Tuesday, March 3 and Wednesday, March 4, 2026

On Tuesday, Nanaw offered Chase the new kind of protein bars Mama bought for his breakfast but he didn't want to try them yet -- he wanted his regular ones. Nanaw reminded Chase that his chapter 6 Hobbit worksheet was due on Tuesday and that he should bring home his science study material for the science terms quiz on Wednesday. After school, Chase had his healthy snack of the Premier protein drink, grapes and strawberries, cashews and pumpkin and sunflower seeds. He requested Blue Bunny vanilla ice cream and root beer after his healthy snack. For homework, in addition to studying for the science quiz,  he had an English worksheet and for history he had to work on an Iran slideshow. The teacher had switched from the regular history assignment to an Iran assignment because of the military attacks going on there. Chase and Nanaw went into his room and went over the list of disease-related terms several times. On Wednesday morning, they went over the terms again twice, and Chase seemed to know them. When Nanaw picked him up, he said he thought he only missed two of them but when they checked Facts they saw that he got 28 out of 28 so he didn't miss any. So that was super. But he ended up with math troubles. His grade has gone down to a 90 from a 98 because he missed several assignments from when he was sick. He said he didn't receive the assignments and the teacher said it was his responsibility to find them out for himself. He had big red missing announcements on Facts. This is a real shame because he had been doing an excellent job in math before this happened.

Saturday, February 28, Sunday March 1, and Monday, March 2, 2026

Chase had an exciting adventure on Saturday. His friend Tucker invited him for a sleepover. Chase met Tucker years ago when they played baseball together in Columbia. They met up again, and Tucker spent last Halloween with Chase and the crew trick or treating and having a sleepover. On Saturday, Chase went to Tucker's house around 3 p.m. in the afternoon and stayed till Sunday around noon when Mama picked him up. Chase and Tucker had pizza for dinner and played a lot of computer games together. They stayed up till 4:30 a.m. or 5 a.m. so they didn't get much sleep but had a lot of fun. Saturday was the night of the dinner auction, and Chase usually stays at Nanaw's house while Mama and Daddy go to the dinner auction. Nanaw was fine with Tucker's invitation to Chase because she knew how much fun he'd have. Chase was supposed to have another sleepover with the crew at Cole's house on Sunday but that didn't work out. So Mama said Chase could have a sleepover at Nanaw's, which made Nanaw extremely happy. Mama brought Chase and all his guys over to Nanaw's house about 4:30 on Sunday evening. Chase wanted Sonic for dinner so Nanaw went to get it and discovered that Sonic's electricity was out so she came back home to see what Chase wanted for dinner. They settled on Domino's pizza and stuffed cheesy bread, and Nanaw went to pick it up, which was an adventure for her because she'd never done that before. Chase loved the pizza and cheesy bread and said it was the best he'd ever had. They watched TV in the living room and in Chase's room and didn't go to bed until midnight. In the middle of the evening, Chase had a snack of pizza and cheesy bread that Nanaw heated up in the toaster oven. Chase slept till 8:30 on Monday morning, very late for him. During the day, they had two sessions for homework and AR reading, one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon. Chase did lots of AR reading and did his vocabulary packet and the chapter 6 Hobbit worksheet. Nanaw was very proud of him and how well he did. For lunch, Chase did a very innovative thing he'd heard about on YouTube. He put a glass of water in the microwave with the pizza and cheesy bread to heat them up and make it like they were fresh again, and it worked! Nanaw needs to remember to tell Mama about it. He told Nanaw what a great sleepover it had been, which made Nanaw very happy.

Friday, February 27, 2026

 On Friday morning, Chase and Nanaw did more studying for his Friday science test. Once again they studied the terms and the study review pages in the textbook. They also went through the packet on chapter 4 and found some things they hadn’t studied. Chase was in a good mood about all the studying they’d done and said he felt ready for the test. When Nanaw picked Chase up from school, he said he thought he'd done well on the geography test and the science test. She told him about a science quiz next Wednesday. On his own, Chase volunteered to go back into school for his science textbook. But when he tried to go back in the school, he discovered they had already closed the door and he couldn’t get back in. At Nanaw’s house, Chase helped Nanaw clear away a bunch of boxes in the basement. In the evening, Mama, Daddy and Chase went to watch an Affton hockey game.

Wednesday, February 25, and Thursday, February 26, 2026

On Wednesday, Nanaw and Uncle Mike went out to check on the little house. They took the long way around Aspenhof so Uncle Mike could see the houses on the other side. They got back home at 2:15 in plenty of time for Nanaw to pick Chase up from school. On the way home, Chase told Nanaw they could study the material for tomorrow’s confirmation test when they got home. They went over the things Chase was supposed to memorize. He did fairly well with them, and said he’d go over them again tonight after his workout and hitting practice. Nanaw will have him run through them tomorrow morning before school. Mama was going to have dinner tonight with Aunt Becca at Mariachi, a. Mexican restaurant in Millstadt. On Thursday morning, Chase and Nanaw studied for Thursday's confirmation test, and he seemed to know the material. When Nanaw picked him up from school, he said he thought he got an 87 on the test. They had hoped for a higher grade to bring up his current C in his religion class. At Nanaw's house, Chase studied for  Friday's science test and geography test. Hopefully he'll do well on the tests. He has a C in science and would like to bring that grade up. After he finished studying, Chase and Nanaw went into his room, and Chase played pencil hockey. Nanaw went over the science terms definitions with Chase, and he seemed to know them but he says that sometimes things just go out of his head. 

