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January 31, 2020

Flashback Friday

3:31am

The Super Bowl is this Sunday – and it will be six whole years since the Seahawks won it.

That was a fun, fun game.

Anyway, go Chiefs – not because I have any real loyalty to your team.  I just can’t stand the 49ers.


January 30, 2020

Shopping With Boys

8:14pm

The shopping trip started off well enough…

However, things took a strange turn when Rerun needed to go to the bathroom.

Tad went with him and stood outside the door. At some point near the end of the bathroom usage, there was a loud CRASH.  Rerun screamed. The glass vase, holding a bouquet of fresh flowers, lay broken all over the floor. It is an open question whether Rerun caused this crash at all – he insists he never touched it.

As I tried to calm him down, and workers close off the bathroom to clean up the glass, Rerun sobbed out “I’M GOING TO BE ARRESTED!!!” This is caused by the completely coincidental appearance of two uniformed police officers, who had been parked outside when we came in, who were just randomly picking up a few snack items/salads before heading out.  Rerun was uncontrollably crying at this point, and hid under the cart basket as I pushed it around, his wailing making it easy to track us throughout the entire store.

During this time, Tad was trying to console him with random platitudes. And when I say “random,” I mean Tad is saying things like, “it’s okay, Rerun, sharing is caring” at which point I absolutely lost it.  Then Tad also looked at me and said, “I think Rerun needs a hobby.”

Me: “TAD STOP TALKING.  You are the king of non sequiters!!!”

Tad: “I have plenty of sequiters!”

On my way out of the store, having nearly broken a rib from trying to keep it all in, I called the Webmaster, told him the whole story, and laughed so hard I was crying in the parking lot.  This is our life – broken glass, Drax-like comments, and hysterics for all.


January 29, 2020

Art Of The Week – Owl Collage Painting

3:10pm

This piece from art class took a couple of weeks to finish, but I love how it looks!

Tad spent the first week gluing leftover pieces of scrapbook paper to the canvas, and then once the background was in place and dry, painting the barn owl and the whole scene on top of it.

The texture and depth that the scrapbook paper gives the final piece is pretty amazing, if you ask me!


January 28, 2020

Cooking Lessons For Tad

8:28pm

The kids had a day off school yesterday (this seems to be the story of our January Mondays), and since I was home and his therapist Leigh was available, Tad had an lunch therapy session which included… learning to make his own grilled cheese sandwiches.

This was a big deal because up until now, Tad has only cooked with the toaster oven or the microwave.

He got the hang of it fairly quickly, and while supervision is still going to be needed for a while, I think he got off to a very good start.  And his brothers appreciated the fact that he had made lunch for them.