July 9, 2026- Thursday

 Well the things I bought on my late night trip to Home Depot ended up not being the best purchases as I got mortar so we could finish the wall but the only one I could find was quick drying...I now understand what that means. We did not get very far on the wall as the mortar dried very quickly and we have a big chunk of cement but now I know. That could be handy one day. While Alden, Benson and Evan worked on getting what they could out of the chunk of cement I took Calvin with me to the store to buy more wood to finish up the sides and door for under the slide. Calvin was very helpful and a great one to take. He lifted all of the heavy mortar and helped me get the big wood into the van.

We came home and jumped in the pool as everyone else was getting out, we then headed to the library as I told someone I would pick up some curriculum at 11. We then got our summer reading prizes and free lunch they were handing out as you left the library.

At 2 we had the three boys that come for lessons and then I had the whole afternoon open. I worked on the cubbies in the school room and started looking up music for orchestra while the kids watched their movie. The tale of Despero. When it was over it was time for Alden to eat to get to robotics, but then I realized that we had to leave as well to get Calvin to track, it was 45 minutes away so we had to leave early. Once there we couldn't find his group so we ended up not going but went to the water gardens that was right by. It was nice to take the kids there and on our way we listened to the Amazing Generation, which was a great book! So at least the trip wasn't a complete failure of a trip. 

Joys of today would be the book and insights I got from it and cleaning my nightstand. It has had piles of things for some time, nice to see the bottom of it and also went through seeing the many sweet notes my children have given me. Pictured is the ones from Benson on mother's Day. They were all in a little jar that had a ribbon around it, I decided I couldn't keep the jar so decided to just take a picture of all of the nice notes he made. Benson is quite good at remembering to say thanks and at being thankful to others and what they do.





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