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
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.
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.
Yesterday afternoon was a whirlwind.
Edith had preschool until 3:30, then after party til 4 -after party is basically her and a few friends sharing snacks and running around after class is done.
Get home. Throw girls into snow pants, boots, hats, gloves, jackets and back out the door to go sledding. It is something we haven’t done before, but wanted to.
We have snow, but the temperature has been so low (low teens to single digits or less) that we haven’t done it yet this year.
Yesterday though it hovered near 30 degrees. So I wanted them to have that experience, especially since today it is supposed to get near 40, melting much of what is on the ground.
But Marceline has Robotics club at 6.
Thankfully everything is within ten minutes of our home.
Preschool to home – 6 minutes or less.
Sledding Hill – 12 minutes due to construction.
McDonald’s – 6 minutes from the sledding hill.
McDonald’s to home – 10 minutes.
Home to robotics club – 7 minutes.
Somehow we got in 30+ minutes of sledding. The girls went from timid to over the top joy in one ride down the hill. We could’ve stayed for hours. No one else was there, just us. It was a perfect sledding experience.
The McDonald’s we stopped at got us through their drive thru line in under 5 minutes. Crazy fast for after 5 pm. Bonus is that they got some cool little toys in their Happy Meals, they actually remind me of the toys we used to get from Happy Meals when I was a child.
Anyways, made it back home with 15 minutes to scarf down our food before rushing back out the door torobotics club.
Despite my thoughts on how the robotics club is run and the lack of any sort of structure or instruction to the club, Marceline has had a blast playing around with the motors, remotes, and knock off technic pieces.
Without any real guidance she built a small windmill last week, and a remote control car last night. And she gets to keep all that even after the club is done so she can keep building on her own.
It falls over a lot due to being top heavy. But it works and she was zipping it all over the room. She was so proud (I was too).
Felt like cramming a lot into 2 hours in the afternoon. But the girls had a blast.
And I’ll readily admit,I had a blast too. The girls happily screaming running up and sledding down the hill is one of those moments that makes me just feel lucky to be a dad.
I don’t want this to just be a list of music I like, but there are worse things this blog could turn out to be.
Lately, as it’s been stupid cold outside and we have quite the snow build up, at least for Ohio, I’ve been listening to this song in the mornings, or evenings, on repeat.
Thanks to the wonderful Chuck Cleaver (of Wussy fame) for this song with his earlier band.
I pretty much wear the same outfit everyday lately. It’s been extremely cold and they’re being sick for the last week and a half, I’ve been cold inside too.
Years ago Sam bought me for Hanes long sleeve shirts. They’re all the same color dark blue. Normally I put a short sleeve shirt over top this, feeling like I’m a high school student again.
But as I was sick and that didn’t feel warm enough. And a sweater felt too warm. But a long sleeve shirt and a button down shirt over top of it, that was perfect.
Not a look I normally go for but it was the right warmth. So I wore it daily since last Tuesday.
