First off, the sound mufflers that we got Joshua seemed to work great. He came home saying they worked well and he was in a much better mood. The class might have been less loud too, but we'll take the win.
I thought I was reasonably close to being done with wrapping presents, only to find another stash. Oh well. What I have been doing is writing numbers on the To: part of the present instead of Isaac or Joshua's name. This is a throwback to when Mom would use a code. Or, one notable year, when she didn't put names on at all! We opened a present and figured out whose it was. Isaac has been most intrigued, trying to figure out a reasoning behind the numbers. (This is extra hard when he doesn't know which ones go to which person.)
Ahh... a day that felt back to normal. I worked down my to-do list and checked things off.
But let's start at the beginning. I woke up and the Christmas Ruiners had hidden a present and were around the Christmas tree listening to "Rockin' Round he Christmas Tree."
It was a whirlwind of a day, but lovely in the end.
The SMTWRFSs were in a line towards the Christmas tree. Since they weren't doing anything wrong (yet), I let them stay. The Christmas Ruiner below keeps having more babies, so tonight she's locked up in Joshua's lock box. But Joshua has the key, so I don't know if it'll work. Even more worrisome, the babies are starting to grow into kids.
Horizon was being cute.
This morning I went to help Cheryl clean her basement. My job was to move things from one place to another and it was a great way to get my exercise.
Then I had lunch with Betsy. I tried the special, gingerbread French toast. It was good but not great. Well, conversation was great. The food was good.
After a nap, Elizabeth came over and we worked on a puzzle. I was very social today!
During this whole time, it was snowing out. Not accumulating much, but it was windy. I saw so many emergency vehicles - almost one every time I went out. I didn't think the roads were too bad, but I do have winter tires on.
I found out that talking physics with Isaac and making dinner is not a good combination. I can't concentrate on both at the same time and messed everything up. I was able to salvage dinner, but Ben came home as I was trying to do so, asked if he could help, and I just said, "Hope". I meant to say something else less profound with more words, but there's already so much multi-tasking with dinner that nothing else came out.
The Christmas Ruiner babies showed back up. I tried to put them in to-be-sorted, but they came back with a sign that said I had to keep them.
We finally went to get our COVID boosters today. We were told that insurance denied the shot for the kids - apparently they're supposed to get them at the doctor's office. However, a few months ago we were told that the doctor's office wouldn't have the shot for the kids. So this sounds fun. Hopefully the doctor's office is stocking the kids' version now. I don't understand why this is a thing.
My upper arm is slightly sore but not too bad.
Grading is progressing well. Kitchen cleaning, on the other hand, is not.
Joshua's class has been doing a lot of measuring lately and his teacher has been sending a lot of pictures. It's been fun to see.
Dec 13 is Ear Day. What is Ear Day you ask? It's when the kids' ears are most delicious and so I try to eat them. I also make chocolate ears to eat since the kids don't let me eat theirs. How did this start? A year or two ago it came up as a silly conversation, and so now we have an ear day.
I haven't had a nap the last two days so both kids hoped that I got one today and Isaac even put Giraffe next to Grey Bear so I could nap with both. I did have a nap and it was a very good one.
We were working on a harder version of a boss tonight in WoW and the raid leader said, "If we all just stay alive, we've got this." Yeah. I mean, he's not wrong.
