Update , May 4 2024

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Saturday

Saturday was a fun day for IL5. First, he, Liz, and I went to Olive Garden together. Liz and I discussed our book club book, and chatted. IL5 built a haunted cave on Minecraft with spooky signs like “I kill you” and “I see you.” It also had rocks that floated and chains and zombies.

I returned to find my 83-year-old dad mowing our lawn – presumably because he heard me say I was going to do it on Wednesday. Which is silly, because I was specifically going to do it on Wednesday so that he didn’t feel like he had to do it. I give up.

I then took IL5 to a playdate at a friend’s house. He loved his friend’s LEGO. It was hard tearing him away to do anything else.

In the evening, Aaron and I won The Night Cage (a cooperative tile-laying boardgame.)

Sunday

Sunday, I worked till late afternoon. Then we all went out to dinner and played a couple games of Unstoppable Unicorns. In the evening, I read to IL5 (I’m only able to read to him 3 days a week now, because he only wants to listen before going to sleep, and he’s started going to sleep later. So I can only read to him when I don’t work in the evening.)

Monday

Monday, I did laundry and went to Home Depot to buy a wheelbarrow wheel replacement. Dad was on a mission to fix that flat. In the evening, I took IL5 to swim lessons.

Tuesday

Tuesday I took D14 to an appointment, which was frustrating, because the practitioner is leaving the clinic, and we’ll need to find another. After the appointment, I spent some time finding someone else, then I packed up Puck and Hero so they could get a distemper booster. Just one more cat to vaccinate, then we can get IL5’s kitten. Part of me regrets not just taking the barn kitten that someone offered. This shelter adopting is a lot of work. The boys were supposed to have baseball, but their practices were cancelled due to rain. So the we all started the second season of Resident Alien.

Wednesday

Wednesday I took dad to his penultimate denture fitting – 3 weeks, and he’ll have teeth! Then I went to meet my new therapist. I’m still feeling frustrated at my other one leaving after 3 appointments, but this one seemed on-task and goal oriented, and also supported my need to use sessions to vent. So maybe it was a good change. The other diagnosed me with “adjustment disorder” after 2 sessions of diagnostic questions, which seems odd since I have both bipolar disorder and generalized anxiety disorder.

After the appointment, I had a lunch date with Aaron, then dug in the raised beds to prepare them for IL5’s vegetable garden. I didn’t quite finish – I have 15 more minutes of work, but my phone was about to die and I was waiting on a call, so I had to go inside. In the evening, I read to D14 for an hour. It’s a fun way to spend quality time.

Thursday

Thursday I had a good game of D&D, and I worked a day shift. It was raining, so baseball was cancelled again. That also meant I wasn’t able to finish digging in the raised beds. In the evening, I played Magic with D14 and M11.

Friday

Friday was great. After speech therapy for IL5, we took advantage of a beautiful day and went to the park with some of his friends. I got to chat with their mom, so it was fun for everyone. Then we went home and he played outside while I finished clearing the raised bed, and planted tomatoes and the watermelon, which got its own raised bed. I still have the carrots and radishes to go. Then the family went to Perkins for dinner.

Week’s Photos

Forgot to put this picture up a couple weeks ago. That is the handle that’s imbeded in the target

Letters Written

One letter Texas
Two letters Maine
One letter Massachusetts

Reading to myself

Mr Ballen podcast
Bluebeard, by Kurt Vonnegut
Maid, by Stephanie Land
Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Bible
Eye of the World, by Robert Jordan

Reading to IL5

Narwhal’s Otter Friend, by Ben Clanton
Dragons and Marshmallows, by Asia Citro

D14 reading

Winter, by Marissa Meyer
Exile, by Shannon Messenger

Media Completed

Zoey has to help a baby dragon when her mom goes on a trip. My 5-year-old loved the story of this little dragon and loved speculating what he would eat. Very good book.