Saturday, March 14, 2026

Mama texted Nanaw that she thinks Chase had a great time at Top Golf with Brady and other members of the crew last night. She also said that Chase and Tucker saw each other at their workout this morning and discovered that neither of them had anything to do tonight. So Chase asked Mama if they could have a sleepover, and she said yes. Of course, Chase was very excited about that. Tonight Mama was going to dinner with two friends who are in town from Oklahoma and who used to work with her, plus some other former work friends. They were going to Failoni's, an Italian restaurant on Manchester. Nanaw said Mama would of course have pizza, and Mama said yes, unless something else caught her eye. Mama sent Nanaw a picture of Chase playing knee hockey and a picture of Sly. In the afternoon, Nanaw was out running errands, and she stopped off at Chase's house to give Mama the Nancy Drew mystery The Secret of the Old Clock from ThriftBooks that arrived today. She also took along the Wimpy Kid books she bought for Chase. He kept one of them to start reading for AR. Nanaw was happy to see Chase when she dropped by with books. He was playing the keyboard downstairs, and Nanaw stayed with him for a little while to listen. Nanaw asked him about the No Brainer books -- the one from the County Library and the one she bought for Chase. She couldn’t find either of them but Chase said he didn't have them, and they looked in his backpack and on the kitchen table but didn't find them. Nanaw went to the library and asked her friends there if it was possible she'd turned the book in but that the system hadn't checked it in. But that wasn't the case so Nanaw said she'd keep looking. Her two friends are retired teachers who work part-time at the library, and they told her how wonderful the Wimpy Kids books are and that teachers say they accurately represent how crazy and mixed-up schools are and that Nanaw should read them. Chase likes them and that's a good thing. At home Nanaw thought of two places she hadn't looked in for the two missing No Brainer books, and she found both of them -- Yay! The one she bought for Chase was in the little bookcase next to her computer in the dining room The library book was in a stack of newspapers, magazines and books in the living room where Nanaw keeps the things she's going to read or is going to return to the library. So all is well, and Nanaw apologized to Mama and Chase for making them search. She'll also apologize to her library friends the next time she sees them.