's just how Tuesdays and Thursdays go, but ...they're still quite full.

Tuesday: pictures

We're doing the celery experiment with colored water.  I think it's going well, Joshua doesn't agree.  Color is coming through though.

We had to wait a bit for Isaac at Hope.  Joshua enjoys climbing all over the stuff.

 

We wore our special shirts today.

Monday: crackers

As I was making my grocery list today I saw the word crackers.  I paused, thinking, "do we need crackers?"  Then I realized that I remembered getting the crackers out for Joshua's lunch.  I remembered putting the crackers away for Joshua's lunch.  But I didn't remember actually putting crackers in Joshua's lunch.  Oh well, he'll survive.

Come to find out, I put two sets of carrots in Joshua's lunch instead of any crackers.  He was not thrilled, but ate an extra carrot at lunch anyway.  We were able to laugh about it quite a bit.

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Every night Joshua texts me good night.  He was into emojis, but then he found gifs.  I sent him two one night and he quickly stated that I should only send one.  The next night he sent three.  But they were all really cute.

Sunday: bike ride

 Giraffe got to go on a bike ride today.  Grey Bear was so sad not to go, but Joshua refused to bring him.

We went to Larry and Cheryl's for dinner.  Beforehand Larry brought out a toy from his childhood...a steam engine.  While still available, there's no way it'd be a kids toy anymore.  Anyway, it was pretty interesting to watch.

Friday: busy

 Today was a busy, but good, day.

I had my mom's group at church and I know the mentor mom a bit.  (The mentor mom is usually a woman who has older kids and leads the group.)

Then I went to donate blood.  Apparently there's a blood shortage and then for some reason there was extra waiting.  I don't know if they packed in extra appointments or if they were just slower today.  However, I was able to donate with only a very small hiccup, so I counted it a success.

I had lunch with Betsy!  It's been a while since I've seen her, so there was a lot of catching up to do.

I took a nap.  Unfortunately, I slept through a zoom meeting I had set up.  However, the person was nice about it and we set up another meeting for next week.  I just felt dumb, but it completely slipped my mind all day or I would have set my alarm earlier.

Isaac had an ...annoying...end of the day so we got some crumbl cookies.

Ben picked up the pizza!

It rained!

Ben and Isaac went to Magic so Joshua and I had our normal at home time.  We did some Legos and watched some shows.  I didn't eat any of my cookie though because my stomach is feeling a little off.  I'm also rather tired and might end up calling it a night early.  However, I washed the sheets today and only have the bed half remade.  Yuck.  I should have made this more of a priority.

Wednesday: book

 I found this sentence in my current book and it's been a while since I've read such an amazing paragraph.  Two friends are joking around about why one took so long to show up: if assassins attacked while they were eating. 

The book is Crystal Awakening by Andrew Rowe.