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

On Tuesday morning, Nanaw gave Chase the notes she'd found for his AR book, Diper Overlode. While he studied them, she found the flashcards for the book on Quizlet and had him go over some of them on the computer in the computer lab. When she picked him up from school, she had him go through all 24 of them on her iPad. So now he should be ready to take the AR test when he wants to. Nanaw was over at Chase's house while the cleaning lady was at her house, and she looked at Chase's books and saw that he has at least three more Diary of a Wimpy Kid books, which might get him through AR books for the rest of the year -- as long as he hasn't already read them for AR. His friend Tuck asked him to come for a sleepover on Saturday night, while Mama and Daddy are at the Dinner Auction. Chase had planned to spend the night. at Nanaw's but wanted to go  to Tuck's instead. Nanaw was okay with that because she knew how much fun he'd have with Tuck. Mama said Chase could stay at Nanaw's another time. He's going to have a sleepover at Cole's on Sunday night because Monday is a school holiday. At four, Nanaw took Chase to his ortho appointment. Evidently, one of is teeth isn't coming in correctly so for the next appointment, Mama or Daddy will have to take him so the orthodontist can talk to them.

 

Saturday, February 21, Sunday, February 22, and Monday, February 23, 2026

Mama sent the first picture to Nanaw of all the boys on Chase's hockey team. They're wearing tee shirts one of the hockey moms mad for them, showing Coach Dave with his hands on his head. This is something he does a lot. Everybody loves Coach Dave, and Chase and Mama are going to miss him a lot. Coach Dave and Mama went to high school together. The fourth pictures shows the work Nanaw's next-door neighbor did on Saturday, clearing out the brush in back of his house, to make a back play yard for his four kids. Chase had a hockey game in the Blue Note tournament on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. The team won, 4 to 2, which meant they got to play in a championship game on Sunday. They lost their game on Sunday, which meant they were out of the tournament. Chase is almost done with Affton hockey. He's going to play on the Columbia, IL hockey team when the season starts later this year. He's sad about Affton being over but looking forward to a new team and new teammates. Nanaw went over to Chase's house for dinner on Sunday evening. Mama made crunchy tacos supreme (that means with sour cream), and she and Chase made his package of Fiesta Rice from his class's special project last week. The students gathered in the Garden Room downstairs in the church and put together thousands of packets of a rice dinner called Fiesta Rice. They each got to take home one packet. The other packets were going to be sent to Guatemala as part of a project called Kids Against Hunger. (Nanaw kept mistakenly calling it Kids For Hunger and kept getting in trouble with Chase for doing that!!) On Monday after school, Chase and Nanaw worked in his room on his vocabulary packet. He never did find his original packet (the one he accused Nanaw of losing!), and he had to ask the teacher for another copy -- which must have been hard for him to do because he doesn't much like to talk to his teachers. He also brought home the worksheet for chapter 6 of The Hobbit so that Nanaw could make a copy for herself. He finished reading his AR book entitled Diper Overlode and will probably take the test sometime this week. Nanaw will look for some study material for him. He's has another Diary of a Wimpy Kid book at his house that he's going to read for his next AR book. This one is entitled No Brainer, and Nanaw will check it out of the county library in case she wants to see what he's reading.

Tuesday, February 17, Wednesday, February 18, Thursday, February 19, and February 20, 2026

Chase had a rough week, trying to get caught up with schoolwork and homework from being out three days last week. He worked hard to do all the assignments but unfortunately some of them were late and some of them he forget to turn in. So his grades are suffering a bit. He still has five As or A-s but he has three Cs, and he doesn't like that. The Cs are in Religion, Science and Geography. Geography was a surprise because he usually has As in that subject. But evidently he forgot to turn in one of the assignments and another one was late. But he says he'll work hard and get his grades back to where he wants them to be. On Tuesday night, Chase had a sleepover at Nanaw's house because Daddy was taking Mama to a procedure at St. Clare hospital very early on Wednesday morning. Chase had a workout before he came to Nanaw's. Nanaw had gone to Sonic to get pretzel twists, onion rings and a Sonic Blast with M&Ms for his dinner -- he ate every bite. On Wednesday, Nanaw went to pick up Mama from St. Clare, and then brought her Taco Bell for lunch. Chase didn't eat very much while he was sick, and he still doesn't have his appetite back so Nanaw is going to wait until the end of February to weigh and measure him rather than doing it at the regular time in the middle of February. On Thursday, Chase was excited when he got out of school and didn't have any homework. Nanaw gave him lots of fruit for his snack (that's one of his Lent things). He played pencil hockey in his room and watched the Olympics -- women's skating was an activity he watched and one of the skaters was the first US woman to win a gold medal since 2002, and Chase was excited about that. Two mysteries of missing things happened on Friday. The first one was that he lost the charging cord for his Chromebook so Mama was going to order a new one. The second one is that he can't find the Chapter 22 vocab packet. He told Nanaw it was in his agenda so she was going to make a copy of it but it wasn't there. Chase said she must have lost it because he put it there. Nanaw said she never saw it so now that's the mystery and also Chase has to figure out how to get another copy so he can do the assignment. His hockey team has a game on Friday night in the Blue Note tournament. Mama and Chase were both watching the US hockey team play in the Olympics and were very excited about it.