Sunday: still sick

Joshua is still sick.  He doesn't like taking medicine, which is a bit of a problem.

After lunch is usually screen time.  Joshua didn't take the medicine I had given him at the beginning of lunch.  His fever wasn't really high enough to require it (100.4), but high enough that it would help him feel better.  Anyway, Joshua really didn't want to skip screen time, even if we told him he could do it after a nap.  His eyes were closing as he refused.  So we elected to all wait for screen time until after the nap and he proceeded to fall asleep a minute later right where he was sitting.

He finally took some medicine after his nap, but it still took him a while to perk up.

In other news, the theme of the weekend of Lego puzzles.

Saturday: unexpected

The day started out mostly normally.  Joshua made a cat out of Legos that we named Storm.  We relaxed, finished up last weekend's game, and worked on some Lego sets.  

However, Joshua started acting a little funny during the game and slowly declined.  By 4pm he had a fever and was "finally" as sick as he had been acting.

However, it meant that we had to postpone graham cracker houses until next weekend.

Friday: blood drive

 I donated blood today.  I drank my water and took my iron.  I got to the beds and the nurse was deciding which arm to draw from.  I mentioned I have small veins and got the same "drink a lot of water" speech I get every time and almost decided not to come back.  But then it was the smoothest donation I've had in a really long time.  Getting the donation started went really smoothly and the blood came out really quickly.

Thursday: went better

Today seemed to go better for everyone.

I had my second PT appointment today and she keeps finding things that are slightly wrong.  Nothing major, but apparently I'm using all my back muscles incorrectly.  And I forget to breathe, which means I'm using my abs wrong.  I forget to breathe a lot.

Fast forward to karate, which ended up being a core workout day.  I thought about my PT person a lot as I tried to remember to breathe the whole class.  I have no idea if I did anything correctly, but I did breathe.

Wednesday: could have gone better

Today wasn't necessarily a bad day, but I do feel like it could have gone better.

*I was going to cook a turkey today.  I got it on sale at Thanksgiving, gave it four days to thaw (per the calculator), and was ready to try.  It wasn't thawed.  I wrapped it in a cooking bag and put it back in the fridge.

*I had a bit of a hard time with the children this afternoon.  They weren't being purposefully hard, but I felt like I was placating or talking them through things significantly more than normal.

Tuesday: book

Last night I finished Patrick Stewart's "Making it So."  I'm going to be honest, in my mind I was expecting a book about the life of Jean-Luc Picard.  I had a really hard time with a normal person being the character I've come to know.  Usually I feel like I can separate them better, but this combination just stays together.

The book was ok.  Interesting and not too slow, but also not the memoir of a starship captain.

Monday: around the house

I felt like I got quite a few items checked off my list today, and it was nice.  I had a hard time waking up from my nap, but I also had a hard time getting to sleep last night.

Isaac got 7/14 place in the rock climbing competition.

Yeah.  It was a very normal day.

Oh!  Let's talk about the wheelbarrow.  The neighbors across the street have a wheelbarrow full of stuff sitting in their back yard from when they redid the deck this summer.  I feel comradery with them whenever I see it because I too have things that should be taken car of but aren't.