Sunday: Isaac laughing

 I made Isaac laugh so much today, over dumb things.

He wanted to have what was essentially a clip thumb-war.  Using an extra large clip, you try to "eat" the other person's extra large clip.  It was more fun than I expected, but still pretty dumb.

Then this afternoon he made a LEGO contraption that pushed a stick up through a frame when a button was pushed. Then he upgraded it so it worked better and he said, "and if you turn it upside-down it won't fall out."  What I didn't think about was all the other sticks that were also in the frame - they fell out.  His practical joke worked and Isaac obviously found it hilarious.

Saturday: blah

Today I only felt ok.  There were times of feeling fine and there were times of feeling a little yucky but I survived.

We played some games.  I didn't do as much cleaning as I hoped to do...we're having people over tomorrow so it matters more than normal.  They'll only be in the main area though and that gets cleaned up pretty quickly and I did get some cleaning done.

Friday: vaccines, dinner

The kids and I got our flu and COVID vaccines at Meijer today.  The sign-up process was a bit annoying, but in the end totally worth it.  We were in and out in about fifteen minutes, which is so much better than last year at Walgreens when it took at least 45 minutes.

We got home, I put the groceries away and I started dinner.  Ben and Isaac needed to leave at 6pm, so I had been a bit worried about getting dinner made in time so we were rushed.  Well, Meijer went so well that dinner ended up being early.  I'm really bad at timing dinner.  It seems like it is always late.

Thursday: groceries

Wednesday is normally grocery day.  For assorted reasons, I didn't get, or even order, groceries.

As I was picking up Joshua:
J: Did you get groceries?
A: No, I worked all day
J: oh, that's right

As we were making snack:
I: did you get groceries?
A: No, I was working

An hour later, after I took a short nap:
I: Did you get groceries?
A: what?  You already asked me like, an hour ago.
I: well, you disappeared and I thought maybe you went to get them
A: no, I took a nap, like I said I was going to.  [side note: we even had a conversation about celery while I was in the bed]

Wednesday: Christmas tree

Today was an odd day.

I woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible sore throat.  Sore enough that I got up to take some medicine.  I took a pretty long nap and have felt better and worse throughout the day, but no fever.

Isaac had the morning off school, which was weird but nice.  He got some work and chores done, and had some fun.  Ben also stayed home for a little bit this morning because he was working crazy hours Monday and Tuesday.  We played a game which was nice...we haven't been playing as many games due to schedules.

I also got started putting the new Christmas tree together.  The pegs are not as consistently sized as ideal, but we're figuring it out.  Below is the top half of the tree in two different configurations.

Tuesday: book interludes

 So, the book series I'm currently reading has put a "major interlude" at the end of the last three books, where we follow the story of a completely different character.  They seem to be in the same world, but probably not in the same time.  (There's a high chance the two characters will meet, but that has not happened yet.)

I do not appreciate it.  The main story tends to end at a cliff hanger, as books tend to do, and I want to know what is going to happen next!  Except I have to shift my attention to this other person.  Then I just get into their story and the book is done and I need to shift my attention back to the original character.  In my current book the interlude is 10% of the book!

I find myself stalling slightly every time I have to change, as it's basically like changing books.  Two good books, yes, but still annoying.

I will still highly recommend the books (Beneath the Dragoneye moons), but so far am not a fan of this interlude mechanic.

Monday: missing

So many (ok, only two) things went missing from right under my nose today.  Since usually zero things go missing, it was a bit surprising.

First of all was a fruit scrap container.  The fruit was feed to the worms.  But where did the container go?  I looked all over, except for in the worm bin.  But why would I have left it in the worm bin??  We'll find out next time, I guess.

Then Joshua had geared up a LEGO contraption and the blades flew off it.  We found one of the two missing blades, but the other one is gone.  We even pulled out the fridge and looked under it.  I think there is still a very small chance that it's under there, but we didn't find it.