I started rock climbing with a membership today. I'm quite bad - there's a VB+ that I just couldn't finish. Isaac kept trying to help me with it but I kept forgetting it or running into other problems. Luckily, it'll be there for the next few times and I can try it again. (I can usually get the V0s though, so I think this one is an especially hard one for me. It's in a rainbow shape and I have a really hard time going back down.)
Joshua and I joined some friends at his school for math night. It was a lot more fun than I was expecting: the hour and a half went by very quickly. (His friend had several good pictures, but this was the only one Joshua decided to smile for.)
Ben captured a good picture of Horizon yesterday in a cave Joshua had made.
Today was a pretty normal day - I knocked out a lot of little things on the to do list, but not quite as many as I was hoping. Part of that is that Isaac offered to work on the puzzle together instead of screen time, and there was no way I was going to turn that offer down. Joshua joined us when his screen time was done.
I had a lovely Mother's Day today. Joshua hung up some cute hearts. They gave me a puzzle, chocolate, and a small Lego set. Isaac made a scavenger hunt. We played Space Base.
We went to brunch with Ben's family, and it was delicious. It was also nice to see them again; it's been a bit. We took pictures afterwards and I included all the ones of our family. The boys were trying to hard to smile nicely, but they're vampires and can't keep their eyes open and smile. Some of the results are pretty silly.
Joshua suggested we do puzzles together this afternoon, and it was perfect. I had recently been thinking it was about time for a puzzle! We also finished our movie and played some Poyo-poyo-tetris.
While it's been a great week full of seeing people and doing things, I was also exceptionally glad to have nothing on the calendar today. As normal, I got my chores started. I worked on putting away laundry for 30 minutes, only to still have the non-bedroom stuff to still put away. (To be fair, I didn't put away any laundry last week so there was more than normal.) I decided to take a nap instead. Sure, it was a morning nap. But things were just not quite working.
Luckily, all my friends were waiting for nap time.
I rested and slept for a bit and eventually got up to finish the laundry. I was pleasantly surprised to get a lot of work done after lunch, so the morning nap had been a good idea. I got through my whole "must do" list and was able to work on 'Operation: Clean the House - master bedroom edition' for a while.
I had gotten a thin crust frozen pizza on accident at the store. I know several other people in the family like thin crust but they're not my favorite so I was a little disappointed. I was also hungry later in the evening.
Today was the big day! The weather had been looking cold and rainy earlier in the week, but it was getting slightly warmer and less rainy as the week went on. By this morning it was 62deg and 40% rain. However, two hours later it was 61deg and 100% rain for the whole time. Needless to say, it changed several of my plans.
My plan ended up working quite well. I picked up Isaac and we quickly ate lunch at home. I dropped Isaac off at Hope College, putting him in my office, while I parked the car closer to the end of the parade. The parade isn't really all that long, about 1.5 miles, but I expected Isaac would be rather tired at the end and didn't want to make him walk a loop.
The rain was drizzly at this point and it continued this way through the rest of the afternoon. However, it wasn't windy so my umbrella worked well.
I dropped Isaac off and he exchanged the umbrella for a poncho. I then walked down the parade route a bit and found a place to sit. It was rather nice to be by myself. It made it easy to navigate and I didn't need to watch kids and make sure they weren't bored or wet. I saw a ton of people that I knew, although I didn't say hi to all of them since some were far away. (I also saw one friend three times! One while they were heading to street scrubbing, one during scrubbing, and one while they were coming back.) If I get to do it this way again next year I might consider doing the street sweeping. (Joshua had a full day of school since I didn't take him out for the parade. They watched a movie and I think it was the best choice for everyone.)
Isaac is the bass drum on the inside...so two people in from the edge.
After they went by my spot I got to walk the rest of the parade on the sidewalk with them. Usually this went fine, but there was one place that I went in front instead of behind and ended up walking in front of a few people. It wasn't obvious were I was supposed to go though! Luckily, a lot of it was empty chairs.
Afterwards we went back to the ice cream sandwich wagon from yesterday and both got ice cream. Isaac was pretty cold by this point...the poncho kept him warm enough during the parade, but he had wet hair (from before putting his hood up) and cooled down quickly. We decided to eat near my office which luckily had a blanket.
