06/18/2012

1.  Monday and no lessons!  We kept ourselves busy, anyway.  We cleaned up the house a little bit after the weekend.  Mosey had tae kwon do.  He is loving it during the summer because there are a lot of other kids in the summer classes.  I'm so happy that he likes TKD.  He also got his level 1 blue belt today!  Good job, Mosey.  I worked on getting the sinks put back together.  The boys all did their practicing. 

2.  We also had our first fist-fight of the summer...  :-(  Joseph and Brigham duked it out over accusations that the other left the cereal box outside.  Yes, it really was about that.  Brigham is my most willing clean-up helper, and so consequently believes (rightly, to a certain extent) that he lceans up more than his brothers do.  So when earlier in the day he had brought the cereal box inside to put it away, and then he couldn't find it, and then realized it was BACK outside, he was very frustrated.  I understand.  Anyway, Brigham accused Joseph of leaving it outside.  Then Joseph counterattacked and accused Brigham of taking it outside.  Then Brigham swung at Joseph and ended up knocking out one of Joseph's teeth!  Luckily it was only a molar that really needed to come out anyway.  Joseph retaliated using his fingernails (I need to tell him that if the fingernails get used in ONE more fight, they are getting trimmed down to the quick), and within seconds both the boys were screaming bloody murder.  Mosey got scared and ran inside and told me about it.  I went outside to break it up, and it turned out that MOSEY was the one who accidentally left the cereal box outside.  So Joseph and Brigham fought over pretty much nothing.  Mosey felt very bad, I could tell.  I sent the big boys to different rooms to cool off.  Mosey made hot chocolate (just the thing on a 97 degree day, wouldn't you say?) for both of his brothers, and in not so long a time, they were all friends again.  I sure do hate fighting amongst my children.

3.  The handyman came again in the evening and he got all the sinks functioning perfectly.  And he worked with Ben to take the microwave down to replace with a non-broken one.  But, since nothing can be simple, it turns out the screws that came with the new microwave are not long enough to make it through the wood support above the countertop.  And the ones that were part of the old microwave didn't have the correct thread.  We went to Lowes, who didn't carry that particular screw, and decided to forget about the screws and try to order them online.  So now we have no functioning microwave, and a gaping hole in the wall where you can see the lovely wall paper that someone, somewhere, at some time thought would be a nice addition to the kitchen.  :-)