Thursday, March 7, 2024

When Mama dropped Chase off at Nanaw's house on Thursday morning, Nanaw took Chase into the dining room and showed him a foot-high stack of school papers that he'd done this year. It was just amazing how much schoolwork he has in 6th grade. In the afternoon, Mama called Nanaw to tell her the school secretary had called Mama to tell her that Chase was in the office because his stomach didn't feel good. Nanaw went to pick Chase up, and he seemed better. Back at Nanaw's house, Chase and Nanaw studied for Chase's tests tomorrow; they studied for history and vocab but not DLR and science. They also finished his book report that's due tomorrow. Chase did his math assignment and completed the study guides for science and history; Nanaw wanted Chase to study the study guides but he insisted he'd already studied enough. He said he'd study for the DLR test at home. Nanaw told Mama about Chase not wanting to study the study guides, and Mama said she would have him do the studying, and he did. Mama also told him he had to respect Nanaw, listen to her and do what she says.

Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Another miracle happened at drop-off again this morning. Chase felt fine, no stomach problems, and he went to school with no issues. Yay! After school, Chase and Nanaw did a lot of studying for his four tests on Friday. Nanaw looked at his grades, and now he only has two Bs and the rest are As. First, Nanaw went through his vocabulary workbook, and he only missed two. Then Nanaw quizzed him on the vocabulary words, and he only had trouble with one word: prevail. He changed the size of the font on his book report and also changed the part where he said Will's leg was cut off. Nanaw put a color cartridge in her printer, and Chase printed out the book report pages. His Word Cloud looks cool in color. He still has to draw three pictures, and then he'll be done with the book report. They studied about half of his history vocabulary, and he and Mama finished it in the evening. Nanaw will go over it again tomorrow. Mama came and picked Chase up at five. He and Daddy went to the park to work on catching fly balls.

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

A miracle happened at drop-off time on Tuesday morning. Chase went into school with no complaints, no stomach pains, no vomiting, nothing -- just going into school. Nanaw was so happy. She reported the miracle to Mama on the drop-off call, and Mama was very happy also. Nanaw made a mess in the dining room today, trying to sort through Chase's school papers for the ones she wanted to save to use for school this summer. She had the papers spread all over the floor and got some of the sorting done. Then she decided to stack everything under the computer hutch and work on it some other time. Her new laptop came today, and she spent a lot of time setting it up. She's decided that it's a birthday present for herself for her birthday this Friday. After school, Chase worked on his homework. He had math, religion and science. He didn't bring his vocab assignments home today like Nanaw asked but he promised to bring them home tomorrow and Thursday. He has four out of the five parts of the book report that's due Friday done. There will be a lot of studying on Wednesday after school and in the evening, and Thursday after school and in the evening.

Monday, March 4, 2024

Daddy took Chase to school today to make sure that he went and because Mama went into the office. Nanaw thought Mama wanted her to take Chase on Wednesday but it turns out that it's Tuesday -- and also Wednesday and Thursday. Nanaw will be firm and tell Chase he's going to school. Mama went to talk to someone about her sleep study today and is very happy that she gets to do it at home rather than at the sleep study place. Nanaw picked Chase up from school, and he told her he didn't have any homework. Nanaw tried to get him to work on some of the things that are due this week but he said no, he wanted to play on his phone and on the computer. He had some blueberries and strawberries, a cheese sandwich and a glass of Lactaid milk. He'd been fine, then he threw up and decided he couldn't go to baseball practice. He called Daddy and told him that. Chase wanted to go back to playing on the computer but Nanaw said no. She said they would spend the few minutes they had before it was time to take Chase home working on his book report that's due on Friday. He did the acrostic and the word cloud for one of the characters Luke. He went to hockey practice so that was a good thing.

Sunday, March 3, 2024

Chase and Daddy went to church Sunday morning, and he seemed to be feeling okay. He worked on his history assignment to create information and a poster for a pretend movie about a Revolutionary War hero. He picked Henry Knox, a Founding Father of the U.S., who became the commander of the Army and then Secretary of War, after fighting in several key battles of the war. Mama told Nanaw he had saved part of the report to work on with Nanaw when she came to visit. Nanaw made some suggestions on how Chase could add some information to his report. He did a really good job on it, and Nanaw was proud of what he had done. They talked about his book report, which is due on Friday (Nanaw's birthday!!). They're going to start working on it on Tuesday. Mama and Daddy are going to take Chase to school on Monday and Tuesday to make sure he goes and doesn't stay home because of his stomach. Nanaw will take him to school Wednesday with the same directions. Brady is going to have his birthday party next Saturday at Urban Air (probably the one located in Fairview Heights), and Chase is looking forward to it.

Saturday, March 2, 2024

On Saturday morning, Mama told Nanaw that Sam was having trouble with his back legs and couldn't walk. The vet was all booked and couldn't see him. So Mama and Daddy were going to take him to the emergency vet in Ballwin. She told Nanaw she could come over and visit Chase. Chase played with his Playmobil and watched the hockey channel on TV in the living room. He also played a video game on the TV in Mama's office. Then he came back in the living room and watched TV and took a brief nap. Nanaw brought in Lars, Dylan and Tee Tee to keep him company. Mama sent Nanaw a text saying that Sam has doggie vertigo, and he's going to be fine. Everybody had been very worried about Sam and were so relieved that he was okay. Mama told Nanaw about the fish fry on Friday night. It was at Turner Hall, which is next to the little library park, and the boys went over to play there. The boys were almost the whole lunch table gang -- Chase, Cole, Brady, Hunter, and Drew. Only Joey and Cam were missing. Somehow Chase hurt his ankle so he and Daddy went home early. Mama and Nanaw went on a shopping adventure. First, they went to Best Buy to look at laptops, and then they went to Office Max/Depot so Mama could buy notebooks and pens for herself and other people at work. Evidently, the workers can't get the office supplies they want -- they have to get what's on the approved list. 

Friday, March 1, 2024

Daddy had the day off on Friday so he took Chase to school. Chase said he didn't feel well but Mama and Daddy said he was going to school . 10 a.m., Mama called to say the school secretary had called her and said Chase wasn't feeling well. So Daddy went to pick Chase up and take him to Nanaw's house. He had some schoolwork with him so he worked on that. When he was done, he and Nanaw went over the math test that he got a 33 on. He had skipped one of the problems completely and then missed two problems because he was confused about skewed and symmetrical data sets. Nanaw went to Schnucks's to get bread and cheddar cheese for his lunch and her newspaper. Cheddar cheese is one of the cheeses he can have; the doctor said it's a hard cheese. He can't have meat today and very few cheeses but it worked out for him to have cheddar. If the lactose-free diet doesn't help Chase's stomach, Daddy and Mama are going to try a gluten-free diet. For a while, Chase played in his room with the Playmobil and watched a hockey game on his TV. He also played on the computer in the computer lab and played on his phone and the car phone. Daddy put an app on his phone that limits Chase's screen time. It will be interesting to see how that works out.