Thursday: snow day 3

Although this snow day wasn't called until 5:30am, it was still the right choice.  The snow was rather drifty, but the end of the driveway and road had 6-8".  Driving wasn't terrible, but it was far from good.  Only the very major roads were plowed this morning.

So work went fine.  I finally picked up groceries and a minute before I was going to leave Isaac texts to ask if I'm going to get groceries.  I mention that I'm at the store, and he sends me a kitten licking an ice cream cone.  So I went back in to get ice cream.

I also text him that I was unable to find a kitten in the grocery store, so I wasn't able to fulfill his request.

When I get home, Joshua and Ben were playing outside.  Ben dealt with the driveway and then stayed outside to help make the snow sculpture the kids continuously work on.

Isaac wanted to go somewhere, but we settled on a short ski trip around the neighborhood together.  It at least got him out of the house for a bit.

Wednesday: snow day 2

Today was another great day, but for different reasons.  I didn't get much work done and forgot about the laundry a lot.  But!  I played a lot of games, went cross-country skiing, and had Joshua help me with a few small projects.

The projects Joshua selected included putting up the milky way and changing a toilet handle.

We just went skiing around the neighborhood.  It took Isaac a bit to pick it up, but by the end he was doing well...and only fell three or four times.  It's times like this I'd love to get back into cross-country skiing but then I remember that I need 1) time, 2) snow, and 3) someone to go with me.  I rarely have all three of those.

Joshua was complaining about snow getting into his boots, so I added some tubes.  They're old socks and in the past I've used them as wrist protectors.  They worked pretty well, although not perfectly.

Tuesday: a nice day

Well, I had a very nice snow day today, and it culminated with another snow day tomorrow!  My week was going to be quite busy and, honestly, I wasn't very excited about that.  But both things for tomorrow have been canceled and I had time to get several things done today.  Doing my other things would have been good, but I can also be happy that I don't have to do them now.

Isaac is only medium-excited about the snow day tomorrow.  I think he'd prefer it next week...which we have absolutely no control over.  He might have this idea in his imagination about what a snow day should look like and in reality they include more work.  Joshua was excited though!

I sent Laura a Happy Birthday picture and she wasn't sure if I photoshopped it or actually went to the store and put party hats on chip bags.  I'm just excited that someone thinks I would do such a thing and now I think that'll be my goal for her next birthday.  The chip bags and I can go around to all the different foods that say "party size" on them, put a party hat on them, and get a picture.

Monday: extra weekend day

Today was a lovely day.  Ben stayed home and the kids were home because of MLK day.  We put together Legos.  We fixed a light switch.  We did a Lego challenge a la Joshua.  We worked on the D&D puzzle.  There is also a snow day tomorrow!  I am rather jealous: I'd like a snow day, or at least a virtual day, too.

The Lego challenge was to make something for a lovie.

Isaac got Snacksalotal.  Isaac was going to make five treats, but only had time for 1.75...a Danish and mint chocolate chip ice cream.

Ben got Creeper.  He made an exploding cat hospital.

Catcachinno got a coffee dispenser with a coffee cup that would move from the dispenser to his mouth.

I got Grey Bear!  He's my favorite.  Grey Bear likes taking naps so I made him a new bed.  I was going to make a really fancy bed!  I ended up with a basic bed because I didn't have much time.

BREAKING NEWS!  Hope just canceled classes tomorrow.  How exciting!!  It will mess up the schedule a little bit, but I don't love 'date day' and the lab computers now have TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER which is so much easier to understand than LEFT(, SEARCH()) and RIGHT(,LEN()-SEARCH()).  I'll probably combine the two.

Saturday: Lego and friends

 Isaac has been working on a Lego radio set that he got for Christmas.  He asked for this one because it is supposed to be a really interesting set to build.  It's been a kind of funny set though.  Isaac will build about five pieces and then fiddle with the latest thing that he made for a while, figuring out how it went together.  Then he would roll on the floor a bit, then he would play with Joshua a bit, and then he would do another five pieces.  And repeat the process.  It's been hilarious, and wonderful.

Friends came over this evening.  It was lovely.  We had tacos, played Space Base, and talked Legos.  

Friday: Operation: Clean the House - Storage Room

Today I started cleaning the storage room.  I originally was planning on doing the storage room last, but it's gotten really hard to move around in the storage room so it needed to be moved up.

Today's project was to get rid of one bookcase's worth of books so that I could stuff that is currently on the floor in the empty bookcase.  We don't use actual books anymore, so for the most part we would just read these books on a kindle if we wanted to read them again.

Before:

After.  I know it looks neater too, but that wasn't really the goal.  There's still a lot of dust and some spider webs, but I was able to move other stuff out of the way.

I grabbed a few other easy things, and this is how much I took out.  It's still a mess, but I feel like it's a lot easier to walk around in.  I'm not completely sure what to next, but I'll contemplate it for the next week and do something.  The goal is about two hours a week.

As I was dealing with some books I had grabbed from Cheryl's house, I found a pack of cards.

I opened them up to see if they were all there, and to my surprise they weren't playing cards!  Ben was happily excited about finding them.

Thursday: traffic

Thursdays are my 'run the kids around in the car' the most day.  However, the trips went faster than normal because there wasn't any traffic.  Well, there was some traffic, but not nearly as much as normal.  It was kind of weird.

Giraffe joined me at work.  Apparently he wanted to watch students go past.