Month: May 2020

The exciting news this week is that the beach is open again. We aren’t allowed to sit, but we can swim, walk and run. Eleanor and I decided to give it a try this weekend and it was glorious. You had to really work to keep your distance in the water, but the water temperature…

This week we celebrated Mother’s Day with a quiet day at home, capped by a friendly game of Sorry. The kids also made a zoo out of Lego Duplos – they have always been more creative with the larger duplos, and I have to say the zoo was pretty neat. It even included its own…

This week we celebrated Monkey’s birthday with a celebratory doughnut. We actually had lots of treats this week, including cinnamon rolls and crescent rolls. We also moved Henry’s desk area down into the Lego room, so that he would have some more privacy, which I think he really appreciated. We also figured out how to…

This week we had some unknown animal visit our backyard and destroy all five balls that were in the backyard. How strange! Henry was really bummed out because he had just developed a game using all of those balls – and Dad was left wondering what type of creature did the damage? I wish we…