On Monday of this week, June fifteenth, Day 94 of lockdown, we added a new crisis to the global-health-economic-meltdown-social-justice list: wildfire. That afternoon, I’m working in the barn, Jacob’s just finishing his last College for Kids class of the day, Nate’s at soccer camp in AG, and James is at…
It sounds crazy town when I say the boys don’t fight. With each other. I have never once heard my children call each other buttface, which is something my own mother could never claim. Now with us there is still plenty of sass, particularly Nate’s response to every request with the…
On Friday afternoon I got an email from UK International announcing there were still spots left in their Arroyo Grande Safe Soccer Camp. No marketing email in the history of marketing emails has ever proven such perfect attribution and immediate behavioral action. I started signing my children up for any…
Ever since the new lawn went in I’ve been basking. That basically looks like me stumbling out of the barn in the evening with the Zoom flu, and laying on the artificial grass, basking in the sun. During the first week Jacob caught a lizard and then lulled it into…
Back in the days after Friday the 13th, the emails started. School’s closed. Work’s closed. Life’s closed. The hardest ones were the Camp’s closed. Jacob was heart-broken when I had to break the news about the new and exciting virtual Cuesta College for Kids! He wasn’t having it… though he’s come around.…
When the boys were little, their feet were square. Pudgy blocks on the ends of pudgy blocks for legs. It’s no wonder they couldn’t reliably stand. Getting shoes on their fat little feet cubes was an effective alternative to going to the gym. At some point their feet started growing…
On Tuesday of this week, we picked-up Chinese food and broke quarantine for a rare evening with Papa and Uncle B in Los Osos. Jacob was hell-bent on a lively game of Fucillo Family Monopoly. Now I’m fairly certain I haven’t played Jake in Monopoly since he was six. All…
The best thing that happened to me today was catching-up with Jennifer Anne on my walk to the beach. And Raven on my walk back.
Jacob and I are in a strongly committed reading relationship. Every morning and every night we read stories and it is so very special. According to my iPad library, we’ve read 51 books since we moved to SLO in June of 2016. We’re currently reading the latest in the Rick Riordan series…
Last night was a Nate night. He’s got a low tolerance for cabin fever. Generally the first one to start acting loopy. He dances around. He can’t seem to focus. The potty talk’s up. The listening is down. His mood swings are steeper than a bad Coronavirus curve. Too soon? So last…