Sunday: nursery

Today we (Isaac, Joshua, and myself) helped out in nursery at church.  I remember when I was required to help out in nursery and not loving it at all.  I just wanted to get away from little kids for an hour but instead was with additional little kids.  I told myself that I should help out (when my kids were older) to help give the moms a break.  Up until this point, I had no desire to do so.  But now Isaac is old enough to be an official helper and I thought it would be good to expose both kids to small children.

Both of them did a really good job.  Isaac ended up by the kitchen area of the room and stayed there for almost the whole hour.  Joshua floated around a little more, but played with the kids well.  There were quite a few kids, but only one that had any trouble separating from their parent; it was a rather calm session overall.

You could tell the kids were thinking about it a fair amount, because they had assorted comments and questions over the next few hours.

Saturday: out

 This morning Isaac (and I) took a belay class.  So now he can belay me!!  He was weighed down with a ton of sandbags though...it looked pretty funny.  I'll get a picture soon.

This evening we went over to a friend's house for dinner.  The kids had a great time playing, especially on the trampoline, and the adults enjoyed talking.

Friday: life

I got stuff done today.  I finished cleaning the baseboards and the closets in the bedroom.  I was already half way done with the closets but still managed to take a lot out.  It felt good.  I also did a quick clean by my desk and it was needed.

Joshua and I went to Captain Sundae tonight.  He had a gift certificate and we both had good ice creams.  However, we didn't have a ton of things to talk about. 

A month ago: Mom

I promise, I didn't forget to remember Mom's death day.  I will admit, it wasn't commemorated like normal though.  It was the day after the eclipse, and the first day back to normal things after spring break and so I didn't have time to do it normally.  It also took a while to get her flowers; I tried adding them to the grocery order and they didn't get in the order for some reason.

But I did eventually get the flowers, and they filled the kitchen with a beautiful aroma, reminding me of her.

There's also been a song stuck in my head, Untitled Hymn by Chris Rice.  It probably helps that I've played it often this past month.  It's the last verse that gets me though:

With your final heartbeat
Kiss the world goodbye
Then go in peace, and laugh on Glory's side

And fly to Jesus
Fly to Jesus
Fly to Jesus and live

Wednesday: Happy Anniversary!

Ben sent flowers for our anniversary.  Horizon was very interested in them.

We went to Red Rock for dinner.  Just as we were about to leave Jamie and Ashlyn showed up!  It is her birthday and they decided to come to the same place.  Jamie was kind enough to take a few pictures.

Tuesday: rock climbing

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.)

 

Monday

 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.