Thursday, February 5, Friday, February 6, Saturday, February 7, and Sunday, February 8, 2026

Chase seemed better in Thursday, which made Mama and Nanaw happy. They worry about the bug when he’s not feeling well or not in a good mood. After school, Chase told Nanaw that he thought he got a 100 on today’s math test. At Nanaw’s house, Chase studied for his religion test. There are quizlets online for the religion textbook. Chase went through the quizlet twice and got all the answers correct both times. Mama has been making caricatures on ChatGPT, and she sent the two below — very cute. On Friday, Mama had a best friend adventure with Auntie LaLa. Mama took the afternoon off and they went to different bars and restaurants. Then they stayed at a hotel. Mama said they had a wonderful time. On Saturday, when Mama got home from her adventure, she said Chase wasn’t feeling well. He played in his hockey game and they won 4 to 0. When they got home, he said his throat hurt and he got into bed. Mama said he really likes his new electric blanket and that might be one of the reasons he was in bed. Mama said he went to his workout but then did a lot of chilling the rest of the day. For dinner, he wanted Thai House. On Sunday, Chase said his throat was still hurting. He and Daddy went to church, but Chase didn’t play in his hockey game. Daddy went to the game while Mama and Chase stayed home. Mama invited Nanaw over for dinner and the Super Bowl game. Mama fixed roast beef in the crockpot, garlic knots, and gluten free biscuits for Nanaw. Nanaw brought shrimp for Daddy and her. Mama and Chase watched the Super Bowl, and Nanaw worked on Days of Chase in the living room  with them.

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Wednesday, February 4, 2026

On Wednesday morning, Chase didn’t have anything to study for before school. But he will have on Friday. He has a religion then and needs to do as well as he can. He got an 80 on a past test, and he had to try to bring that grade up. His vocabulary packet is also due on Friday. After school today, for homework Chase had an English worksheet and a geography map due tomorrow. He also has a math quiz tomorrow. As he was working, he suddenly went into the bathroom and threw up. He came back and studied a little more, then threw up again. Nanaw is very worried about him and hopes his old stomach problems haven’t started up again. In the evening, she texted Mama, asking how Chase was doing, and Mama texted back: “ He did all his homework, ate soup, laid down for a few minutes and then talked on the phone - maybe to Tuck.  We don’t know what’s going on.  Will asked if anything was bothering him or if he wanted to back off of sports - like is he burned out? He said no, nothing is wrong.  So we don’t know.”

Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Chase was feeling much better on Tuesday morning and was in a much better mood. He ate his regular breakfast but without the chocolate milk. Mama brought a new flavor of Premier Protein for Nanaw to try: Chocolate Strawberry. Nanaw thought it was delicious and told Mama it reminded her of the ice cream they had for Mama's birthday. After school, Chase showed his homework to Nanaw. He had the chapter 1 worksheet for The Hobbit plus several English worksheets about adverbs. He still hasn't done the math assignment he missed from yesterday when he was out. Nanaw will remind him about again tomorrow morning so he can bring his math book home and work on it. After they were finished looking at homework, Chase and Nanaw did Wordle together, as a race. And Chase won! Nanaw is going to have to step up her game to keep up with him. Mama sent a picture of her Copilot Bot group at work to Chase and Nanaw. The three Bots in the group are named Al, Betty and Charlie (for ABC). Mama's outfit was red, she had a picture of Sam on her shirt so she was easily identified as Charlie. Because Nanaw liked the Chocolate Strawberry flavor of Premier Protein for Nanaw, Mama bought her a pack of them as a present -- Yum! 

Monday, February 2, 2026

On Monday morning before school, Chase didn’t feel well so Mama said he should stay home from school — at Nanaw’s. When Chase announced that he could spend the day with her, he gave her a big grin. Later in the morning, he took a short nap, then ate some crackers. Nanaw had to go to a meeting with her broker at Edward Jones and was sorry to leave Chase. When she got home, she fixed chicken noodle soup and saltines for his lunch and then he did his AR reading. Chase and Nanaw had fun playing Wordle together on the two desktop computers in the room Chase calls the computer lab. Chase showed Nanaw how to find the Wordle archive site and then they played that for a while. After 3 p.m., Nanaw drove up to Chase’s school to pick up his class work and homework from the box in front of school. Chase looked it over and said there wasn’t too much and started working on it. There was a math assignment that he couldn’t do because his math book wasn’t included in the materials they sent home. He was going to read the assigned chapter in the religion book in the evening after baseball practice. Hopefully, Chase will feel fine tomorrow and be able to go to school.

