Remember that movie Groundhog Day? After watching it, I vowed to never watch it again. It was excruciating. That 6:00AM alarm clock? The Sonny and Cher “I Got You Babe” soundtrack? I remembered him jumping off a building, but I couldn’t remember what it was that broke the curse. After…
Yesterday James made a delicious new dinner we’ve never had before. Picture a beautiful pool of lemony hollandaise sauce surrounding salmon, grilled asparagus, and a perfectly poached egg balanced on top. It was Easter brunch for dinner. Spring on a plate. Mwoi– Fingertip kiss. Jacob hated it. Oh the wailing and…
Honestly, even at the end of yesterday I wasn’t entirely sure what happened yesterday. I woke-up. I started work at 7:30AM. I worked almost non-stop. I ate lunch. The boys started 1:00 Zoom Recess. I went back to the barn. I came home from work (across the yard). Jacob’s Dr.…
Yesterday it was Monday again. I returned to my office in the barn and the realities of a business where all of our customers have shuttered their doors. The boys started remote learning at the grand opening of Dining Table Elementary. They’re using Google Classroom to get assignments that only…
This morning I went to Trader Joe’s and found a line. Outside. Each person was carefully waiting six feet behind the next. They were only letting us in as someone else exited. It made shopping at Trader Joe’s feel as spacious as a normal store. Thankfully, they’d overstocked the shelves,…
Yesterday the boys did a new Black Panther YouTube workout. They yelled, “Mom, Mom come here! Black Panther is fat!” Of course I came running. I’m proud to report that Black Panther was simply promoting realistic body images for little boys. Mid-morning, I did my first streaming class with my…
It’s been one week since Friday the 13th. Things are very, very different just one week in. We’re sheltering-in-place. Work is really stressful. I mostly live in my new office in the barn. James is Chief Learning Officer. The boys have to run laps across the yard and around the…
The days really start to run together if you don’t write them down in some way. Now we know why certain retired grandparents are expecting weekend-level responsiveness on Tuesdays. Yesterday I started the day with conference calls on the Bob Jones. My key fob was nearly dead. Just twenty-five pulls of…
Today I woke up early to the sound of a lot of heavy equipment coming up our hill. It was just our neighbor Julian. But then around 8, more heavy equipment showed-up. And it parked in our driveway. James got a little hot under the collar. Seems the tree trimmers…
Yesterday the boys went on a walk on the Bob Jones. They took the football and ran into Coach Tom from the Chiefs. Apparently Nate gunned the football over Jake’s head into a thicket of poison oak. Jake went in, since he seems impervious to this poisonous plant, despite his…