Wednesday: LEGO take apart

For most of the day Joshua was ok.  He probably spent about 95% of his day on the couch (by choice).  He got extra screen time and listened to audio books for quite a while.  While he was listening to audio books, he was taking about some of our LEGO sets.  The ones that have needed to be taken apart have been piling up, so I was super excited that he was willing to do this.  (Sometimes we do it during church if we do church at home, but we haven't done that much.  Sometimes Ben does it during dinner, but lately he's been on sorting the loose LEGO drawers because some needed to be split into two or more categories.)

I went on a walk with Natalie - the weather has been beautiful lately!

In karate we went over our knife defense.  I attacked my partner, Will, first, who did a nice job of dealing with the attack...if it wasn't a knife attack.  He punched my face and I swished the knife and then he had no legs.  We were working with knives, so by the end of the night he also had no fingers.  (I wasn't paying attention, but I probably didn't have all my fingers either.)  (Also, Will is much better than I am.  There are just a lot of things to remember.)

Tuesday: Fall break

Today was fall break, so Dad and I worked on the Christmas tree.  We had a great system down, and managed to drill 216 holes in about two hours.  I'm really curious and excited to see how it looks, but I need to wait for the Christmas tree stand to come first.

I got home and talked with Aunt C for a little bit.  While the morning had started out cold, by 11 is was really nice out.  I had lunch and then Ben called because he had made arrangements to deal with some e-foil stuff.  Things lined up pretty well, so he was dealing with that until mid-evening.  (Although he got extra ragoons so I could have some, even though I didn't have Chinese for dinner.)

At 2:20 I got a call from Joshua; he wasn't feeling well.  It didn't completely surprise me because he was a bit off this morning.  He really did seem pretty off, and when he took his temperature it was 99.1F.  Hmm, that's an annoying amount because the fever is starting but isn't high enough to say for sure no school tomorrow.  We decided that Joshua would take a nap and we'd check again.

Joshua slept for over two hours - he hasn't taken a nap in a long time.  When he woke up he definitely had a fever, so he gets to join me at home tomorrow.  He perked up a bit with some medicine, but never was his normal self and said he was still pretty tired.  We'll see how tomorrow goes!

Sunday: driving

I've been doing a lot of the driving for the kids this school year.  There are a lot of good reasons for this that I won't get into.

Anyway, Ben usually does the pickup after Sunday school.  His schedule changed at the last minute today, so I went to pick up the kids.  Then, about a minute after I left his schedule changed again such that he'd get home later and wouldn't be able to pick up food for dinner.

We laughed about the timing.  So many things are conspiring against us.

Saturday: eyes

For LEGO group today, we were bringing monster cookies.  I had a few candy eyeballs, but it would have been one small one per cookie.  Joshua was sure that we needed more eyeballs.  After discussing for a while, he said he would come with me if I went to the grocery store to get them and that he would help put them on the cookies.

I didn't want to go, but I did want to spend time with Joshua, so we went.  Ben also needed a few things picked up so it worked well, but it was an extra 45 minutes in the morning that I wasn't planning on.

Friday: blood donation, lunch

I gave blood today.  I just signed up to give the normal whole blood, and that was good because my iron wasn't high enough for power red again.  However, I drank plenty of water so getting the needle in was easy and the blood came out quickly.

Afterwards Betsy and I went out for lunch.  The last time was in late May, so we had all of summer and the beginning of school to get caught up on.  It was a really nice lunch.

Thursday: at second glance

 At first glance, it was a normal day.  

At second glance, it was a pretty good day.  I had lunch with Natalie.  I taught conditional formatting with a new rule, which is one of my favorite subjects.  It lightly rained most of the day.  I belayed with Kristyn and it was a really fun session.  My chicken sandwich for dinner was delicious.  My book is currently great!

My bad part of the day was that Isaac told me he was done climbing at a terrible point in my book.  The main character was about to fight her ex-fiancé in the colosseum.  (Obviously, there is a lot of backstory that I didn't mention.)  We drove home, I put the chicken in the oven, and finished reading the chapter.

Wednesday: trap

Isaac left me a booby trap for when I was grabbing his laundry today.  He was pretty excited about it.

I put all the dice in this bed.  I put a few in his pillow cases.  I hope he finds a few during the night because he didn't get them all out.