Saturday, January 31, and Sunday, February 1, 2026

Saturday was an exciting day for Nanaw. She drove Mama to Chase’s 1 p.m. hockey game at the Fenton rink. This was because Mama and Daddy were going to a surprise birthday party after the game, and Chase was going home with Nanaw. Uncle George and Aunt Sharon came to the game. Mama was in the score keeping box so she didn’t get to sit with the family. Nanaw sat next to Sharon and shared her blanket for sitting on the cold bleacher seats, and they had a nice conversation. It was an exciting, attention-grabbing hockey game, and Chase’s team beat the St. Peter’s team 3 to 1. After Nanaw took Chase to her house, she went to Taco Bell to get lunch for them. Chase had a chicken quesadilla and nachos with cheese. Nanaw had three crunchy tacos supreme. Very yummy. All on his own, Chase asked if he could text Mama to see if he could have a sleepover, and Nanaw said yes. So did Mama! After the party, Mama and Daddy brought Chase’s clothes over plus his trashed chicken wings from Bar Down for his dinner. Trashed means fried twice, according to Mama. I\On Saturday morning, Nanaw had done some rearranging for Chase. She moved a chair into his room and cleared things away from the piano keyboard in the computer lab. On Sunday morning, Daddy picked Chase up for church. Chase had to do double AR reading time on Sunday because Mama didn’t send his AR book to Nanaw’s Saturday night. But that was his only homework. Nanaw thinks Chase’s teachers are giving out less homework to the classes, which us a good thing. They had been buried in homework so less is a good thing. Chase’s team had a 5 p.m. game, which they won 5 to 0. Yay! Mama had Chase send Nanaw a picture. Chase and Mama made garlic bread together, and Mama sent picture. He’s really getting interested in cooking, which is a great thing.

Friday, January 30, 2026

Mama took Chase to school again on Friday morning because he had to be there early for Catholic Schools Week. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, she parked in the far section and saw that they hadn't cleared the snow off that walkway so she had to walk to the end of the parking lot. Fortunately, she was able to find Chase before he started off in the parking lot looking for her car. He told Nanaw how they played volleyball as one of the Catholic Schools activities and that it was fun and he played well. He said because Cole is so tall, he can touch the top of the net without jumping. Nanaw asked him about the talent show and whether any of the crew performed. He said Drew performed in the talent show, playing the piano. Mama came over to Nanaw's house at 4:30 to take Nanaw to Dobbs to pick up the Escape. Dobbs fixed an oil leak for $800.00. Mama brought along Truman and Tee Tee wrapped in a blanket for Chase because he hadn't brought any of the guys to Nanaw's house. Nanaw is going to Chase's hockey game at 12:30 tomorrow, then taking Chase home with her. Mama and Daddy are going to a surprise birthday party at a winery.

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Mama took Chase to school today because he had to be there early to collect money for one of the Catholic Schools Week fundraising projects. She's going to take him to school again on Friday morning. Mama sent Nanaw some pictures of Chase from a visit by some of the Gibault students for Catholic Schools Week. One of the pictures had Chase front and center in the picture -- very cool. Nanaw decided to post it on Facebook. Mr. G. was there and took a picture of Chase with the huge Gibault Hawks mascot and another student. Because Chase told Nanaw that the snow on the walkways on the school parking lot had been cleaned off, she told him she'd be up at the front of the school to meet him. After school, Chase studied for tomorrow's religion test. He used a Quizlet to study, and it seemed really helpful. Then Nanaw quizzed him from the review questions in the religion textbook. He said he was okay for Friday's geography test on China but that he would go over it again.