Sunday: Halloween

After I woke up this morning I found this meeting of stuffed animals.  They're meeting to figure out what to do about the bad boss.  They're sorted by families...Bears have 7 members, Plutos 4, and Dragons 3.  (I'm not sure sure they ever figured out what to do.)

 

For Halloween I made mummy dogs, per Joshua's request.  (He remembered them from last year.)  However, I only had giant eyes, so I said they were Minion Mummy Dogs.

Friday: a vacation

A few weeks ago Isaac told me he needed a vacation from Joshua.  (They were still playing well together, but they are together a lot.)  Anyway, so this evening he's with Cheryl.

Joshua was so excited to sleep in our room.  I'm not really sure why, since we put him to bed several hours before we actually go to bed.

We also took a little walk after dropping off Isaac so that he could show me the scary tree.

Horizon also curled up with Joshua while he was watching TV, so that was fun.

Wednesday: a lovely day

Today was a rather nice day.

I gave an exam on zoom.  These are pretty easy to give and I do my work while they're taking it.  However, the students finished significantly earlier than the allotted time, which gave me time to get groceries without rushing.

While getting groceries I saw someone wearing the same shirt as me and so said hi.  A few minutes later we commiserated about the lack of blueberry bagels.

I had a delicious lunch and walk with Cheryl and Allison.

We did a trunk-or-treat at the church.  This might have been my first trunk-or-treat ever and Ben and I were both so impressed with the decorations!  It was also busier and bigger than I was expecting, but that made it more fun too.  The boys came home with a lot of candy!

Tuesday: long day

Our schedule has changed a bit and now we have very busy Tuesdays.  School/work, right to piano lessons.  (We do have about 30 minutes between school and piano lessons, so "we" get homework done during that time.)  We get home and Joshua has (zoom) karate before too long...which I also participate in.  There's an hour to finish making dinner and eat.  Then Isaac and I have (zoom) karate.

Phew.  There's a lot of things that make this still quite doable.  I've decreased the number of chores.  While zoom karate is a bit annoying, it also gives the boys some extra time at home and we don't need to spend time going back and forth.

Weekend: Joshua

 Joshua got all the pictures this weekend.

He started with a note about his blockade.  "Cats only.  Super Secret Passage.  Super secret hideout <--.  Cats only!  No humans allowed.  Only kids and cats allowed.  No parents allowed."  I asked if kids were humans and he didn't really answer.

Shortly after that he said it had been a long time since we've had donuts and we should get some.  He's right; Meijer hasn't had the kind that I like the most, so it's been easy to skip.  We quickly went to DeBoers, hoping they weren't sold out by 9:30.  They weren't.  Of course, we didn't end up with any donuts either.  Isaac got a black and white cookie, I got an almond thing, and Joshua had a chocolate croissant.

On Sunday he made a new Halloween costume for Grey Bear.

Friday: slippers

 It's getting cold out.  I wore my slippers all day today and made the kids wear more clothing for outside too.

This evening Joshua made a blockade that he was really proud of.

Thursday: ruckus

 Ben and Isaac have been working on a tower.  This past week the boys were given some additional direction: to make bad guys climbing up the tower to the good guy castle (which is still under construction).  They went at it with gusto and all sorts of things are storming the castle.

Joshua added this guy.  He's "in a safe spot watching the ruckus" while eating and drinking.  Just chillin' amid the fray.