Today was XLOOKUP day!
One of the activities we do is a madlib. This semester I realized that the students are surprisingly consistent on the words they select.
Number: something less than 100. Today I was surprised when someone chose 16281
Verb (ends in -ing): running. This one is chosen at least 50% of the time.
Noun: this one changes all the time. There isn't a consistent noun.
Animal: dog
Dwelling: cave. Again, this is chosen about 50% of the time.
Sport: lacrosse
It was a pretty normal Monday. I started with some chores. Sometimes I get exciting chores on Monday, but today was not that day. The kitchen had been ignored all weekend and there were other normal things to do.
Pat and I met for coffee in the morning and that was nice as always.
Isaac tried to get his COVID shot, but after we got to the doctor's office they said they had just run out of the vaccine. The office isn't too far away, but it was still a bit annoying.
I made homemade applesauce with dinner. It was yummy and Isaac was really excited about it.
Karate had a few more black belts show up tonight that haven't been there for a while, which was nice. That being said, it wasn't a very good workout and that was a little disappointing. We did a lot of self-defense and that is not very exercise-y.
It was Great-Grandma's birthday today, and there was a party. Isaac gave her some of the rocks that he's polished lately.
After a half day of school, we went rock climbing. It was actually Joshua's first time climbing at Scrapyard since the expansion; he's taken a bit of a break. I think the current plan is actually to bike once a week and rock climb once a week.
Isaac also worked really hard to get the route of the week.
Today was the busiest day I've had in quite a while. Everything went pretty smoothly though.
6:25am: wake up. Everyone needed lunches made today plus the cutting of bread and it took me longer to get through everything in the morning. Usually I have a at least 10 minutes to eat my own breakfast, but today I ate at work.
7:35am: leave the house to drop off the kids at school and go to work
9:30: teach
11:15: lunch with Natalie
12:15: make-up test (this was super easy on my end. I needed to be around to administer it, but otherwise I just did my work)
1:30: teach
3:20: pick up Joshua from school
3:40: pick up Isaac from PATH
3:55: get home
4pm: leave to get some library books for Joshua and drop off the compost. The compost place has new (and fewer) hours and they just aren't quite as convenient. The library is on the way, so I thought I might as well go there too.
4:17pm: get stopped by a train. This was not in the plan. I had about eight minutes of wiggle room, during which I was going to eat my dinner in the parking lot. I ate it while waiting for the train instead.
4:29pm: Show up to Joshua's conference, just in time. He's doing amazing! His teacher had so many nice things to say about him - academically and socially. I couldn't have asked for a better report.
4:50: Go to Isaac's first conference. They said some nice things about Isaac, gave us his report, and we talked about books.
4:55pm: Go to Isaac's second conference. This one was with a teacher I really like. We talked about a few minor things (both positive and neutral) so that we're on the same page. I had been on the fence about signing up with her because we only needed to go to one, but I was glad that I did.
5:20pm: get home, look at Joshua's sketch book...it was amazing. He's really upped his art skills recently.
5:30pm: leave for rock climbing
5:40pm: start my lead belay class. It was three hours, but the time went so quickly! There's another class next week and I'll need more practice to get everything down, but things are going well.
8:35pm: leave for home
8:45pm: finish the pizza dough
9pm: finish a few items for work that need to be done after classes
9:15pm: relax
I was effectively gone from the house for 13 hours, but the day at least flew by.
Today was fine.
I got groceries. My foot hurt.
I came home, put away the cold stuff, got a load of laundry started, put a new bottom sheet on the bed and decided it was nap time. It was a wonderful nap. It always feels weird to have a morning nap, but sometimes it's what I need.
I woke up in time for lunch and did a few more chores. I had to push my way through some. I didn't get as many done as I had been hoping, but I also remind myself it's ok. The cats were surprisingly cuddly today and every time I sat down one was in my lap.
After picking up the kids I had a doctor's appointment about my foot. The doctor wasn't worried about it and gave me some recommendations and told me to come back in four weeks if it wasn't better. I'm not even on any activity (karate/rock climbing) restrictions, which surprised me. He said it might take a little bit longer to heal if I'm active, but it's also important to be active.
Karate was good.
I lost the board game. I haven't won this board game yet, but it is Isaac's favorite.
Today's lovie story:
I made Creeper join nap pile today because it was his turn to be special lovie. He was not happy about this and kept threatening to explode. Since we have a strict "no explosions in the house" rule, I told him to take it outside. So he did. HOWEVER, that made Grey Bear really upset because he loves going outside and never gets to anymore. Joshua is their adult, so I made him deal with it. He made a new rule: all lovies can now either choose to go outside during nap pile or enjoy nap pile. Grey Bear will have a hard time deciding.
I thought it was supposed to rain all day, but it didn't really start until mid-afternoon. That was fine with me; I was in windowless rooms most of the time until mid-afternoon anyway. There was some small hail scattered in too.
Classes were fine. The kids only had a half day of school, and it is so nice that I could pick them up and drop them off at home without needing to arrange care for them.
I had an annoying amount of things to do after work. Usually I just call it a day, with the exception of maybe a few small things and dinner, but today there was more. I modified a pair of Ben's pants to hopefully fit over the boot. I started a new loaf of bread because the one I made this weekend smelled weird. I did a load of laundry.
I also went rock climbing with a partner. It was a rather easy session but it was nice. I needed an easy session as I pretend to take it easy to heal my assorted issues.
