Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Tuesday: Christmas Eve

It was the most loveliest of days.

We saw Dad and Pat for breakfast.

We opened presents.


Ben and Joshua have been taking turns hiding this LEGO cat.  Ben had Isaac wrap it as a present yesterday, but then Joshua was very worried about it this morning when he couldn't find it.  The reason he was so worried is because he made some accessories for it as a present.  There is a cute little bow tie and a fish skeleton on a fancy platter that lifts up.

I (and the rest of the family) got a D&D puzzle from Ben.  It is a has a six mini puzzles with a problem to solve.  From Isaac I got a special mug that has a weird handle which makes it easy to grab and keeps your fingers warm.  We also got a bunch of electronic components for Gravitrax, and it was played with pretty constantly the rest of the day.

Joshua and I went to a Christmas Eve service with one of his friends while Ben and Isaac watched from home.

We played one of the games after church.  It has a Minecraft theme, and was pretty fun.


Monday, December 23, 2024

Monday: pre-Christmas

It was an odd day.  Joshua had a friend over for most of the day.  Isaac and I went to the library for the 3D printer.  I finished up some present stuff.  Isaac and I went to a Hilldore Christmas get-together.  

Ben and Joshua have colds, so they stayed home.  They finished wrapping some presents and made sunglasses.


Sunday: Lego Village

 The plan this year was to keep all the Christmas Lego sets put together and do a better job aranging them all.  The arrangement shown on the bottom isn't the final arrangement because Joshua wanted all the north pole stuff together, but it's close.  Ben did an awesome job dealing with the boxes and putting together some cute details.




Saturday, December 21, 2024

Saturday: nice

Today was a lovely day.  We got some work done but also had a lot of fun.  The work just seemed to happen too.

Christmas Ruiners are still ruining Christmas.

Yesterday the black sheep broke it's two front legs.  A box was moved and the mover didn't realize there was a sheep.  Luckily, an ambulance brought the sheep and legs to Hilldore Hospital.

The sheep got all fixed up and proceeded to give the paramedics a ride!


Friday: presents!

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!


One of the sheep had an accidental fall this morning.  Joshua made a cute ambulance to bring it to Hilldore Hospital.  The sheep has been healed and will be back to shenanigans tonight.



Thursday, December 19, 2024

Thursday: climbing

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.



Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Wednesday: swirls

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.