Wednesday: taxi driver

Today I felt like a taxi driver.  I know it's a common complaint of parents, but today was worse than normal and included five circuits.  (Where a circuit is, at the minimum, leave the house, go somewhere, come back to the house.)  With that many even the in between times weren't all that restful as I needed to be aware of the time most of the day.  I have found that setting alarms on the phone often helps me relax in between, but I didn't do that for all of the trips.

In other news, I managed to clean the garage and mentored a mostly successful Lego League meeting.  (Actually, my group at Lego League seemed very successful.  We made a robot, added additional parts, and got it to do something semi-functional.  This is more than we've done in the past.)

Tuesday: break

Yesterday Joshua convinced me to buy another fish and a castle.  Joshua named his new fish "I don't know."  I-don't-know hasn't eaten very much today; Yellow has been hogging all the food.

It was Fall Break today so I got the kids to school and then came back home to sleep in.  I stayed in bed until 11!  (Although I was up for an hour and a half in the middle, but still.)  I then got several things crossed off my list.  I also had 'clean the garage' so that some of the summer stuff can come in.  However, it was a very warm day so I decided to work on the loft project, which is taking infinitely longer than I was hoping.  However, when it is a warm day the paint comes off more easily.  As of tonight, I'm over half way done with this last piece.

Monday: as things change, they stay the same

Last night I continued reading letters that my grandma wrote to her children in 1969-70.  Have many things changed since then?  Yes.  But at the same time, so many things have stayed the same...

...women were still dealing with morning sickness
...vacation days were much appreciated
...house projects always took a while
...weather is interesting
...people stay up too late reading

Sunday: normal day

Today was a pretty normal Sunday, as Sundays go.  We went to church in the morning, had screen time, rest time, Lego time, and eating time.  I made chocolate blueberry pancakes for dinner and they were delicious.

Saturday: marble painting

As part of his homework due on Monday, Isaac needs to come up with ideas to write about.  (They're calling it a 'Heart Map.')  Anyway, we've been putting it off because no one has really wanted to do it.  We finally got all the ideas on it today.

The most surprising one that he came up with was Marble Painting.  I guess having an idea and seeing it come to fruition really made an impression on him. 

After we filled up about half the spaces we started using the blog to look for ideas.  Isaac seemed rather surprised at all the content and probably would have spent a long time looking.  I made him go quickly and only look at the pictures because I wanted to be done with this homework assignment.

Friday: a new style of shorts

This morning I updated the closets.  For Isaac this didn't mean much, but for Joshua he got all of the 4t clothing put in his closet and a reorganization since there are a lot of long sleeve shirts right now.  (I think he's almost out of a lot of the 3t stuff, but I like to see it too short and take it out after the next wash.)

Anyway, I explained the new system to him and let him get dressed.  A few minutes later he comes into my bedroom and says, "Mom, these shorts don't fit."

After a very fast inspection the reason was obvious - he was wearing a sweater.  One leg through an arm hole and one leg through the torso hole.

Thursday: greenhouse, cars, raspberries

We went to the Hope College Greenhouse today since we couldn't go with Lego League last week.  From the bit that we heard yesterday, the GVSU one was probably bigger (and cooler).  It also was quite an adventure to get to the Hope Greenhouse.  While it's open to the public, you need to go down small hallways and through closed doors.  There are no signs marking it's location.  We didn't stay long, but our objective was fulfilled; we saw a greenhouse.

On the way home, out of nowhere, Joshua says, "Mom, sometimes I get confused because toilet paper is white and cars are white and sometimes I think white cars are made of toilet paper."  Well, that hit Isaac's funny bone and he proceeded to ask Joshua what the other color cars are made of...
red = apples
yellow = broken stop lights and honey
blue = water
brown = crayons
tan = tan Legos
green = leaves

We got home and I picked the raspberries.  It's been a bit longer than usual since I last picked, but I think I also got the largest amount of the summer.