Saturday: funny things

Today was a funny day.  Again, not a lot got done but I'm used to not getting much done on a Saturday so it didn't feel so abnormal.

This morning Ben was cooking breakfast while I was also doing stuff in the kitchen.  He rinsed his hands after cracking open the eggs.  I got the dishwasher started.  He rinsed his hands again, but this time was taken aback by the water temp.  I had made it hot to start the dishwasher but the sudden change surprised him.  Then I decided that the oven towel needed to be changed so I grabbed it from the handle, and two seconds later he asks in disbelief where the towel was.  I found the whole thing hilarious.

We're watching a TV series based on the Lego sets "Elves".  The show is really quite bad, but we only have one episode left.  My favorite part from today was when the antagonist says to a void creature, "Oh, that's right. You don't have any pockets." I thought it was such a weird flex but it turned the void creature into one of my favorite characters. I feel for it. Women's clothing often doesn't have pockets either.

The SMTWRFSs showed up today. They're going for the star on the tree, as they previously threatened to do. The ladder is now in jail. Joshua thinks the ladder might be a SMTWFRS, but unless it has eyes I think it is just a ladder.

Ben and I finished going through the cords in the storage room! Now I just have to neaten them up, Ben needs to neaten up some cords in use, we will move some shelves over a few inches, and finally put in new shelves.

Friday: behind

I felt a bit behind for most of the day.  That doesn't mean that I didn't have fun and good day though - we still did Lego in the morning and nap time and family game.  But then one thing on the computer took an extra 40 minutes and by the time I was done it was lunch time and I had wanted to make mashed potatoes.  And maybe clean the kitchen.  And put the laundry in the drier.  And oh! The bread needed to be folded.

We had instant potatoes instead.  They were fine.  The kitchen well...is the kitchen.  The laundry eventually got in the drier.  Family game was fun.  We played the Minecraft game, and last time Ben had really bad luck defeating monsters.  He had slightly better luck today, but when Isaac and I had bad luck we called it "Dad luck" which really, also sounds like "bad luck."

The SMTWRFSs left me a note in their Christmas jail...but they weren't in it.  They aren't very educated, so it's a bit hard to read: "you locked us up for over a lot of times so uses [us-es] will steal the shiny crown atop the green cone"

Thursday: Thanksgiving

"Your place in God's family was never secured by the strength of your faith, but the strength of His grace.  God loves you because of who he is.  God loves you because it's his character.  God loves you because it's his joy."  From church

Tuesday: errands

I had a surprising number of errand for a work day.  I dropped off the compost.  Dad cut a long stick into five sticks.  I dropped off the household donations.  I got gas.  I picked up groceries.

Now, Meijer was really busy so I couldn't park in my normal spot of #2.  I had to go around and ended up in #6.  Imagine my surprise when Joshua complained about it because 6-7.  He thought I should move to parking spot 5.  (Isaac mentioned that kids aren't saying 6-7 at school as much anymore, but I feel like I still hear it from him a lot.  Not necessarily in the random way it was apparently often used, but the sequence comes up more often than one might expect.)

Last night was a bit rough, stepwise.  I was almost asleep when I started coughing, and I couldn't stop.  I finally moved out to the couch for a few hours, but it still took me a while to get it under control enough to go to sleep.  I think I'll just sleep in the guest room tonight; it's annoying but then at least Ben will get some sleep.  I thought I was getting better, and it suddenly hit.

Tomorrow looks like an odd combination of busy and relaxing.  The kids don't have school and we have some fun (and some boring) things planned.

Monday: stuff

I got a pretty good amount of stuff done today.  Not quite as much as I was hoping, but it did include cleaning my computer desk - that took longer than expected.  

There was a health insurance thing I was dealing with...the system has recently changed, so I needed to set up a passkey.  That involved an app, which I had already downloaded.  Ok.  The computer sent the message to my phone and I approved the request.  Nope.  It didn't work.  So I needed to log into the app and it told me that I didn't have a passkey and I needed to set it up.  So I set it up.  I got an email saying it worked.  It didn't work; I repeated that whole thing again.

I did this four times until giving up and doing what I needed to do in the app.

The game we were playing involves a place in the lid for a cat to sit.  It is hard to get the cats to sit in it, but we caught one.

Sunday: Great-Grandma

We stopped by to visit Grandma for a bit today.  We several games of Uno.

For the last few minutes we got out some blocks and had building competitions.

Couches:

Houses:

Bears:

Saturday: sweatshirts

Today was karate's annual Christmas sale, and I always go to pick up the annual membership.  They were also trying to get rid of some hooded sweatshirts.  The sweatshirts have been $10 for a while; I picked one up several weeks ago.  However, they were now $8 - so I picked up two more.  For something that is normally $40, it was too big of a steal to pass.  They're all black, so I'll just wait until I want a new soft sweatshirt.