Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Chase has been very anxious for his Easter present Nova hockey thing to arrive and has been giving Nanaw instructions on what to do with it when it arrives. She's always supposed to bring it in the house from off the porch, to protect it from any rain. Sometimes he tells her to open it and other times not. It was scheduled to arrive Wednesday of this week but it arrived early this evening, Tuesday. On the way back from taking Chase home, Nanaw saw a UPS truck stopped in her subdivision, and she had the idea maybe it was delivering the Nova hockey thing. When she got home, she started checking her mail and saw that she had an email from Nova Hockey. But it was in French. Nanaw knows a little French from school but not enough to read the email so she had Google translate it, and it said the hockey thing had arrived. Nanaw called Daddy to see if it was all right to bring it over to their house, and he said yes. Daddy had Chase put it together himself with minimal help from Daddy -- a very interesting episode, but Chase did well. Chase took it upstairs to play with it in the kitchen, and Nanaw watched for a while before going home. Tomorrow, Nanaw will report on the mystery of the missing math worksheet.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Chase wanted to ride to school in the Bronco so that's vehicle they took. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, they gave Cole a ride home. His dad had surgery and was still in recovery so his mom asked Nanaw to give him a ride home. The boys sat in the back set playing on their phones, having fun and making a lot of noise. At Nanaw's house, Chase had his snack: Skinny Pop popcorn, Lactaid chocolate milk. A few blueberries, a couple strawberries, and some Mike & Ike candy. He read through his English notes for the test tomorrow. He said there really wasn't a way for Nanaw to ask questions or help him study. Nanaw read through the notes and learned lots she didn't know about the four types of conjunctions. Nanaw asked him to please read over the notes again this evening. Nanaw did the 16 problems of Chase's math. It's more of the problem finding the area of various polygons. Over the weekend , Chase learned how to do these kinds of problems. When Nanaw took Chase home, he told Daddy he would like to play Wiffle ball, and Daddy said they probably would. When Nanaw got home, she discovered that Chase had forgotten his phone so she took it to his house.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

Chase and Daddy went to church on Sunday morning. Mama, Uncle Mike, Aunt Becky and Nanaw went to the Cardinals' baseball, using the tickets the grandkids game them as a Christmas present. The tickets also included food and drinks. There was a giveaway of funny-looking FredBird hats. Chase and Daddy couldn't go because of Chase's baseball tournament. At 4 p.m., they went to Edwardsville for another one of Chase's baseball tournament games. The Cardinals lost the base ball game, and Chase's team lost their game. Daddy and Chase went over his science materials for the test on Monday. After Chase and Daddy got back from Edwardsville, Nanaw came over to visit Chase, and Mama got Jimmy John's for their dinner. She also bought a loaf of Jimmy John's bread for Chase that Chase was so happy about. He shared it with Nanaw, and it was delicious. After dinner, Chase and Nanaw went downstairs, and Nanaw watched Chase play knee hockey. Then Nanaw went home to watch her Sunday night TV shows.

Saturday, April 20, 2024

Mama went to the grocery store early on Saturday morning but she still brought Chase over to Nanaw's house at 9:30 a.m.. Chase had a boatload of homework to do. While Chase did his homework, Nanaw went to Sunset Ford to do all the paper work on the Bronco sport and bring it home. As for Chase's homework, the first thing he did was the persuasive essay about the field trip to the Basilica and the Saint Louis Art Museum. When he finished writing the four paragraphs, Nanaw proofread it for him. Next, he worked on the history study guide notes for the history test on Wednesday, April 24. After that, he checked on the shipping of the Nova hockey thing and found that it is expected to arrive Wednesday, April 24. He was sad that he still had to wait a long time for it to come. The final thing Nanaw and Chase did was to work on his math. Nanaw did three of the six problems but wasn't sure she got them right. And she wasn't sure about Chase's answers. In the evening, Nanaw went over to Chase's house and took pictures of the problems in the math book to see if she could figure out how to do them. Nanaw took Chase home at 3 p.m. so he could get ready for the baseball tournament game at 6 p.m. His team won the game 14 to 2. Mama said Chase grounded out a couple of times but made a great play at second base, and the other Chase hit a homerun. Mama said Chase's team is the number one seed in the gold bracket so they play at 4 tomorrow and if they win, they play at 6. So Chase and Daddy won't be able to go to the Cardinals' baseball game Sunday afternoon. It will just be Mama, Nanaw, Uncle Mike and Aunt Becky. Mama talked to Cole's mom about the science stuff Chase needs, and Tanya said she would send it tomorrow.

Friday, April 19, 2024

When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he told her that today was Papa John's Pizza Day at school and that the cheese pizza had been really good. Then he remembered that he had forgotten his history notebook with the study guide that is due Monday. So he said he had to go back in to school to get it. That's the first time he wanted to go back in school. On Saturday, he discovered that he'd forgotten his science stuff. He texted all of the guys in his crew, and Drew said he'd send the stuff but it hadn't arrived by Saturday evening. Chase has a rule that he doesn't do homework on Friday afternoons after school. Uncle Mike came over to cut the grass, and then to take Nanaw to Sunset Ford so she could buy a beautiful blue Bronco Sport. She has to wait until Saturday to get it because Sunset closes at 7 p.m. Mama had picked Chase up at 4:15 to get ready for the baseball tournament. His team won the game 14 to 1. After the game, some of the team and parents went to Buffalo Wild Wings for dinner. Chase had cheese curds, and he took a Lactaid before he ate them. He and his teammates played together after they'd finished eating, and Chase said he had a good time.

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Chase has been anxiously awaiting the present Nanaw bought him for Easter: a Nova hockey set. Nanaw doesn't think he has ever anticipated anything quite this much. It has a net, a goalie, hockey sticks, balls and pucks. They ordered it two weeks before Easter, thinking it would come in time but it didn't. Nanaw finally contacted customer service to check on it, and they said it would arrive in California on Tuesday of this week and would be shipped out Wednesday or Thursday. Chase thinks it's going to be delivered immediately, no matter what Nanaw says or how she tries to explain that shipping takes longer than a day or two. Chase emailed Nanaw today and texted her tonight, checking to see if it arrived. Nanaw promised to keep checking. After school, Chase studied his DLR for a quiz tomorrow, and then he and Nanaw studied for his vocabulary test tomorrow. He forgot to tell Daddy they had to study the vocabulary so Mama asked Nanaw to go over the words again with Chase in the morning. In the evening, Mama had gone to the hospital to visit Auntie LaLa.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Chase has been in the best mood for the last week or ten days, making Nanaw very happy. Nanaw can't talk to Mama about Chase's good mood because Mama will say that talking about it will jinx it. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school on Wednesday afternoon, it turned out that he had forgotten to bring his vocabulary book home so he can study for the quiz on Friday. He was really good about having to go back into school to get the book. He used to put up a huge fuss whenever he had to go back for something. When they got to Nanaw's house, Chase did some more problems from the math test, and he did a good job on them. After he was done with the math problems, he and Nanaw studied the vocabulary. He made quite a few mistakes on the pages where he had to answer questions and fill in spaces with the vocabulary words. So Nanaw was thinking that he would have problems with the definitions for the vocabulary words but he did better than Nanaw expected. Tomorrow afternoon they'll study the words the hard way where Nanaw gives him the word, and Chase gives her the definition.