I wrapped almost all of the presents for Dec 24 and 25. I consolidated the presents for next weekend. And ended up with a big box pile!
Today went well. The kitchen is mostly clean. Many presents got wrapped.
While I was picking up Isaac from rock climbing, I was talking with one of the other moms. She mentioned that she needed to dethaw the meat. Dethaw! That's a word Mom used to use. I used it for a while until Ben mentioned that it actually means to freeze meat, although it is a combination of defrost and thaw.
The 'professional' pictures from the last rock climbing competition came out and Isaac was caught for once.
Ahh, my thoughts were pretty swirly today. There are a lot of things with Christmas that need to be remembered.
This morning I frosted the brownies, made peanut butter cookies, dealt with shredded chicken, and made mashed potatoes. I'm not keeping up with the dishwasher, so that made things a bit difficult. There is only a short food thing to deal with tomorrow though, so maybe it'll happen.
I worked on getting Christmas presents ready.
Oh! Laundry! I did that too.
So yeah - it wasn't all that exciting of a day, but it was fine.
This lego pencil fooled me. I thought the eraser looked weird at a glance, but I only glanced at it.
Well, now that grades are in I can start working more on Christmas prep. Although really, the day was pretty boring.
I got groceries, went to the library, and dropped off the compost. I made brownies, chex mix, and started getting some Christmas presents prepped.
I took a nap. It was a lovely nap.
I made dinner. I feel like I did a few other things but I'm not sure what. A few emails, cleaning up a few things, stuff like that.
We went to rock climbing. Joshua came up with a new game. I don't always love new games, but this one turned out pretty good! There is one off-limits hold on a route, choosen by person 1. Person 2 gets three guesses as to which hold it is. If they guess it, great! It gets skipped as you do the route. If Person 2 doesn't guess it correctly, they have do the route with as few holds as possible so that they don't accidently use the off-limits hold.
By the time we get back from rock climbing, Isaac takes a shower, and we eat, it is pretty much time for the kids to go to bed. Yesterday I finished a quilt top, which usually means I at least pretend to clean up my desk and deal with odd things. Isaac really needed some clothes alterations done, so I did two of his three items.
And then it turns out it is time for me to go to bed. Yesterday my to-do list was at rather high, and I think I added as many things as I took away today. But maybe tomorrow I'll be extra productive!
I put grades in today! I finished up what I needed to finish and put grades in by 11am. A bit longer than I was hoping, but still done.
I had lunch with a friend. I took a nap. I made dinner. I got rid of some of the short tasks on my list.
Also, I realized today that I forgot ear day! Ear day is Dec 13 and it's when ears are the best for eating. It's a cyclical thing, and July 13 is the day when they taste the worst. Anyway, I forgot the day until I was teasing Joshua during nightly questions. So I ate his ears. Then Isaac showed up and I called him in a for a hug. He was rather suspicious, but came for a hug anyway. And I ate his ear. But! Everyone was laughing!
This morning was a bit rough. The kids and I had different expectations about breakfast and time management, and so Isaac was sad I rushed him out the door and Joshua was starving because he didn't eat second breakfast.
But then it started to get better. Isaac finished all the pages of a math test that he needed to finish faster than normal. Joshua went to a fun birthday party while the rest of us played Apiary. (Isaac and I tied, but I won on the tie-breaker. So, per tradition, I had to put the game away at the end.)
I send Isaac some desmos equations that returned swirling hearts. He gave me a single heart back:
