Monday it was my turn to drive (we rotate Mondays since there’s 4 families in the carpool). I spent most of the day working on production. In the evening Sunshine and I wen to her Court of Honor, but if it hadn’t been a court of honor, we would have skipped it so I could get more work done. I’m …
River thinks he’s too cool for a lot of things these days, including hugs, good smiles, and so on. Ocean doesn’t have a similar issue (yet, hopefully he holds off a few more years since River started this a lot younger than I expected) and is always up for giving his brother a hug. On many occasions at home River …
Monday was Labor Day, so no school or work, thankfully. Jeremy and Sunshine have been under the weather, so an extra day of rest for them was good. Sunshine and I were super happy to have a three day weekend to recover from the first week of seminary. I meant to get up early and get right to work, but …
Ocean, sighing: “When I eat pork I’m tormented” Me, mystified: “Why?” Ocean: “Because pigs are my friends.” (he has a stuffed pig named Oink Oink that is his favorite stuffed animal)
Monday was the first week of seminary. We woke up at 6:30 and I dropped off Sunshine at the carpool location at 6:50. Then I took Max to the trails park for a run. It was a good run, but I intentionally kept it short since I knew I wasn’t physically ready for a longer run, at least if I …
Trying to get a picture of River smiling is a challenge these days. He either grimaces or plasters on an obviously fake smile. Ocean, on the other hand, is still willing to give an easy smile, and has taken it upon himself to “help” his brother smile (or help him off the tree, as in this case).
Monday I got a slow start because of a late night Sunday, but I managed to be pretty productive, getting some computer stuff done. I looked up materials for one of Sunshine’s classes (Shakespeare) then pulled out the cutting dies I bought three months ago but never had time to do anything with. I’m not super happy with the crane …
River, when I asked him which language he wanted to start learning for school: British. Me: Umm, there’s no such language. In Britain they speak English just like we do, just with a different accent and different slang. Him, not completely convinced: Hmmm.
Monday morning the boys slept in, which surprised me since it’s a very rare occurrence. They didn’t wake up till I was in the shower. After my shower, we loaded up and headed out for the final leg of the trip. It was fairly uneventful, though we did run into rain and heavy fog coming around the mountain just past …
During church a few months ago Ocean was drawing a picture of a teenage mutant ninja turtle on daddy’s phone while humming the theme song to TMNT. Unfortunately, he just doesn’t understand how/isn’t able to turn down the volume, so we had to keep shushing him since it was the middle of sacrament meeting. He’s done this with other characters as …
Monday I woke up at 3:15am due to some mild acid reflux. It was enough to wake me up and be painful and make my lungs not feel great, but not bad enough to be super painful or really do a number on my lungs, which has happened in the past. It gave me half an hour to fully wake …
In April I had to do a 24 hour urine collection for my endocrinologist. The kids were all grossed out by the large container that I had to store in the fridge. As I carried the container upstairs for the last addition, Jeremy made a comment about it, then Ocean chimed in with his two cents. Jeremy then asked Ocean …
Monday I got up and paid bills, then did the grocery shopping. I had a number of stops to make, but they didn’t leave me wiped out exhausted, just tired. I also did some much needed decluttering of surfaces in the kitchen and living room. Jeremy and the kids tend to pile things up on whatever available surface is nearest …
We’re fairly sure Ocean has some oppositional defiance stuff going on, and he’s currently struggling to respond appropriately when he gets upset when something doesn’t go how he wants it to. This is not helped when his older brother deliberately antagonizes him, as siblings frequently do. I was talking to River, asking him to support his brother as he tries …
Monday I was up early to leave at 7am to take Sunshine and another YCA from our ward to the stake center an hour away. All the stake adult and youth leaders headed to camp on Monday and will be joined by ward adults and the rest of the youth on Tuesday. Sunshine wasn’t super thrilled about leaving again so …
Max is part cat. She’s very picky about which parts of her body you can touch, and will get up and walk away if you don’t respect her boundaries (no legs, feet, or tails). At the same time, she can be demanding of attention and assumes a regal position as she ‘lets’ you give her rubs and loves. She’s also …
Monday the boys and I took Sunshine to Williamsburg for FSY. It was held at the College of William and Mary, which was annoying to navigate since the campus had too many one way streets and very little parking. Other than that, it was an uneventful trip there and back. Tuesday I took the boys to music lessons and River …
Screenshot of a video I took of Ocean, which I still haven’t figured out how to upload on this site yet. I’m sure there’s an app for it, but I don’t have time to look into right- too many other things to do right now. Anyway, he’d come in to my room while I was laying in bed sick and …
Monday I felt much better than I did on Sunday, though still not great. I went to Scouts in the evening to hand off the health forms for Scout camp. Tuesday I felt better, but the anesthesia from getting my loose filling fixed took me down a few notches in the afternoon. On the plus side, there wasn’t massive decay …
I was walking out to the car and I looked to the side and saw the view pictured above, which startled me. I walked closer and realized that it wasn’t a ghost, it was Buddy, Jeremy’s brother’s dog, just hanging out in the passenger seat of the RV, staring at passersby.
