Things

Monday someone on FB was giving away a little pop up tent and I managed to snap it up. It is now obnoxiously taking up space in my living room but Ruby loves it. She also got a Peppa Pig House from Grace so she loves to sit in her little tent and play with her Peppa Pig House. 

Tuesday Tyler was off for Veterans Day. He was able to work on the bathroom for most of the day and got the flooring mostly done and the shower finished. We now have two showers again! Meanwhile Ruby and I had the exciting task of dusting all the upstairs lego shelves. It's amazing how quickly those gather dust. After I picked up the girls from school that afternoon, we dropped by Home Depot to get a couple things for Tyler. The aisle we needed to access was blocked because there was a man on a lift doing something. He gestured that we could come in the aisle but I felt very rebellious unhooking the chain to get in and then I had to awkwardly shimmy by his lift. Home Depot is just not my favorite place. Also Tuesday, I picked up some snow boots for Ruby off of FB marketplace because she has outgrown hers from last season. They are super ugly but she loves them because they are baby shark and they light up. She wants to wear them always.

Wednesday morning Penny had an appointment to check out her arm. It was a quick appointment. They took an xray of her arm and everything has healed nicely so the next step will be to take the rods out of her arm. Thankfully they will not just pull them out in the office (a horror story a friend told me) but she will need to go to the hospital for an outpatient appointment to get them out. They are aiming to do the appointment in the beginning of December so she can be all healed by Christmas. I just want it done before the end of the year so we don't start a new insurance year and have to pay a bazillion dollars.

Wednesday afternoon I discoverd a plethora a gnats in the boys doorway- they had been making a return in our house again. Turns out they were originating for Mariah's cage. Steven does not clean it out nearly enough so we did a major cleaning. Why is it always the boys room that gives me so much grief? I worry they will not survive when they don't have a mother to clean up after them. They don't seem to care much about having bugs in their room.

Wednesday evening Lucy had her second volleyball game. I wasn't able to go because I was home with Ruby. I am not a fan of these 8pm games. Tyler said Lucy played really well but a lot of other members on her team were not playing so great so they lost, badly.

Thursday night, Lucy, Penny and I had an activity at the church. It was combined RS and YW (&future YW) activity. The food was really yummy. Melissa was there for like 30 minutes- long enough to complain to everyone about her son getting falsely accused of cheating- and the she left. But that was Ok, I was kind of relieved when she left. There's always drama with her. I was happy to socialize with Mandi, Naoka and Sandra instead. After the food they had 4 people talk about the temple. They each gave what felt like church talks and it lasted about 50 minutes. Far too long for a Thursday night. By the time the talks were done, I was done and ready to go home but there was still a craft. The girls enjoyed the craft but I did not feel like it. I am glad that despite all the talking and the fact that most of the adults ignored the girls, they had a good time hanging together.

Friday morning we had our homeschool co-op. Ruby was feeling extra mean that morning and was constantly taking toys from Addie and Asher. She was a bit of a monster. Our centers didn't end up being big hits with the toddlers- the turkey theme was a bit of a bust- so mostly the toddlers fought over things and made messes. Afterwards Julie and I were on clean up duty so we took care of that as fast as we could so we could just go home. We have one more session to attend in December and then we will be done with this co-op. It just wasn't a good fit for us. The girls still didn't connect with anyone and they found the classes boring. It is nice that Ruby got some social but it's not worth the efforts.

Friday night the girls had a sleepover with some girls from the Ward. While they were away, Ben and I watched "Black Phone" It has too much bad language and violence and I am probably a bad parent for letting him watch it but... the storyline is good and I like the way things work out in the end.

Saturday Tyler was able to work on the bathroom some more and he got the toilet installed! I am so glad we have 2 working toilets again! Only thing left to install is the bathroom sink and then we will have a fully functioning bathroom. Also on Saturday Ben had another soccer game. His team is definitely an under dog and they really need some sort of miraculous coaching to pull them around because they lost 11 to 1. The other teamed scored like 7 goals in the first 15 minutes and then it got a little bit better until the other team got their final 4 goals in the end. It was hard to watch but Ben is really enjoying these low pressure games where he actually gets to play so that makes me happy.