Thursday: good job

I got a "good job" in karate tonight and I was rather proud of it.  We had just gone through a bunch of basic actions (front kick, front punch, etc) with "here is how you make it better" instructions.  Then we were running through one of our basic combos - high block, front punch, front kick, jump front kick - and I was trying hard to put some of the new technical instructions into practice.  And the instructor noticed and said "good job".

Wednesday: watermelons and Catan

 For the third year Isaac has tried to grow watermelons.  This was our best quantity year, although we still haven't mastered getting a watermelon larger than a baseball.

Surprising me, he ate some of them anyway.  Well, at least a scoop of them.

We also started a game of Catan last night and it was going very poorly for me.  We always tell the children to be good sports, but this game always seems to have one person that isn't enjoying themselves.  We finished it up tonight and it was memorable in two ways. 1) It is probably the shortest game of Catan I've ever played.  Ben had a strong start but so did Isaac, and Isaac continued to get good rolls the whole time.  2) It is probably the worst game I've ever had.  I was just starting to make progress tonight after nothing last night and the game was done.  I ended up with 3/10 points (and you start with two points!).  

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.