Onedayhh 2021

Every year Laura Tremaine at 10 Things to Tell You hosts One Day Hour by Hour.  The idea is to record the mundane events of a random day in your life, once a year.  She gives a convincing defense of the practice here.  

Your regular day may feel super normal to you right now, but I promise that in just a few years it will look different.

See my OneDayHH 2020 here.

OneDayHH 2021:  Tuesday, November 9.

Like last year, I wake up early to read my Bible and pray on the fuzzy bath mat, so I can turn on the bright light (to wake up) without waking Jason.  I’m taking notes through Kings at the moment.

I suit up to take a run.  Sunday we went back to normal time so it’s a lot lighter in the mornings now.

Lizzy shares a sticker with everybody at the beginning of the school day.

Bunny breakfast

I’m reading Dangerous Journey to Caleb right now—a beautifully-illustrated adaptation of Pilgrim’s Progress.

Every other week, Caleb copies science definitions—for example, this week: “Solute.”

He also gets sheets of math problems I copy out for him.

Lizzy is learning to diagram sentences.

This week Lizzy and Ada did the experiment where you drip rubbing alcohol onto marker on a coffee filter and the colors are supposed to separate out.

Then they fill out their lab report in their books.

Disappointingly, we chose colors that have homogenous molecules, meaning there are no separate colors.

The kids are working through their Halloween candy, using the digital food scale to measure their predetermined allowed amount after meals.

Ada is starting to work on Christmas music, which is really nice.

Sometimes after lunch I’m waiting for someone to finish up some assignment so I can check it for them.  I try to keep up with the news—and, especially, the cryptoquotes and crossword puzzles, while I wait.  A tall cup of coffee makes it all the better.

Talking Ada through her logic lesson (“Frequency Analysis”) over a cup of apple cinnamon tea.

I also need to do a fair amount of reading to keep up with the girl’s book reports.  Sometimes it’s more challenging (unabridged Paradise Lost) than others (picture books of fairy tales).

After school, I need to get a walk in pretty early if I don’t want to be walking in the dark.

It being Thanksgiving month, this particular night I bought prepackaged turkey and gravy and served turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce.

I also made fried haddock.  Because delicious.  And brain food.  And the pilgrims probably ate stuff like that too.

Making breakfast casserole for the morning

Clean-up crew.

The kids like to do everything on the hoverboard.  Empty the dishwasher, eat lunch, count out their Halloween candy, sweep the floor…

Not having any pumpkin pie to cap off my delicious Thanksgiving-leftover dinner, I instead finished the last piece of a pumpkin/applesauce/baked oatmeal dish we regularly make for breakfast that we call Happily Appily.

When work is done, puzzle (and sometimes even when it isn’t).

School is done, bellies are fed, 10,000 steps are taken, breakfast and lunch are made for tomorrow, laundry is folded, and it’s time to get ready for bed.