Sunday: poem and Joshua

 I forgot to share my birthday poem from Dusty:

Happy Birthday to a girl named Amanda,

with more moves than a kung fu panda,

She's sweet as can be

And heals as a tree,

With better shade than my house's veranda.

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We were driving in one of Ben's work vehicles today and it alerted him that he should keep his eyes on the road.  (He was trying to get the error on purpose and was being very careful.)  Joshua responded with, "Ouch, that would hurt."

Saturday: birthday

 Happy birthday to me!  I received some nice presents this morning and did mostly normal Saturday stuff.  

This evening we visited with some friends.  These are the friends that only have boys...the kids ran around a bunch and we all had a good time.

Friday: orientering

 We tried an orienteering course today.  It was a fun time, but only went ok.  Some posts were really easy to find and we got them easily.  Other ones we couldn't find at all...but since we could get some of them, I feel like our methodology was sound.  It was also at the sledding hill, so the kids ran up and down it a few times until Joshua got hurt.

We had to stop at Meijer, and the south side Meijer made more sense to go to.  Mom always parked by G, so I obviously needed to do that too.

I put Isaac's yellow sheets on, and he had his yellow pajamas on, and he wanted a picture with those and his yellow giraffe.

Thursday: a normal summer day

 Today was a pretty good day.  As I was relating my day to Ben I realized I didn't get a lot of stuff done that was on my list for today.  Although that's pretty normal for the summer, it felt like even less than normal.

However, I did get a lot of stuff done with the kids.  Joshua's twinkle lights are up.  Isaac and I finished another Minecraft set, and in doing so found all the missing pieces to the first set we did.  I'm happy because the missing pieces are found!  However, I'm also a bit grumpy about it because it was a little annoying to look for all those pieces earlier.  We also cleaned the basement in advance of some guest coming.

Some guests came in the afternoon.  Natalie and I played several games while the kids played with Legos.  Joshua said he only had an ok time, but he seemed to be rather involved the whole time.  Isaac got into the play too and seemed to enjoy himself.

Wednesday: birthday month

 Joshua finished out his birthday month with a party with the grandparents.  He did an amazing job helping get things ready.  He was happy to help with the cleaning, even doing some without any prompting.  He also cut all the strawberries.

Isaac went to Michigan's Adventure for most of the day with church.  It's the first time he's gone on a trip like this, and I was a bit nervous but expected he'd be fine.  He was, and he had a good time.  He came home rather tired though.  

Horizon went into the cat backpack for the first time, so Isaac took him on a quick walk.

Tuesday: less annoying

Today was less annoying, although still not as amazing as most days.  I suppose that it was a normal amount of annoying, but the rest of the day was rather boring.

We'll try again tomorrow.

Monday: annoying

While not a bad day, it was an annoying day.  There.  I said it.

*Ben had his pain injection this morning and it was extra annoying.

*Joshua made a "shop" out of stuff that he's supposed to be decluttering.  Shops annoy me to begin with, but then when we weren't caring enough he got mopey.

*I was extra tired this afternoon.

*We were trying to stay quiet while someone was sleeping and it was hard and I wanted to do loud things.

*The school initially sent the wrong information for Joshua's 3rd grade class.  When we got the right information, it was the welcome packet from last year.  Did the teacher not care enough to do a quick edit?  Did the wrong file just get sent?  Add in a 'you're' instead of a 'your' and it still was a poor first impression.

We did have a lovely rain storm though.  Once Isaac and I cared more about Joshua's shop he bounced back.  I still had time to make banana bread.  I have the supply lists for grocery shopping tomorrow.