Saturday: Lego challenge

Today's Lego challenge theme was Minecraft, but the scale was rather large.

Ben worked on a spider.  It took him a little longer than the hour, and the finished product looks more complete.

I worked on a Creeper...and only managed to get the head done.

Isaac made a redstone piston that moved.

Joshua made a Drowned, or a water zombie.  To be fair, he had about an extra half hour because we were interrupted in the middle.  But it looks amazing.

Friday: waiting

On the days that I'm not working, I've been napping on the couch.  Creeper and Grey Bear are always waiting there for me, and I find it super sweet that Joshua puts them there for me.

 

In other news...I met someone at church today that took the class I'm teaching before I took it over.  Before I said that that was my class she said it was the most useful class that she had taken.  It was a fun connection.

We had a tune-up on the furnace today because there was an intermittent minor issue.  I pulled all the stuff away from the furnace so the technician would have room to work, but now I need to unclean the area and put it all back.  It was a weird item to put on my to-do list.  The kids tried telling me that I should properly clean it, but I told them that would take too long and I'm not on O:CtH - storage room yet.

Thursday: band concert

Tonight was Isaac's band concert.  They worked really hard on it.  Isaac had two pieces and played set for both of them.

Joshua gave a speech on his favorite snack, Cheetos, during school.

Wednesday: groceries

Do you know what I hate about groceries?  After getting groceries I make food and inevitably find something to add to the grocery list.  I know it's the normal cycle of things, but at the same time I get frustratingly annoyed when I have to add groceries after just getting groceries.

Tuesday: rock climbing

After school we went rock climbing, as normal.  What was not as normal is that one of Isaac's team members climbed at the same time.  I won't say that we went together, but at the same time he came because he knew Isaac would be there at that time.  There were also a bunch of new routes and Isaac had a great time.

Joshua had a good time too, as the kids' wall had new routes and his favorite coach was there.  He was ready to go at the end, but we did stay longer than normal too.

Monday: cleaning

Today was a pretty productive day - although it didn't feel overly productive.  So I was a bit surprised when Isaac came upstairs and mentioned that I had gotten a lot down today!  Apparently there were a lot of visible things finished today.

I did find a part of a game that has been missing for a while!  The game hasn't been unplayable, but with the missing part it will be a lot easier.  Operation: Clean the House proves useful again.  The basement bathroom is getting closer to finished - I just have a little bit to do a normal clean on, some hardware to fix, and some paint to touch up.

Saturday: graham cracker creations

 Today we made our equivalent of gingerbread houses.  I know that's sort of a Christmas thing, but there's already so many sweets at Christmas and not enough time, so we do ours a little later.  Instead of all making houses though, we made assorted things.

Joshua did make a house, but it's a cool triangle house.

Isaac made trees for Giraffe.  That being said, the trees are basically storage areas for candy.  He put a bunch of candy in and then covered them up.

Ben made a cave for Grey Bear.  Note the sign.  

And I made an explosion for Creeper.  It's kind of supposed to be like this meme.