Saturday: e-Foil

This morning was rather relaxing.  We built with Legos, and then I did a slow clean of the basement while the boys talked about the latest Magic cards.  They were Avatar: The Last Airbender themed and Joshua got into them too.

After nap time Ben brought his e-Foil out for a short ride.  The controller needed to be replaced in the middle of the summer, but since Ben's foot was broken he wasn't able to see if the new controller fixed the problem.  While it was a lovely afternoon and he had a good ride, he is unsure if the new controller fixed the problem.  There were no sudden power outages, but there may have been a few power decreases in the middle of the ride.

I attempted to get a few more things done in the evening.  I'm only feeling about 85%...not that terrible but also not that amazing.

Friday: more ups and downs

I went to bed last night with a sore throat and woke up feeling rather yucky.  I woke up a little early and didn't have to make any lunches, so I worked hard to get my chores started.  And after I brought the kids to school, I took a nap.  Oh, I felt so much better after that nap, although I think the ibuprofen had kicked in.

I worked on the storage room again today.  I'm actually getting close!  I cleaned the smaller portion of the storage room today including one box I was not looking forward to.  Turns out the box wasn't too bad - I think we had thrown a lot of stuff in it ten years ago and ignored it after that.  It did make it significantly easier to deal with because it was all old.  I was able to make a list of all the stuff I still need to do...it isn't too bad.  It's nice going from not having any clue what to do next to have a short list.

Isaac and Joshua had a half day today, so one of Isaac's friends came home with us so they could go rock climbing.  He ended up spending the whole afternoon here and it was nice that Isaac had a friend to hang out with - it hasn't really happened before.  Joshua also had a friend and his mom come over so we all had friends.

By the time they left I wasn't feeling great again.  I picked up some pizza, only to realize that I had ordered two of the kind that I like and zero of the kind that Ben likes.  (The ordering system is terrible and it always has been.)  Luckily there was a really good sale, so we might pick up another one tomorrow for Ben.

Thursday: Mom points

Here's the best picture from last night.  We could see a few of the green spikes but they were faint.

The rest of the day was fine.  It had some ups and downs.  Isaac gives me "Mom points" for chores that I do and for making food that he likes, but it can be hard to spend them sometimes.  I didn't want to get the laundry started after we got home so I paid Mom points to Isaac and he got it started.  I took a really short nap before leaving to pick up Joshua from school.

Wednesday: ups and downs

Down: we woke up really early.

Up: Ben was getting up early, so I also got up and got quite a bit done before I needed to bring the kids to school.

Down: I had forgotten a few groceries on the order and had to go inside to get a few more things.

Up: When I brought the groceries inside the kitchen counter had been cleaned already so there was room for the groceries.  It's nice not needing to bend down to get the bags.

Up: I had a donut.

Up: I had a nice nap.

Down: someone from karate ended up in the hospital (not related to karate) and the prognosis is really bad.  As in, possibly 10 days to live bad.  Even if the short term treatment works, there are still major health issues long term.  I would say that she is a very good acquaintance and we chat a bit and wave to each other, but never became all that close.  At the same time, she does a lot at the dojang and she would be sorely missed.

Up: I saw the northern lights, barely.

Down: my camera doesn't have the right filter and can't see the lights.  Ben's phone could see them easily, but sharing them to me takes a few hours for some unknown reason so I can't share them yet.

Tuesday: dates

Today we talked about dates in Excel.  My lecture for dates is uninspired.  Dealing with dates is important, absolutely.  And it is so boring.  Half of the lecture is, "watch your formatting."  Now, there are several important things you can do with dates and a few almost important functions, so they are worth talking about.  But...they're still boring.

However, it did lead to several interesting conversations later on in the day as I complained about them!

Monday: stuff

 We got another picture of Tornado in a Tornado picture.  He has the same annoyed expression.

I got through a bunch of my chores today.  Not only did I actually get through a lot of things, it looks like I got a lot of things done.

Hmm.  I thought there was something interesting that happened today, but it isn't coming to mind.  Oh!  It was our first good snow.  It was during the afternoon, so I was able to enjoy it.  It's that lovely time when the snow sticks on the grass (and leaves) but not on the roads.

Sunday: D&D

 We played some more D&D today.  Isaac changed it up quite a bit and a spider that I was controlling scouted out a big dungeon that we need to go enter.  The best part was when a sentry saw the spider and proceeded to think to himself that he needed to call in the cleaning people because some of his bad guy group was scared of spiders.