A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1.A Beautiful Day and a Visit to the Park. The boys got new bikes from Grandma and Papa for Christmas and with our recent snow storms, they haven’t been able to try them out. One of their last days of Christmas break, we took…
Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of Coffee Break 2021–A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. A second Christmas. Every year we travel to Kansas the day after Christmas to enjoy celebrating with my parents and my sister and brother-in-law (and sometimes some of their kids). My Mom…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1.The North Pole. One of our favorite Christmas time traditions is to visit the North Pole. Back in the 1950’s, our city built a children’s Christmas wonderland. There are fun rides, food, and yes–the Big Guy–Santa. This is our 5th year going–and even with a…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. All done with school! The 2nd quarter of school has officially ended and my boys are on Christmas break. Both of them are VERY happy to be done with all their work. For their last week Grayson finished a science project–a diorama of…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Snow and SLEDDING! We had a few fun things happen this week: my parents came for a visit, it snowed and we got to go sledding. It wasn’t much snow and it was SO cold, but my Mom, the boys and I to…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Is it a cold or is it Covid? I honestly don’t know if the illness we have passed around this past week has been just a regular ole every day cold or if it’s the virus that’s all the rage right now–COVID-19. To…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. The outside décor. Every year there is a battle in the Glenn household and every year it results in the same outcome. Super Rockstar declares that this is THE LAST YEAR he will be putting up Christmas lights on our house. There is…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1.A construction snafu. We have been working on re-doing our backyard this whole year and putting a deck in has been the final frontier. Because of Covid –we have found that everyone in the construction business is extremely busy and it’s taking A LOT…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. Physical Education–E-Learning Style. Doing P.E. online has not been very effective in helping my boys get their wiggles out, so this past week I sent them outside for the lulls in between their classes. I’m pretty sure trampoline pillow fights are not an…
A weekly list of things accomplished, enjoyed, learned, tried and remembered. 1. The truck. While everyone else in our nation was glued to their TV’s anxiously awaiting election results, we were up in Denver buying a new-to-us truck for Super Rockstar. Anyone who knows Super Rockstar knows how much he loved his last truck. I…