30 September 2024

 Yesterday morning Rosebud was getting ready for school and she came into the kitchen to show me that if she took her folded pair of socks apart a certain way, she could shoot one of the socks at me.  She found this very funny!

Mr. Brown and I have commented to each other what a different childhood she and D are having, compared to Rose Pink and Nut Brown.  We see so much less of both of them.

29 September 2024

Sunday afternoon. All three of them reading, and D is also talking to himself as he reads.

22 September 2024

 

We went to pick apples for the first time this season (yum yum yum) and are enjoying the fruits of our twenty minutes of labor. Fresh apples are so good! It is so nice to live somewhere that has apples again. We missed them sorely after we left Michigan.

Rosebud was very interested in the way that the apples polished up. She created an "apple spa" in my bedroom (because I was reading the bedroom and she wanted to hang out with me) where the apples were massaged and took baths and so on. She named them all too.  She doesn't play like this very often, so it was definitely fun to see.

Saturday Nut Brown and I spent time on driving practice getting ready for his road test. We went to the library to pick up books and practice parking and found that they had some extraordinary guests: 

It seems they had a mini con going on, with costume contests and tabletop games and miniature painting and video games... Busy day and looked like tons of fun.

Nut Brown practiced his three point turns in the parking lot by backing into the spaces between parked cars. He was careful and thorough and it was very boring for me.  Good time together with him. I enjoyed hanging out with him. He is so cool, and funny, and thoughtful.

After stake conference this morning, Mr. Brown organized an impromptu potluck at our friends' house.  We all brought what we were going to have for dinner anyway, and ate together on their patio. Very satisfying.  (Photo is Nut Brown with his buddy Elijah) At one point D and his friend Aaron came flying back out of the woods up to the patio and told us they'd been attacked by some kind of bug. When we pressed for details, D said, well, there was this thing in a tree and we were throwing rocks at it, and when we hit it, a bunch of bugs came out of it and attacked us! Fortunately he only had two stings and Aaron only had one!!

19 September 2024

Rosebud came home and school with a project that identified two personal character traits: independent and thankful. I wasn't surprised about "thankful" but I was a little surprised about "independent". When I asked her about it, she explained that she doesn't like the teacher to help her because the teacher is so slow, and she finds that frustrating. That made sense, because this is her main complaint about school, that it is so boring!

15 September 2024

 Last Saturday Nut Brown and I were driving home from his driver's training and I decided to stop at a place that said that they sold eggs. When we pulled in, we discovered that there was actually a small festival going on there, with a sunflower maze. So we paid our entry fees and wandered the maze.

We found the TARDIS refrigerator in the back corner. Alas, it had no eggs.

When headed home, Nut Brown said, that was nice. Nice to do something a little different today.

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14 September 2024

D found some interesting packing materials and just spent an hour telling me a story based around them and the different shapes he could make with them. It involved archaeology, runes, a space kraken, magic and quasars.

Current phrase of the month: pheoretical thysics.

9 September 2024

Mr. Brown and Nut Brown helping our friends practice dancing.  Getting ready for a youth dance.

There was also game action happening on the floor that evening.  

 

7 September 2024

 

The psychiatrist adjusted my medications and I'm interested in gardening again. Mr. Brown took me to the store and let me buy a bunch of flowers for the front yard. Happy happy! I'm very glad to be feeling again!

3 September 2024

This last week has been a blizzard of preparations for school and anxiety about school. We attended three open houses to meet all the teachers and make sure everyone could find all necessary classrooms and lockers. We acquired the required supplies (and put Rosebud's name on all of hers). We tried to remember what time we got up in the morning and when each kid leaves the house so we could set all the alarms. We laid in supplies for lunches (Nut Brown and D) and snacks (Rosebud).

Everyone made it out the door on time! Rosebud caught the bus! No one forgot their backpack!

Best and worst of the day:

Rosebud - best: her teacher is nice! Worst: one of her friends from last year is in her class but totally ignored her when she tried to say hi.

D - best: found a dead frog on his way to school. Worst: only one and a half classes with his best buddy Kieran.

Nut Brown - best: his groups in pre-calculus and culinary are cool and he anticipates a good time with them through the year. Worst: he remembered his backpack but didn't actually put anything in it. No lunchbox, no notebooks, no pencils. Fortunately there was a random pencil in the cupholder and a graph paper notebook left in it (from last year?). However, zero lunch was had. And he'd skipped breakfast to finish packing his backpack!

Overall, I think we're off to a good start.