Tuesday: life

We were going to bike to the donut shop this morning, but it was raining.  (We need the rain a lot, and I love rain, so it was a happy thing.)  So we switched days and made Empty Tomb Rolls instead.  I promised the kids that we would make them, but Easter was busy.

But that's ok...we should celebrate the resurrection of Christ all the time!

Well, the marshmallows didn't melt like they were supposed to, and so we all laughed about this.  And...the presence of Christ should expand.  They still tasted good.

The kids had a library event, but after a ton of traffic I managed to go to the wrong branch.  I've remembered to check every other library event, but just assumed for this one.  We made it to the right one about fifteen minutes late, but they were very kind about it.  It was for a cardboard cutting machine, and then the kids made cacti out of cardboard.  While they were doing the event one other mom and I finished up the puzzle we've been working on for a while.

And then it was meet the teacher night!  Joshua's room is very nice and his teacher seems down-to-earth.  We brought school supplies in, and left with more school supplies.  They were giving out boxes of supplies to all students.  We stopped by the art room to talk about art club - I'm hoping Joshua will be interested in it and I think stopping in helped that a ton.  Isaac is also interested, but it would also make his Tuesday's really busy so he was thinking no.  We walked around Isaac's classrooms.  He has many similar teachers as last year so that's mostly nice.  Finally, we stopped by the music room so Joshua could select an instrument for band.  He decided on baritone.  The school has some baritones to loan out and since not many students select baritone we might be able to use it for the year for free.

I got to open some great presents when we got home.

Monday: mini donuts

 We made mini-donuts with the sourdough starter today.  They were good, but not amazing.  I don't think they'll be on my list to make again soon, although the kids could probably persuade me to make them one or twice a year.

Sunday: today

Today was fine; nothing too exciting to write about.

We met the new Student Ministry Director (grades 6-12) after church.  It was billed as a meet and greet so I thought it would be about 15 minutes, but everyone sat down and it was more meeting like and took 45 minutes.

The family game was Century: Golem edition.  It's one of the games Joshua willingly plays.  Anyway, this game played out very differently as we bought almost all of the gem trading cards.  Usually we only buy a few, focusing on buying the golem cards.  Everyone had fun with it because it was playing out very differently.  (I still didn't win.  I triggered the end of the game, but didn't manage to win.  Again.  I'm not sure if I've ever won this game, but don't have any proof of that.)

Saturday: friends

We had some friends over tonight.  It was a lovely time, as always.  The kids played in the basement, in the lake, and then in the basement again.  The adults enjoyed catching up.

Friday: normal day

It was a normal day today: I had plans to get lots of things done and only got a few things done.

Thursday: Sandy Pines

Today we went to Sandy Pines to visit Uncle Lee and Aunt Susan in our yearly visit.

We started with a round of mini-golf, followed by lunch.  They have pretzels at the canteen, and they're always a hit.

Then we went on the ropes course.  This is the first time we've been around when the ropes course was open.  It was a good one!  I thought Joshua was going to freak out on the second leg, but he made it through that one and then he was good from there out.  He even did that leg a few more times with no issues.

We also walked in the creek for the first time!  We decided not to do the pool, so the creek was a perfect way to cool off.  And although most of the time it was only ankle deep, it was so cold.  We walked up it a bit to see their backyard.

Overall, it was a lovely time as always.

Tuesday and Wednesday: life

I made some naan with my sourdough.  The bread was good but it could use a bit more flavor.  (Also, not as good as the restaurant's but better than the store-bought stuff.)  The sourdough started was recently named Brad.  It's not quite bread yet.

Monday Ben was able to drive himself to work and I was telling the kids how weird it felt.  Isaac said, "aw, he's all grown up" in just the right voice.  He did it again today, but I don't remember what the context was.

Last night I came home to this.  Joshua had cleaned the raspberries and covered them.  However, there are big holes in the basket so the cover really doesn't do anything at all.

We bought two tomatoes at the store.  I gave one to each kid and told them to keep it safe.  That meant a note in the fridge.  Speaking of the store, we were all there for school supplies.  It. was. terrible.  There were barely any college ruled anything.  We had to dig through boxes and then open one up to find the college ruled notebooks.  There was one box of college ruled composition books that took five minutes to find.  There was one box of 8 expo markers.  There were no boxes of Ticonderoga pencils.  We never found glue sticks.

Who likes wide rule notebooks, anyway.