Week of Jan 15 (really Jan 17 - Jan 22)

Tuesday was back to school for all but Noah.  It was a super busy morning.  Seth's timeline project was due, but he left it in Katsu's car and so we had to make time for grocery shopping, working out, and going to Katsu's work, catching him between all his student interviews, and get the timeline.  Then, after doing preschool carpool, we dropped the timeline off at school.  Then, we went and picked up Logan's new glasses.  I wish I had gotten a good picture of him.  He has been really good about wearing them - much better than Seth.  At first, he wore them just a bit, but he wears them all the time.  I am worried they are going to get broken quickly - they already got bent a little today when Seth kicked him in the face (sigh) and the warranty only works once for replacement.  But they are cute.  The evening was busy again with a PTA meeting and then Andrew at cub scouts.  They are working on their race cars for the pinewood derby.

Wednesday - boys had tennis, but otherwise, it was a pretty unremarkable day.

Thursday - our first day in quite a while that Logan didn't have a ride to preschool.  So, Noah and I took him and I didn't want to drive back home (it's like a 20 minute drive - nice because it is close to my and Katsu's work, but inconvenient when I have Noah and have to go back home.  So, we drove to the new park downtown and tried it out.  The park was pretty wet with dew, but it was awesome.  Noah wandered around quite a bit, tried a couple slides, but then loved the zip line.  Since there were only a couple other kids there and no one else was interested, he got to ride it over and over for like 45 minutes.  The park is really amazing and makes me feel a little more hopeful for Greenville.  He and I both were coming down with a bad cold (I have it the worst, for sure, though), so I popped him in his stroller and went on a walk on the greenway.  It was the first time I had been on that part of the greenway.  At first, I wasn't sure because it goes through the neighborhood a bit, but then I got on the main part, and it was surprisingly really nice.  There are interpretative signs and long paths and it is just pretty, even for winter.  I was surprised to find out there is Spanish Moss in Greenville - I hadn't seen it before!  Noah fell asleep pretty quickly so I went walking for an hour or more.  It was really nice and relaxing and about all I could manage in terms of a workout with my cold.

We went to Andrew's science olympiad in the afternoon, but then they didn't even really have time to meet with me so it didn't seem worth it.  I don't know if we will go this week or not.  I feel like I am always at school lately.

I had book club in the evening, so I managed to make up some brownies, but no one ended up coming.  Oh, well.  I was planning on just giving up on the whole thing, but several people told me they were sad they couldn't make it, so maybe not.  I had a lot of work to do anyways as did Katsu, so  we had a fun working evening.

Friday - Katsu brought home a pizza because I was just not feeling up to cooking at all, and we were out of flour.  Then, the 3 older boys went to see Alice in Wonderland at ECU.  Katsu said it was okay - I guess they had only 4 actors which he didn't like.  I think the kids liked it.  Then, they went to McDonalds and played chess, I think, until they ended up coming home because they were fighting or something like that.  It was a late night for them.

Saturday - I finally got a chance to go for a run again, which was nice.  I was worried that between missing a week and being sick it would be too hard, but it wasn't too bad.  I think I should still finish the couch to 5k program before our 5k in March, no problem.  Then, I helped the kids pick up and Katsu did the rest of the cleaning (kids cleaned their bathrooms, too), while I went out and bought some new shoes and ran some errands.  Katsu was excited because he officially got his big R01 grant, so he celebrated by getting lots of Chick-Fil-A for all of us for lunch.  Then, we went and all checked out the new park.  Everyone enjoyed it.  I had a birthday dinner for a friend in the evening, so the boys had some homemade Japanese food, played video games, and watched a movie.  Another late night, bu tit was a good day for everyone I think.

Sunday - I really felt under the weather this morning - this cold is just something awful and all the kids but Seth have some mild variation of it, so we stayed home from church (Katsu went to most of it but came home early to get to the airport in time).  Of course, I felt awful, but the boys were only mildly sick and drove me insane today.  Anyday we are all home and don't leave the house the whole day, they are insane.  Constant begging for screens, rough housing, etc.  Totally driving me crazy.  Not a stellar day, but at least they are all asleep now.