Friday: last day of school

They made it!  The last day of school.  It doesn't feel like we should be here already and I'm not sure why - maybe it's because the weather has been on the cool side?  Maybe because Isaac had homework through the beginning of this week?  I'm not sure.  Isaac, whose backpack has been heavy the whole year because he just takes all of his stuff with him, decided not to take his backpack and it felt weird.

I got a surprising amount of work done this morning, including some summer lists.  The kids studied them intensely soon after they got home.  One is "things to do this summer" and the other is "things to do before you can tell mom you're bored".  I've been hearing "I'm bored" a lot more the last two months, and want to try and preemptively get rid of some of that.

Thursday: groceries

 I got groceries yesterday.  Then yesterday and today I ran out of several important things - eggs (well, there are four left but I like having more on hand), flour (I found some wheat flour in the freezer), black beans (I used black bean soup instead), and pasta (I had enough frozen ravioli).  Couple that with finishing off several other items and I could go back to the store already.  It's annoying.  It's especially annoying when I'm in the middle of making something only to realize that I don't have enough.

Wednesday: miscellaneous

This morning after dropping the kids off I saw a crane opening up.  It was as cool as you imagine it was.  I looked pretty hard but couldn't find a video of something similar.

Horizon loves my puzzle a little too much.

 Isaac wrote a nice end of the year card.

Tuesday: eFoil2

Ben had a second eFoil lesson today and got up on foil like it's supposed to!  Unfortunately, the HOA is currently saying that they are not allowed on the lake and there was a bit of drama associated with that from non-HOA neighbors.  (The email that they aren't allowed came out while Ben was on the lake and within a few minutes several people told him it wasn't allowed.)  While the HOA has some valid points, Ben is hoping to still talk with them soon.  He also talked with one of the board members and she was at least friendly.  Regardless, Ben had a great lesson and was excited to lift up out of the water.

Christmas-ish Tree quilt

Due to some odd circumstances, I don't want to put this quilt on my quilting blog.  But I still want a record of it.

It is a bee quilt, which means many people made a block (or two), sent them to me, and I put them together and quilted them.  Sometimes I think other people did well in their fabric choices, but sometimes I'm not thrilled.  It's the nature of the bee.

In the background I quilted loops using the same color thread as the background color.  In the trees I used a variegated green/brown thread and made some spiky stick-like things.

Monday: O:CtH - master bedroom

Today I finished the cleaning of the master bedroom!  Just in time for summer vacation.

Since the furniture got moved around I can't quite do the same angles like I normally try to do.  Instead, here are the before pictures:

And after.  We'll also realize I did a few things (like make the bed) to make it look cleaner than normal.  Usually there's some not-clean-not-dirty clothes around and a few things on the dresser.

It was hard to get pictures of the closets, but we got rid of a lot of clothes and cleaned up the floor that had been accumulating assorted boxes.

Oh! I didn't get a good picture of the dresser!  It is all clean and even has a few flowers on it right now.  Well, you can imagine it nice and clean.

I'm going to take a (long? short?) break for the next little bit and try to catch up on some of my other to-do items.  I might try to do the laundry room over the summer, but might not.

boxes

I have a box problem.

I like to keep an assortment of boxes in the basement, because it's always nice to have "just" the right one.  Small, large, thin, cuboid.  It means I have a lot of boxes though, and they take up a lot of room.  I do think that I go through them relatively quickly though, so I'm not ready to stop my collection yet.

I do get rid of some boxes.  I don't keep them all.  However, they all get evaluated.