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Flashback Friday

Friday, May 29th, 2020

I really miss baseball games in May.  The weather has warmed up, and the season is in full swing.  Not this year, obviously. But here are some pictures from Mays past… Thumper’s first baseball game was on Memorial Day in 2013. There have been Star Wars games on May the 4th.  This one was from […]



Book Club Time

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

I am trying to make sure that the boys keep up on their individual reading time.  Rerun has been reading the Harry Potter series since last summer (with the help of Audible), and I finally twisted Tad’s arm into reading the books once the official website started their “Harry Potter At Home” series with celebrities […]



Floor Pac-Man

Wednesday, May 27th, 2020

The kids know the rules.  Even with “online school,” the house rule of “no console-style video games” still applies.  The rule USED to be “no Xbox at all except on weekends” but that got amended to let the kids use the Kinect on rainy days when they can’t play outside. So Rerun built his own […]



Kids Say Very Funny Things On Zoom

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

I warned the kids.  We had to cram all of Monday’s meetings into Tuesday, but we still have all the Tuesday meetings.  It made for a very very VERY full day. But there were two hilarious moments during the morning Zoom meetings that definitely lightened my mood. The first one was from Rerun’s 4th grade […]