Friday: the week

 The week: classes finished.  There's a ton of grading to do.  There was a snow day.  Ben stayed home with the kids.  Isaac has a lot of work.  We have a busy weekend coming up.

Tuesday: pots

 I made some porch pots with Jamie and Cheryl this evening.  It was pretty fun.  I thought it'd be interesting, but it was more fun than I expected.  I decided to put it on the deck because then I get to see it more.  As I was bringing through the house Horizon was very excited to eat it.  Very excited.

Monday: snow

 It was a lovely snowy day today.  We didn't get as much snow as they were forecasting.  So I guess that not having a snow day was the right call.

The Christmas Ruiners showed up today.

Friday: a day in

Today was a lovely stay-at-home day.

First of all, it snowed on and off throughout the day.  (I thought it was going to melt, but now it might not happen right away.)  While we did have a dusting last week, this is the first real snow.

We finished up Joshua's D&D campaign.  It had a few quirks, but overall was really cool.  Isaac, the mage, got a spell called "fire surg".  Instead of reading it as intended, Isaac kept saying "fire surg".  After correcting him several times Joshua finally said that Isaac would lose health if he said it wrong again.  Well, I had a question and used fire surg (it was somewhat appropriate for the question, but also I wasn't thinking), and so I suddenly lost a health point!  It was fair.

We also were attacking some purple gems.  I hit it with one of my golden drumsticks: 1 pt of damage for me.  I hit it again: 2pts of damage for me.  Oh well, I was done at that point.  Then Ben said, "so how does this increase?  Plus one damage each time?  Double?  ...Exponential?"  At which point I had the loudest hiccup and everyone laughed at my surprise.  (It was double by the way.)

I also have a cold.  Probably the one that Joshua had earlier this week.  It's not much fun.

Wednesday: a nice day

 The kids didn't have school today, so we had a pretty easy day.  We got the Christmas decorating started.  Joshua was excited to put stuff up; he just kind of put of this or that but slowly made progress.  He also put up the Christmas tree!

Isaac did the upstairs lights.  They're awesome.  I didn't get any pictures (yet), but lights are everywhere.

We finally gave Ben his birthday presents, although we haven't actually sung Happy Birthday yet.  Maybe tomorrow. 

We went rock climbing, hoping to see some of Isaac's friends.  However, it was busier than normal.  Joshua didn't love it, but it meant that Isaac was willing to belay me.

We went to Red Rock with family to celebrate birthdays for dinner; it was lovely.

Sunday: yup

It's been a normal month.  Things just aren't all that exciting.

I had an oil change and tire change this morning.  I was half way home and got a call that Joshua wasn't feeling very good.  He was a bit out of it this morning - cold symptoms, not fever or anything like that.  Anyway, I was glad that I was still in the car so I detoured to go grab him.  He wasn't great at home, but after a bit of extra rest he was at least ok.  We'll try again tomorrow!  (Honestly, the kids try really hard to not be as sick on days that I work, so I come pick them up when I'm not working without question.)

I graded for most of the morning.  I wanted to get up and do other chores, but Tornado had made himself comfortable in my lap so I was trapped.  I did finish grading the lab though, so I only have one left!

I putzed around with chores after nap time - I cleaned the kitchen, thought the office light was fixed (but it isn't), paid some bills, etc.  I worked on a Lego set while Joshua worked on a different project in the basement.  We didn't really talk much; I think he just wanted some company.

I'm not thrilled with my chore list at the moment.  It's all boring stuff or big stuff.

Saturday: relaxing

We relaxed most of the morning.  It was a lovely morning.  There were some work done.

Hmm.  Well.  It was nice having Ben back around and we traded stories throughout the day.