Thursday: Fort Wayne

 Welcome to spring break... For the kids. 

Let's back up.  Ben and I had lunch today and it was really nice.  I got quite a bit of work done afterwards too, and that doesn't always happen in the afternoon. 

Ok.  Then I picked up Joshua, who doesn't think spring break starts until tomorrow.  Then I picked up Isaac, who had to wait for his teacher longer than he wanted and was a bit grumpy about it.  After a brief stint at home I dropped Isaac off at Rock climbing, went to the library, and then to karate.  I picked up Isaac, made him eat faster than normal, and we went to pick up Joshua from piano.  Phew.  I usually don't deal with piano, but otherwise it was a normal Thursday.  From piano we drove to Fort Wayne!

With the exception of I94, traffic was pretty light.  As I pulled off the highway I noticed a funny sound.  I've heard this sound before and last time my lug nuts were loose.  It acts really funny.  When I accelerate or brake there's no sound, but when I'm coasting there's a rattle.  Nathan reminded me that I had a lug wrench in the car, and we proceeded to check all the lug nuts.  Yup!  One wheel had several loose.  Not really dangerously loose, but not as tight as they should be, either. 

Nathan and I stayed up too late talking.  But the first night is always the best for catching up and I don't regret it, although I'm not the one who had to work tomorrow.

Sunday/Monday: life

Last night we were all watching a show with dinner and a large object was dropping into place.  You can hear it, right?  A booming *thunk*.  Well, a thunderstorm was going on outside at the same time and the thunder rolled at the exact same time as the large object dropped into place.  We all laughed because the timing was amazing.

Today was a pretty normal day, all said.  I was rather productive and got a bunch done, but not quite as much as I was hoping for.  As normal, as I walk through the house I see all these other little things that need to be done.  Sometimes I ignore them, but today I did several of them.  Individually they don't take much time, but together they do.

Saturday: life

It was a relatively normal Saturday.  Legos in the morning.  We did family game in the morning.  It was my turn to choose the game, so I choose one we had given to Joshua but that he didn't enjoy on the first play through.  I really thought that he was going to enjoy it, so I wanted him to give it another chance.  He said that he enjoyed it a lot better this time.

After lunch we went to the school play.  The students did a nice job and you could hear most of them, but at the same time the play was only ok.  We all agreed that last year's was better.  I'm hoping that Joshua will be interested in crew next year.

I've said it before this week but I'll say it again: I'm tired.  My brain is busier than normal this week and while I can get to sleep, if I wake up at the wrong time I'm awake.  I think I'll go to bed soon, which is earlier than normal.

Friday: hotel

Last night we, although mostly Ben, was working on some hotel reservations.  The hotel declined our credit card (multiple times, even after texting/emailing to confirm it wasn't fraud).  We tried the other credit card - same thing.  Ben eventually called the first credit card company, got it all sorted out, and got them reserved.

I got a call from the second card in the morning - is this fraud?  I called them back and got to talk to a real person and the conversation went a bit like this:
A: I just got a call about fraud but I'm pretty sure it was me and not fraud
Rep: what you were trying to purchase?
A: a hotel room in location
Rep: Oh!  Wow!  It was actually true.  A few months ago we had a whole bunch of fraudulent hotel charges from [that hotel or that location (I can't remember which)].

How weird is that.

Thursday: sleep

I woke up around 5am this morning.  It was far enough through the night it was somewhat close to wake-up time, so when my mind started going a mile a minute there was no getting back to sleep.

Like every Thursday, there is a lot of ferrying children around.  There was some extra waiting today and it was a bit annoying.  Oh well.  Everyone got where they needed to be.

Wednesday: pinewood derby

Today was a bit of a whirlwind.  I was expecting it though, so that did help.  Oddly enough, during my errands I often noticed how comfy my socks were and then I remembered they were new.  

Joshua had pinewood derby tonight.  His goal was to get the turtle award, which is the slowest car out of all the cadets.  He tried last year too and didn't quite get it.  This year he got it in spades.  His first two runs didn't even make it to the finish line, and then I think they made him loosen his tires.  The last run made it down, but it was still the slowest time that I saw.  He was very excited.

Tuesday: busy

Oh, it was a busy day today.  Work was a good busy.  When I brought the kids home though it got crazy.  It felt like everyone needed me and I was trying to get some of my own stuff accomplished.  Then a meeting.  Then dinner.  Then a bit more work...fun work, but work nevertheless.

I'm starting to wind down, finally.