Desk Adventures

Our family is growing up so we've been making some changes around the apartment.  Yesterday I built Bishops new Ikea desk! 

 

It took a few hours and I was pretty exhausted at the end of the day.  But now Bishop has a new homework/ study area!  He's gonna need it for that giant brain of his.  Also....

I can use it as my new blogging space!  There's way less distractions in here.  Marshall is in the living room watching Daniel Tiger while I'm writing. 

Now I just need to organize their book shelf so they can reach all the books they need.  Before the kids would climb on top of the changing table to reach everything.  I placed the desk a few feet away from the bookcase so they don't try to stand on it.  I want this desk to make it to high school at least. 

Janet settled right in.  She didn't even touch the cat bed I bought for her.  Cats are assholes.  That's why they're super cute so we'll put up with their BS.  Just like kids. 

Future Giant

I started my genre short stories last week.  Unfortunately I started with a genre that's not blog appropriate so I can't post it.  I wanted to start with something I could actually show people but my brain was stuck on "I wonder if I could write a romance novel...".   The answer is I don't know because I didn't finish it. 

I think my next story will be in the horror genre.  I think I'd be good at writing horror because everything scares me.  Or maybe I'd be terrible at it because everything scares me.  I'll guess I'll have to try it to figure it out. 

Now that Bishop is in 1st grade, he has PE in school.  His shoes were starting to fall apart so I took him shopping this weekend.  He now has a size 2.  I'm scared for our future food budget.  He already eats like a garbage disposal.  Last night he ate my salmon skin that I didn't want and the rest of Marshall's dinner.  This morning he made himself a sandwich with honey and sprinkles.  He got in trouble for that one and he said it wasn't worth it cause it tasted disgusting.  That's a win-win for me.  It would be awesome if all his misbehavior turned out that badly for him.  That's the dream. 

Of course the downside is now I have to deal with a Bishop who can't play video games.  I'm gonna have to come up with some creative ways for him to earn it back.  Maybe this will a good opportunity to stop all the bickering.  

Conflict

Summer break is over!  I'm so glad it's only 2 months.  I don't know how much more of it I could handle.  Bishop and Marshall's new favorite activity is fighting about everything.  Sometimes they fight for fun, sometimes Marshall makes Bishop mad on purpose and vice versa, and sometimes they're legit mad at each other for reasons that are very hard to figure out.  It's nice that they are now separated 6 hours a day so they have less opportunity to fight and they seem to like each other more when they are together.  I also have more energy now.  I cleaned the whole kitchen on Bishops first day back.  It was super clean for like half a day.  Now I just need to do the whole rest of the apartment! 

The most exciting thing we did this summer was go see Hugh Jackman Live!  It was a great show and you could tell he was having a lot of fun doing it.  We were planning that trip for 9 months.  Everything went smoothly and we went to Santa Cruz the next day because my parents offered to keep the kids an extra day.  So the kids got to bond with Grandma and Grandpa and we got to live like we were dating again.  It was like time travel but better cause we appreciated our time more.  Also it's nice to have an opportunity to miss our kids because we appreciate them more too. 

I've been thinking about what kind of stories I want to write and I might start posting some short stories on this blog.  I tend to think too big scale but I should really start with some small stuff.  I want to try writing at least one story in every genre.  I think that would be a fun exercise.