5:30 a.m. – whhyyyyyyy am i awake?

6:30ish a.m. – Miss W is ready for Science with Granny day.

7:30 maybe? – it’s flipping hailing.

8:30 a.m. – sorting this box of books donated by graduating Medallion Scholars. it’s a tradition.

9:30 a.m. – trying to find the motivation to deal with this mess.

10:30 a.m. – i haven’t been walking on my breaks because plantar fasciitis in both feet. and it’s been awful trying to get them healed up for the last several months. still not 100%, but tired of feeling like a lump. so i went for a walk and it was awesome. (when did i get so old and boring?)

11:30 a.m. – someone has been doing madlibs and that someone is not me.

12:30 p.m. – lunch zen: twin peaks and knitting.

1:30 p.m. – the temperature is falling and it’s starting to rain.

2:30 p.m. – i went next door to find a snack. this photo feels so depressingly institutional to me today.

3:30 p.m. – i’ve been reading this book for months.

4:30 p.m. – why. isn’t. it. five. o’clock. yet.

5:00 p.m. – Miss W made some cool art studying patterns in science and art and math and things. decalcomania.

6:00 p.m. – almost home.

7:00 p.m. dinner with this wee beastie. (he was trying very hard to say cheese.)

8:00 p.m. – evening zen.

9 p.m. – sleep is for suckers.

10:00 p.m. – a low light rear camera poor quality goodnight, chickens.

8 a.m. – slept late thanks to a combination of migraine meds and exhaustion. could have slept even longer, to be honest.

9 a.m. – hearthsits with Stormageddon. the light in here is awful.

10 a.m. – thinking about leaving the house. i kinda miss the constant rain and gloom of the last two days. i’m sure that doesn’t surprise you.

11ish and noonish – to the salon, which is on the lake (and how’s that for an office view every day? sheesh!) to get Miss W a very badly needed trim.

1 p.m. – there comes a time on a sunny spring day when a girl needs an apple fritter and a cuppa. so she does.

3 p.m. – dunno what i was doing at 2 because i failed to take a picture of it.

4 p.m. – trying to talk this little cutie into going outside, but watching Monsters, Inc. in your diaper is evidently way more appealing.

5 p.m. – he finally remembered that he loves being outside.

6 p.m. – ISO a chicken sammich.

7 p.m. – a little McMilne shawl zen.

8 p.m. – sunset on the Compound.

also 8ish p.m. my phone tried to upload two photos at once and this max headroom meets the fly image meld happened and it’s kind of awesome.

9 p.m. – the Tick grins on as I battle an internet that decided this week that we’re only allowed to visit the sites it has deemed acceptable. like sites that are not netflix or ravelry or other very important locations. Spoon!

10 p.m. – good night from me and my enormous hand.

5:30 a.m. the score is still Q to 12. i accidentally got up 10 minutes earlier than i needed to. i guess that tells you what kind of day i’ll be having.

6:30 a.m. or thereabouts. campus. i like it when it’s quiet.

7:30 a.m. one of my awesome student staff brought me a thank you card and chocolate bunny in appreciation for all the fun student staff appreciation week stuff. i love my student staff.

10:00 a.m. i was in a very long meeting. but here’s a photo of my name on my “door”. i’ve never had that before. so i got that goin’ for me i guess. i know it’s crooked. the one they sent me monday was curved. they had misspelled my name in the one before that. i give up.

noon i just forgot to do an 11. so you go straight to lunch. turkey and murder mysteries.

1:00 p.m. lunch is over and now i have to go back to work. sigh.

2:00 p.m. i don’t know why you keep coming back here. i’m so boring.

3:00 p.m. professional development.

4:00 p.m. it’s a very gloomy day.

5:00 p.m. time to teach.

7:30 p.m. time to go home.

8:30 p.m. it’s a pocket! or at least it’s going to be.

9:30 p.m. is a good time to have tea and toast because you’re fighting a migraine and it’s at least partly because you didn’t really have dinner on account of you had to teach.

10 something p.m. this is where i’dve posted the standard pic of me saying goodnight, but i straight up forgot on account of said migraine and migraine drugs. So sorry.

saturday:8:30 a.m. ish. i slept super late, powered by migraine meds and a mostly quiet Stormageddon. upon waking, my head was entirely pain free for a whole entire 5 minutes. it was a glorious 5 minutes, let me tell you.

9:30 a.m. tea. you have coffee. i have french breakfast.

10:30 a.m. he’s disgusted with me because i told him to quit climbing on the table. worst. mom. ever.

11:30 a.m. – i just realized i’m working on two different shannon cook patterns. laylow shawl, which is one of my favorite gift knits (right), and the timber cardigan, which i’m making for myself because it looks like the kind of cardigan you just live in, and also i could use a nice brown cardigan (left). i just love her patterns.

12:30 p.m. – cleaning toddler off the refrigerator. just in case you thought all i did was read and knit.

1:30 p.m. – the mail was profoundly disappointing. sigh.

2:30 p.m. – laundry, abstracted.

3:30 p.m. – i finally have time to read this book. i bought it for my mother in law when it came out – she was a big fan of GWB – and i sort of inherited it when she left us. i’ve been wanting to read it for a while. later, Stormageddon came and took it away from me. he replaced it with this (proof that i am clearly raising my children right):

sunday:3 p.m. – i can’t believe i still haven’t felt a sudden desperate need to dye my hair. i can’t believe i’m still feeling this good about growing it out.

4 p.m. – i’m so flippin’ tired of winter.

5 p.m. – i am not cooking this dinner.

monday:3 something p.m. – some much needed zen. plus also this thing is getting so close to done, which makes me happy.

5 something p.m. – i’m driving home and it isn’t dark!

7 p.m. – homeschool life = science, scribbles, and snazzy hats.

somewhere around 9 p.m. – we’re never going to sleep. that’s fun for everyone but mom.