Friday: better

Today went better.  We drew "read some new books" and "clean window sils" from the jar.

Isaac was rather excited about the books...a bit surprisingly so.  He read them with breakfast.  Joshua went down for a nice long nap, and we spent some time reading them.  (And then I had time to clean the kitchen!)

We had lunch with Dad.  It was nice.  We got home and had rest time.  Isaac didn't nap again, and it was a bit obvious.  Oh well.  We took a ride to the mini library at the end of the street and got a few books, which we also read.  Apparently it was a reading sort of day.  It's good to have those because some days we don't get any reading in.

Isaac then thought that Joshua wanted to play balloons with him while I finished the windows.  It was nice.  I peeked in a few times and they were having fun.  1) the balloon room has probably been the best activity so far and 2) I love it when they play together.

Ben got home rather late, but then I made dinner even later by trying a new recipe.  It called for about 15 minutes on the grill, but it took way longer to get the internal temperature correct.  It was rather good though; I expect we'll do it again.  Especially since I still have about three dinners of tenderloin frozen.