Marceline and I sometimes draw together instead of reading before bed. She’s getting creative. Tonight we drew monsters. I think hers are better than mine.
Favorite Footprint
I saw this Saturday afternoon.
Our girls like playing with chalk and making drawings all over. One of them, with wet feet, must have walked through it leaving this perfect footprint.
I needed to capture it before the rain erased it. It’s something I could see framing and putting on the wall in the near future.
Lately
I don’t have a lot to write lately. Which is crazy because I should. Because i am busy. Ridiculously busy.
But between reading, taking care of the girls, fitting in early runs, doing some sort of push up routine and not getting nearly as much sleep as I should I feel like I’m not there for updating lately.
It’ll come back. but sleep first.
My Nose
Yesterday my daughter asked if she could touch my nose.
And I said sure.
She rubbed the scar from my Mohs surgery last fall and asked when it was going to heal and look normal.
I had to explain that it was the most healed it likely would be, and that this is what it would look like from now on.
I think she understood but still looked confused.
I mean I think it looks pretty good, but she’s the one who pointed it out
KLD Writing
Every week Marceline has to do a “what I did over the weekend” journal entry at school. Yesterday she chose to write about Kenny Loggins Day.
I’m sure her teacher was confused. But I couldn’t be more proud.
A Good Kenny Loggins Day
I knew it would be a good Kenny Loggins Day from the start.
Edith wanted to “camp out” in the living room with Sam last night. Sometime soon after midnight Sam came to bed to swap places and I moved out there in her place.
It didn’t go well. Between cats and Edith moaning in her sleeping didn’t get much shut eye.
However as soon as Edith started opening her eyes in the morning she asked if it was Kenny Loggins Day. And when I confirmed it was she sang a few lyrics from Return to Pooh Corner.
The day was wonderful. The girls made their own Kenny Loggins Banner.
We hung it across the room from my Kenny Loggins Day banner I had made years ago.
Of course we listened to a lot of Kenny Loggins. The girls still love and listen to Return to Pooh Corner as their sleep music most nights.
And we made cookie cake.
And my sister pointed out that Google recognizes Kenny Loggins Day exists.
Of course that’s due to Google scraping reddit and finding my annual posts.
The day was nice enough that we even got out for a bike ride around the block where the girls knocked on a neighbors door and asked for a friend to play (something we are trying to encourage).
All in all a wonderful Kenny Loggins Day. Couldn’t ask for better.